Grasshopper Manufacture has introduced that it is going to be exhibiting one other Grasshopper Direct subsequent week.
The presentation will happen on Friday, December 5 at 10am Japan time on the Grasshopper Archives YouTube channel. For Western viewers, that interprets to the next instances:
- PST – 5pm on Thursday, December 4
- EST – 8pm on Thursday, December 4
- GMT – 1am on Friday, December 5
In line with Grasshopper, the occasion will focus primarily on the studio’s upcoming sci-fi motion recreation Romeo is a Useless Man.
“Set to launch on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X/S in 2026, the presentation can even share a behind-the-scenes take a look at the sport’s improvement, along with by no means earlier than seen gameplay,” it says.
Romeo is a Useless Man is described because the No Extra Heroes studio’s “bloodiest motion recreation but”. A trailer for the sport debuted throughout PlayStation’s State of Play in June and confirmed protagonist Romeo swapping between weapons and swords, utilizing enemies’ powers towards them, in a setup during which gamers should soar backwards and forwards between the actual world and subspace.
Grasshopper says gamers ought to count on “tremendous bloody motion, loopy twists and turns to blow gamers’ minds, and a complete mess of kinda-stereotypical gimmicks – all rolled into one wild journey”.
This would be the third Grasshopper Direct presentation from the studio, following earlier showcases in 2023 and 2024.
The first Grasshopper Direct was launched in June 2023 to rejoice the studio’s twenty fifth anniversary and confirmed footage from Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered.
The second Grasshopper Direct, in July 2024, gave a deeper dive into the sport and featured a dialogue with Suda51, Shinji Mikami and different friends.
Chatting with VGC in 2023, Grasshopper’s artistic lead, Suda, stated the studio had no plans to dilute the content material of its future video games to keep away from controversy.
“Whereas I don’t purposely got down to put a lot of grownup themes or risque themes into the video games, on the identical time I don’t actually attempt to maintain again on something both,” he stated. “If I believe that is how a personality would discuss or look naturally, then that’s what it’s going to be like.”
