I want you to know that this isn’t a paid advertisement. I’m not getting any money for this. I just stumbled across this randomly. It’s the trailer for Showa American Story and I’m so intrigued that I felt I had to make a post about this.

So, there’s a lot going on and yet, I have no idea what is happening. Definitely, America has been bought by America. Got it. There are zombies. Sure. A man commits seppuku in front of Mount Rushmore. Getting weirder. There are a bunch of fat men that Voltron into a fat men megazord. Uh… There’s a man who says that he’s a cowboy and samurai. Kind of par for the course. There are zombies using their organs as weapons. That makes sense, they’ve been doing that since the Left 4 Dead franchise.

The visuals look beautiful, which shouldn’t be anything new. We have the graphical ability to make great looking games easily now. What really looks good is that everything is imaginative. They show these large landscape shots where it looks like everything has been lived in and civilized in a certain manner. That they put thought into this. I can really appreciate that.

Whatever the nitty gritty of the story is, it’s going to be insane. This feels like a Hideo Kajima game or a SUDA51. They have their own logic and they’re applying it to this nonsense and it’s going to break your hear and make you question your sanity.

The thing is that this reminds me of every time I’ve seen a trailer for some weird movie that I know is going to shake me to my core. Something like Blue Velvet or the Lighthouse. It just looks like this game is ready to grab me Peter Pan style and take me on a life changing journey. So, yeah, I guess for the trailer hook, line and sinker.

When it comes out, I’m going to play it and I’ll report back. I just wanted you all to know about this if it flew below your radar.