You’ll Enjoy Being A Ghost In Murdered:SS

After Wolfenstein and Watch Dogs, the next title on the release date schedule is Square Enix‘s Murdered: Soul Suspect, which has a really intriguing premise: the main character is Ronan O’Connor, a detective in Salem who gets brutally killed during one of his investigations. That is not the end for Ronan, though, as he becomes a ghost dedicated to solving his own murder.

 

As you can guess at this point, this is not your average action/adventure game. Murdered: Soul Suspect has a huge focus on mystery solving rather than combat, which surely is a nice change from the majority of games released nowadays. In a video interview with Connected Digital World, Executive Producer Naoto Sugiyama explained that the team added many interactions with the specific purpose of making the “ghost experience” truly enjoyable:

We get asked a lot the question about longevity. It varies so much that it’s so hard to tell the average number of hours, so it really depends on how you play this game. If you rush through, you’re definitely going to finish it sooner, but there’s so many things you can interact with in the world - that’s actually one of the strong, unique points of the title. Many narrative driven games in the mystery solving genre don’t let the player interact a lot with the game world, but we wanted people to enjoy being a ghost and doing ghostly things. We have a lot of things that, if you do those interactions, it’s going to take a lot of time; we encourage to do it as much as possible, because it is going to make your experience richer.

It’s not like being a ghost completely shelters Ronan from dangers, though. There are very nasty demons who will be looking for him, and you’ll have to try and avoid them as much as possible, because they are very strong once engaged.

We definitely wanted to have a threat. We didn’t want to have a ghost taking a sweet time and relax; we wanted that place dangerous, to create tension. Combat is sort of stealtish, since these guys are so overwhelming; once you’re found, it’s so hard to get away. You’ll have to make sure to understand the behave patterns and then make a strategy to take them down or just walk away.

Murdered: Soul Suspect is out on June 3rd (North America) and 6th (Europe) for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and PS4.