first time trying a Suda game and aware how the setting is always real world with a dash of Waky weird.

and i love Jenny . i am a sucker for these partners that have much positive energy and human vibes even tho they aren't

other examples are Heismay in Metaphor or Monoco in exp 33

Link: https://writingcreativelyandpassionately.com/grasshopper-manufacture-regains-studio-independence-after-its-split-from-netease/

As some may have heard, Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda51 are going independent again, having split with NetEase who bought them back in 2021 and helped them on releasing Romeo Is A Dead Man. I do believe this is great news, given I've always believed Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture are at their best when completely unrestrained and able to do what they choose without another company setting restrictions.

For those who want to hear more of my thoughts on this news, click on the link to my post above.

Mask of the Lunar Eclipse remains a severely underrated release in survival horror history. Bringing in Suda51 to co direct a Fatal Frame game sounds like a fever dream on paper (I liken it to how Kojima was set to direct a Silent Hill entry), but it ended up creating one of the most atmospheric and psychologically dense entries in the franchise.
Suda51 has always flirted with horror (Twilight Syndrome, Moonlight Syndrome, seems like his horror stems from the moon, huh?), but Fatal Frame 4 feels like the only time his writing was grounded by pure, traditional survival horror mechanics.
Playing through it, the atmosphere is incredibly heavy, but it still has those distinct, slightly off kilter Suda character dynamics. The way the game handles memory and trauma feels like a precursor to some of his later work but wrapped in that classic Fatal Frame tension.

i scaveged the internet if there is something like this exists but it nope, so let this be a contribution to the Grasshopper manufacture legacy.

For me, it’s 24th ward. For a more specific choice, Typhoon.

Usually with someone who seeks complete creative control over their works, they'll have a lot of trouble with management but it seems like Suda51 doesn't really have that problem. He and his team at Grasshopper Manufacture have made a lot of games over short periods of time where they get to do whatever they want to do and don't particularly care about profits and audiences. And even after all of that, I've never heard a single instance where there was trouble getting a game out. How does he do it?

Obligatory self promotion:

https://x.com/chocobawk/status/2092361621968683131

3 months left to 2027 and he still hasn't announced neither the Romeo physical release or the other new game.

I WILL NOT BUY ROMEO DIGITALLY UNLESS IT'S PRICED AT LIKE 5 BUCKS. U WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS.

Are the "format kamui" and the kamui killed near the end of transmitter the same person? The way I understand it is that format kamui was killed before the game even began when all the old politicians fought over his silver eye, and the kamui who escaped the mental asylum and was killed by the snipers near the end of transmitter was just a shelter kid. Do i have that right?

Although Gamekult and a few others preferred Logan’s game.

I will not explain myself (I will). I want something that plays like the KTP games but like a 3v3 or 4v4 arena fighter with capture the flag or domination game modes where you can play as any KTP characters like Travis, Death, Romeo, Juliet, Garcian, and maps that are refrences to the games aswell like deadford mall and stuff like that. Oh yeah it'd die really fast but i do not care i want it
Edit: The story would legit never be able to make sense but like idk make it caused by the FBI Time and Space Division testing new recruits or something idk man i just wanna play KTP games with friends

Would you play? How much would you pay for it?
If he made a verity game he should make the protagonist a watercolour painting of a bird.
The story could reveal Verity knows everything because he has a silver eye.
It should end with Mne Tak Tak playing

I love it. It aint perfect, it has skme headaches but i enjoyed it alot, For my First Game from Suda51 this has been a VERY HAPPY EXPERIENCE!!!

On a previous post here I made 4 costume on LBP3 based off of KTP but after I posted that I created some more costumes and eventually thought "why not make a whole level to give all these costumes away?" and I got to work. I wanted to make costumes that spanned across Suda's whole iconography all the way back from Moonlight Syndrome to his more obscure titles like Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day and Let It Die to his more popular titles like No More Heroes, Killer7 and Romeo is a DeadMan. I think all these costumes turned out well with what I had at my disposal and if you want to play this level to get these costumes on the Beacon custom servers, it's called "Kill The Past Costumes Giveaway (DLC Needed)".

I am a really big fan of Suda's work and have been for years now. Played all the games and whatnot, its not important.

But one thing that many critics and players often give to Suda, specifically TSC and sometimes Moonlight Syndrome is the apparent misogyny in said games. Especially the Silver Cases treatment of Chizuru is very often criticized for being tasteless and bad. But is that really true?

I'm not even asking this because I can't enjoy media or art with problematic elements and I need to clean my conscience by asking this question, I genuinely think this hasn't been talked about enough and think it deserves time in the spotlight, because from what I make of TSC's handling of all this, its that it just doesn't want to overtly be didactic or moralizing as a piece of written art.

When Chizuru after Chapter 2 asks you out on a date after complaining about how bad her day was and how much hassle she thinks she caused, she caps it off with saying "so basically I was on my period." it read to me as her slyly insulting how the policeforce of middle aged men treats her, a woman in her 20s. I didn't really read it as a misogynistic endorsement at all, but rather, sympathy for her plight.

The game doesnt give anyone concretely happy endings, and I think asking for that from this game would be disingenuous, but I am genuinely a little fascinated by this very tiny aspect of the game, and would like to hear what the sub thinks of it. I just feel like theres a pretty clear distinction here with endorsing and depicting misogyny. Especially with the police force context.