Promise Mascot Company simply introduced its voice solid, which incorporates numerous shock additions from the world of online game improvement.
Kaizen Recreation Works’ open-world narrative journey sees gamers discover a cursed Japanese city and recruit mascot buddies. You even assist a dwelling finger work by anger points.
The place Promise Mascot Company is punching above its weight is within the voice solid division. It’s nabbed PlayStation developer legend Shuhei Yoshida in his first ever online game voice function, and the announcement comes sizzling on the heels of Yoshida’s final day at Sony.
At farewell social gathering yesterday 😆 pic.twitter.com/hpiPWQIO1z
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) January 14, 2025
Shuhei Yoshida labored on PlayStation from the very starting, taking part in a key function within the authentic console’s success from 1993. He was one of many extra public-facing PlayStation executives whereas President of SIE Worldwide Studios from 2008 to 2019, championing indie and VR success specifically. Yoshida introduced his exit from Sony in November throughout his thirty first yr at PlayStation.
“Once I hit 30 years, I used to be considering, hmm, it could be about time for me to maneuver on,” he defined on the time. “You realize, the corporate’s been doing nice. I really like PS5, I really like the video games which might be popping out on this platform. And we now have new generations of administration who I respect and admire. And I’m so excited for the way forward for PlayStation.”
Whereas Yoshida long-term plan stays up within the air, within the short-term he’s turned to online game voice performing, and that is the place Promise Mascot Company is available in. Yoshida performs Monouge, an odd-looking green-skinned former mascot who’s opening their very own sport middle.
Yoshida isn’t the one huge title becoming a member of the Promise Mascot Company voice solid. Yakuza: Like A Dragon’s Takaya Kuroda, who performs collection protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, and Legend of Zelda’s Ayano Shibuya additionally star, as do Eri Saito (Chainsaw Man, Metallic Gear Stable 4, Means of the Samurai 3) and Swery, developer of Lethal Premonition, The Good Life, and Spy Fiction.
You’ll be able to see what Yoshida and co sound like in-game within the unique trailer, beneath.
“We will’t imagine that our bizarre sport managed to draw such a powerful voice solid,” mentioned sport director Oli Clarke Smith.
“When our lead Japanese localiser, Roppyaku Tsurumi, instructed us that Kuroda-san had auditioned, we nearly misplaced our minds. The entire solid have introduced our group of misfits to life splendidly. After engaged on these characters for 4 years, they’ve develop into like buddies to us, and we’re so glad that they’ve all been given a voice. The staff on the recording studio, Xenorex, did an incredible job.”
Right here’s the official blurb:
Takaya Kuroda voices the disgraced ex-yakuza Michi, exiled to the forgotten (and fairly undoubtedly cursed) Japanese city of Kaso-Machi with two objectives: repay his debt and restore glory to the city’s defunct mascot company! Recruit the strange mascots throughout city with assist out of your severed finger assistant supervisor and chaos goblin, Pinky☆ – voiced by Ayana Shibuya, negotiate their contracts and assign them jobs they love.
Promise Mascot Company will likely be obtainable on PC and consoles early 2025.
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