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Keiichirō Toyama's Bokeh Game Studio Unveils Slitterhead Horror Game's Trailer

Keiichirō Toyama's new company Bokeh Game Studio unveiled a trailer for the studio's upcoming horror game during The Game Awards event on Thursday. The trailer reveals the game's Slitterhead title, and also reveals that Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka is composing the game's music.

The game is slated for 2023 as the studio's first title.

IGN had previously reported that the game would be a horror action-adventure game. The website reported that the game "will include 'battles and story elements' in the kind of richly authored worlds you might recognize from [Toyama's] games at Sony's Japan Studio and Konami." Toyama also told the website, "If anything, this will be more of a horror-oriented game. But we will focus on making this a broader entertainment experience, rather than a hardcore horror game.”

PC will be the game's lead platform, but the studio is planning to release the game for multiple platforms. The studio is currently beginning prototype development, and a "fairly large" team is working on the game.

Toyama announced on December 3 that he had left Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio alongside colleagues Kazunobu Sato and Junya Okura to found Bokeh Game Studio.

Toyama is best known for directing the first Silent Hill game by Konami, and subsequently developing the Siren horror game series. He also directed both Gravity Rush games. Sato and Okura both worked alongside Toyama in the Siren series as lead character designer and lead game designer respectively, and Sato also worked as producer of The Last Guardian. Okura was also lead game designer on the Gravity Rush series.

Sources: The Game Awards live stream, Bokeh Game Studio's YouTube channel