Multiplayer slasher and insatiable licensing vortex Dead by Daylight has absorbed but extra horror icons into its all-consuming spiral, this time the creations of legendary manga artist Junji Ito. Earlier this week, developer Behaviour Interactive introduced the launch of the Junji Ito Collection, which lets gamers costume as characters from a number of of Ito’s most notable works.
More particularly, the gathering provides eight new outfits for each killers and survivors. On the killer aspect, these embody a brand new legendary outfit for the Spirit that lets her assume the guise of Tomie Kawakami, the succubus-like protagonist of Ito’s first-published story, and a Miss Fuchi legendary outfit for the Artist, permitting her to decorate up as Ito’s cannibal supermodel. Meanwhile, the Trickster and The Twins every get an ultra-rare outfit impressed by Ito’s works, with the previous in a position to don Soichi’s Party Clothes primarily based on the character Soichi Tsuji, a younger boy with anaemia and a style for iron nails, whereas the latter will get a fancy dress primarily based on the story Hikizuri’s Dark Past.
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Although the killers get many of the new threads, the gathering provides three new outfits for survivors to put on whereas being horribly eviscerated. Yui Kimura will get a college uniform impressed by the character Tsukiko from Tomie, whereas Kate Denson will get a ballet outfit taken from Marionette Mansion, and Yun-Jin Lee can bag a Terumi’s Fame, a really uncommon outfit primarily based upon The Hanging Balloons.
There is, in fact, a notable absence of any outfits primarily based on Ito’s most well-known work Uzumaki, wherein a Japanese city is troubled by a curse revolving round spirals. This may very well be Behaviour holding again to do one thing extra substantial with Ito’s magnum opus, or it may very well be a licensing subject, since Uzumaki just lately obtained a (reportedly horrible) animated adaptation proven on Netflix.
Alongside the announcement, Dead By Daylight printed a enjoyable, if not precisely insightful video of Ito taking part in and discussing the sport with the Collection, which you’ll be able to view above. He does talk about the crossover slightly bit, saying it’s “transferring” to see how his horror creations have turn into “much more terrifying characters after leaving my palms”. The spotlight, although, is his commentary that the survivors are sporting “fairly flashy garments”, earlier than including “I feel it’ll be simple to seek out them, don’t you?”
