What’s that behind you, Pippa? Oh, if only that flashlight worked.
You may not have heard of horror game specialist Psychoz Interactive, creator of iOS zombie shooter Dead Strike – the number 1 downloaded game in Japan, when it launched in 2010 – but Nintendo has. Psychoz has been given the go-ahead to produce its survival horror title, Forgotten Memories, for the Wii U. Have a look at the teaser video and ask yourself: would you want to be the one who has to rescue Pippa?
This news comes at the same time that Nintendo’s financials reveal sales of only 390,000 Wii U units since Christmas. Nintendo announced that part of its strategy to revitalize Wii U sales was to “proactively [release] key Nintendo titles from the second half of this year through next year” but, if Psychoz’s announcement is any indication, that might not be all Nintendo intends to do.
As for the game itself, not much is known about Forgotten Memories yet. You play as Inspector Rose Hawkins, in search of a missing girl who seems to have ended up in abandoned Walker Psychiatric Hospital. As to what happens next, you’ll have to wait until later this year to find out.
Psychoz’s Georges Paz is overjoyed, and working hard to make his projected summer 2013 Wii U release date. “Wii U is a strong piece of hardware,” Paz Tweeted. “Lot of memory and modern GPU = win win!” Certainly survival horror seems to have a decent chance on the Wii U console; its launch title ZombiU was well received, and made interesting use of its Gamepad bug-out bag. If Forgotten Memories does as well, survival horror could be in for a renaissance on this console.
Source: Forgotten Memories
