Turns out GhostWire: Tokyo – that game whose gameplay reveal trailer from the PS5 event a few weeks back is probably still fresh in your mind, and that looked a little like a horror game – ain’t really supposed to be a horror game after all.
This is kinda weird news, because its trailers thus far have depicted suitably creepy things like headless Japanese schoolgirls and some sort of black spidery-haired apparition. “Godfather of horror” Shinji Mikami – founder of the game’s development studio Tango Gameworks – also occupies an executive producer role for the game.
This of course planted more seeds of expectation in us horror fans who thought GhostWire: Tokyo would join the ranks of survival horrors like The Evil Within or Resident Evil – which Mikami himself worked on.
According to a recent IGN interview with the game’s creative director Kenji Kimura, however, GhostWire: Tokyo is officially being shipped as more of an action-adventure game than anything else. Kimura had the following to say on the matter:
