Slitterhead set tongues wagging when it was officially unveiled at the Game Awards in December 2021. As the debut project of Bokeh Game Studio, the nightmarish venture is being masterminded by Keiichiro Toyama – the creator of Silent Hill and the Siren series – and will explore themes of widespread parasitic infection, shambling brain-dead monsters, and stomach-turning violence. We weren't shown much, and we've not seen much more since, but Slitterhead upon reveal screamed pure late '90s/early 2000s survival horror.
With esteemed ex-Team Silent composer Akira Yamaoka in tow, the parallels between Toyama's most famous dimension-straddling town seemed obviously – but after seeing its latest snippet of early in-development combat footage, I reckon Slitterhead looks more like something from the world of Parasite Eve than Silent Hill. And that's no bad thing at all.
