While holding its narrative legacy intact, in Serial Cleaners we enormously increase on the concepts of the unique recreation, Serial Cleaner. Instead of presenting the participant with easy puzzle-like phases, we determined to current them with a set of instruments and skills to select from – and improvise. Let your creativeness run wild, and you’ll absolutely discover your personal approach to cowl these pesky crimes!
Whether you wish to sneak or dash by means of the extent, drag the proof round, or lower it to items, we’ve you lined. The recreation turns into way more open-ended with a variety of contextual interactions and extra concerned legislation enforcement. While the general complexity will increase, the guts of our authentic recreation – wiping the scene clear – remains to be there and feels higher than ever.
Four totally different cleaners means 4 distinctive views. While Bob depends on his good ol’ tips of the commerce, adjusted and enhanced with the brand new setting in thoughts, we deliver to the sport three new and distinct playstyles. There is Psycho’s brute drive, Lati’s agility and consciousness, and Vip3r’s cutting-edge tech abilities. Each mission is tied to one of many cleaners and unfolds a bit of their turbulent story over the last decade.
Choosing the ‘90s as our timeframe opened a door into a singular zeitgeist for us. The eccentric Basquiat-esque avenue artwork blended with our contemporary spin on cult crime thrillers, Tarantino classics, and B-movie motion movies allowed us to painting the ‘90s as the last decade because it was again then – filled with brightly coloured optimism… and the grime beneath all of it.
It’s solely pure that each one of this could include a correct soundtrack. There is that this crude ‘90s punk nonconformity, the sound of many genres that outlined the tip of the final century – from East Coast hip-hop, to industrial metallic, and a sea of digital music. From Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, by means of Orbital and Prodigy, ending with Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. Each of the cleaners represents part of that musical tapestry, which makes their respective music scores uniquely theirs.
Such an eclectic aesthetic required somebody with a deep-tissue degree of understanding of what made the sound of the Nineteen Nineties what it was. That is why we teamed up with the wonderful Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv, Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, and others).
What made Joshua’s work actually magical was his concept not simply to riff on present well-known tracks, however to attempt to recreate the ecosystem of musical kinds rooted within the subcultures of the Nineteen Nineties. Styles that have been all associated and influenced one another in distinctive methods, leading to a diversified, distinct, but unmistakable aesthetic of the last decade – one Josh was uniquely certified to breed since, properly, he lived it.
Serial Cleaners is a weird crime story with a cheeky twist on a wise-guy fantasy. When cleansing up after NYC wrongdoers, you get a glimpse of the sins ingrained within the metropolis’s tissue. But what does it matter? You are an expert, probably the greatest of the commerce. You’re right here to resolve issues. No matter the case, regardless of the fee.
Isn’t that proper?
Serial Cleaners launches on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on September 22.