Incomplete nightmare.

Incomplete nightmare.

 

Looking back over the PS1 games I have picked up over the last few days for my new PlayStation (see my last blog post) I found several titles that really deserved next gen remakes.

 

Now I know that some of them got same gen sequels and "spiritual successors" but these are just a few that I think should get next gen remakes for PS4 or Xbox one.

 

 

 

Nightmare Creatures

A fantastic hack and slash game from Kalisto entertainment and Activision for the PlayStation.

You played as  Ignatius, a monk who works for a secret organisation who protect the world from hidden supernatural threats  or Nadia, the daughter of an American academic who is drawn into the fight when her father is killed.

 

The story is the usual mish mash of horror tropes with a mad scientist getting hold of a forbidden text (Samuel peep's secret diary....really??) and using it to raise an unholy army of zombies, demons and home made monsters stitched together from the bodies of the dead.

 

The gothic horror and 3D beat em up mechanic would work really well on a modern game engine. The original game had allot of pop up issues and a very short draw distance- a new engine on the new consoles would mean theses issues would be a thing of a past.

 

With so many older games getting remakes I cant see this one being top of the list for updates though.

 

Clock Tower 

 

 

 

Clock tower was a game for the super famicom that never made it out of Japan and didn't get a European release.

Unlike allot of other horror games, clock tower was about running, hiding and cowering in boxes while a monster (well a deformed kid with giant scissors) stalks and tries to slice you up.

With the likes of outlast and Alien: Isolation  making waves on consoles then this blend of scares and gore would go down really well.