Valentine’s Day Bloodbath

Writer 110 Industries has introduced that its dopey-looking action-adventure Wished: Lifeless has been hit with an unlucky delay and can now not meet its preliminary 2022 launch window. It’s going to now launch on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms February 14, 2023.

It has been a sizzling minute since we final talked about Wished: Lifeless, however for these of you but to listen to of this quirky little launch, developer Soliel is making a delightfully po-faced motion title that’s seemingly absolutely coming to phrases with its personal sense of dramatic and technical clunkiness. Gamers step into the finely-hones biceps of Hong Kong cop Lt. Hannah Stone, whose black ops police unit try to uncover and put an finish to a harmful company conspiracy in a dystopian, futuristic tackle the capital metropolis.

Whereas that may all sound slightly by-the-numbers and rote, it seems that Wished: Lifeless is definitely leaning into its personal Eighties bullshit, providing up cardboard characters, drained motion film tropes, and lashings upon lashings of unashamed visceral violence to energy its paper-thin storytelling. Using Lt. Stone’s mastery of firearms, bladed weapons, explosives, and another instrument she will be able to lay her arms on, gamers will wreak havoc all through the syndicate, leaving a path of guts and viscera of their wake.

And when not decapitating gangsters, or disemboweling mercenaries, gamers may take day trip with any variety of facet actions, together with gacha video games, karaoke, and a few ’90s arcade motion. As you may see from IGN’s trailer above — which options old-school U.S. cock rock, Asian influences, white-ass characters, anime cutscenes, FMV commercials, goofy dialogue, and even a random close-up of a cat — Wished: Lifeless is a fucking practice wreck of design cultures and world affect.

Will this bewildering-looking launch maintain it collectively to offer a pleasant dose of satire, or will it merely be blissfully unaware that it’s being laughed at, and never with? I suppose we’ll discover out come spring, when Wished: Lifeless launches, February 14, on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.