Hot on the heels of Sony’s E3 press conference last night, Famitsu held an impromptu interview regarding the newly revealed Let It Die for the PlayStation 4 with designer Goichi Suda, aka Suda 51, of Grasshopper Manufacture and executive producer and Gung Ho Online president Kazuki Morishita.
Let It Die is essentially the same game as the previously revealed Lily Bergamo that was shown off last fall, retaining the original idea of what the team is calling an “extreme action game” coupled with asynchronous online gameplay while expanding on them with survival aspects.
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According to Suda, the basically gameplay conceit of Let It Die revolves around the idea of granting meaning to death in a video game. As such, the game is structured around the idea of death influencing gameplay, with one example being that if a player’s character dies in the game, their avatar can appear in another person’s game.
While Let It Die still has some traditional AI enemies, the majority of NPC characters are stated to actually be dead player characters’ avatars. This means that as more and more deaths occur in the game, the more that death itself will play an increasing role in the overall experience. As Suda himself puts it, the title is meant to in part convey the idea that it’s okay to die over and over again, as that’s at the very heart of the game’s identity.
Although information about the gameplay specifically remains sparse for the time being, Suda and Morishita did share a handful of tidbits about the overall structure and progression. All players will begin unarmed, wearing nothing but underwear and a gas mask. More equipment and weapons can be stolen off of defeated enemies, although there are stated to be other ways of accomplishing this as well given the game’s survival elements, which emphasize item procurement within a localized area.
