EXCLUSIVE: Early Kemuri Art and Details Revealed, Will be Non-Linear but Not a 'Vast Open World' - Fan Fest 2024 - IGN
Unseen has released a new video taking a closer look at Kemuri, the "new supernatural online cooperative action PvE game" by Ikumi Nakamura.
EXCLUSIVE: Early Kemuri Art and Details Revealed, Will be Non-Linear but Not a 'Vast Open World' - Fan Fest 2024
New behind-the-scenes video reveals Ikumi Nakamura's vision for beautiful new action game.
Unseen, the independent studio founded by former Ghostwire Tokyo developer Ikumi Nakamura, has released a brand-new behind-the-scenes featurette that sheds additional light on the studio's first game, Kemuri. As revealed exclusively on IGN as part of Fan Fest 2024, the featurette introduces fans to some of the international team behind Kemuri and the various ways they are bringing Nakamura's vision to life.The featurette, which you can watch above, is packed with intriguing concept art and early animation, much of it focusing specifically on the yokai as both foes and potential allies within Kemuri.
"Kemuri is a supernatural online cooperative action PvE game," Nakamura explains during the video. "This game merges the world of yokai with the real one, awakening the intellectual curiosity we lost in the process of growing up."
Kemuri is kind of hard to describe'
Kemuri was first introduced at The Game Awards 2023, where Nakamura took the stage to introduce her new game via a teaser trailer. Notably, while Kemuri gives the impression that it's a fully open world game in the vein of Spiderman, Unseen is seeking to set expectations."It's kind of hard to describe, but [I don't want to] actually say open world. We won't actually say that either, because that expectation is very different...I don't know, like Cyberpunk or Fallout. Skyrim is open world. It's a ginormous map. It's not what that is," said Nakamura, who spoke with IGN in a recent interview as part of Fan Fest. "But at the same time, it's not a linear game either, and it's quite hard to describe. So want you to look forward to actually playing the game in the near future."