Smile and say AIEEEEE, horror followers! Tecmo and Staff Ninja are bringing a “remake” of PS2 survival horror Deadly Body 2: Crimson Butterfly to PC through Steam in early 2026. Why am I brandishing a glyph-covered Canon EOS 90D at you, whereas singing the Ghostbusters theme? Permit me to clarify: Deadly Body’s signature contact is that you just defeat spooks utilizing a magic digicam. Naturally, this additionally implies that it’s important to look steadily and calmly at stated spooks whereas they shimmer and sway in direction of you. Catch a few of that nonsense within the remake’s announcement trailer.
I’ve solely ever performed one Deadly Body sport, 2005’s Deadly Body III: The Tormented, during which you alternate between a comparatively secure daytime condominium and a dream manor the place the monsters are. I am advised that Crimson Butterfly is the most effective of the lot. It is the story of dual sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura, who go to a stream in the future to reminisce about their childhoods earlier than the realm is submerged by the development of a dam.
Alas and alack, Mayu spots a pleasant pink butterfly that lures her away to a “village of endless night time”, residence to a “forbidden ritual”. I had the same factor occur to me whereas mountaineering alongside the Dales Manner, as soon as. The butterfly was a deceptively low-cost Airbnb itemizing, the village was Kendal, and the forbidden ritual was all-night karaoke on the Olde Fleece Inn.
In line with the Steam web page, the Crimson Butterfly remake can be a “full overhaul”, with “richer and extra participating gameplay in each exploration and fight”. Particularly, you’ll be able to count on a “Holding Fingers with Mayu” mechanic that, presumably, allows you to maintain fingers with Mayu. I actually hope there’s extra to this so-called remake’s “richer and extra participating gameplay” than merely letting main characters maintain fingers, Tecmo.
I benefit from the nerdiness of Deadly Body’s pictures mechanics. The digicam might be upgraded with completely different lenses and kinds of movie, and it isn’t not possible that you just may study one thing about shot composition when you’re flashbulbing poltergeists. Given nerves of metal, you may end up demanding that the ghost exit and are available once more, as a result of dang it, this one could possibly be worthy of the New Yorker. The ghost is not going to hearken to you, in fact, however do not let that cease you yelling at your TV display.
Two earlier Deadly Body video games have made the leap to PC – Deadly Body: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse and Deadly Body: Maiden of Black Water. Our Masks of the Lunar Eclipse reviewer Kim Armstrong was not eager, commenting of the PC port, “whereas this distinctive fight might have carried the sport’s lifeless story again in 2008, this rerelease is nothing greater than an costly reskin of a relic.”
We did not overview Maiden of Black Water, probably as a result of it was so terrifying that Graham (RPS in peace) refused to assign it and as an alternative threw it right into a lake one darkish and stormy night. Or probably as a result of it was so boring that Graham (RPS in peace) refused to assign it and as an alternative threw it right into a lake one darkish and stormy night. He is gone now, so it is not possible to say for positive.
