Hey folks!
My identify is Dave Mervik and I am the narrative director at Tarsier Studios, creators of the soon-to-be-released co-op horror sport. reanimalwhich launches on PS5 on February 13, 2026.
For these of you new to the world of Reanimal, it is the story of a gaggle of orphans united by the world they grew up in and torn by what that world turned. The boy and the lady are your playable characters on this story they usually meet from the start of the sport. After saying howdy, they set off on their boat to seek out and get better their lacking mates (Hood, Bucket and Bandage) from a wide range of disagreeable locations and even additional nasty monsters. It is truthful to say that these children have a sophisticated historical past with this place, so do not be shocked in the event that they’re just a little greatly surprised once they see you at first, however all good mates come to those that wait!
This 12 months we traveled to Gamescom and the Tokyo Sport Present to demo Reanimal for the general public and the response has been past our wildest desires, listening to the screams of pleasure and terror as gamers labored collectively to outlive has been music to our ears and is strictly what we hoped for when arising with this concept of being scared collectively. So, to everybody who gave their time in Cologne and Tokyo, we provide you with our honest thanks. It is that form of reception that makes the numerous years of laborious work value it. Roughly!
As the discharge of the complete sport approaches, we wish to take this chance to announce to you right here right this moment that pre-orders are actually open. All Reanimal pre-orders unlock a pair of unique skins, Foxhead and Muttonhead, which can be utilized by any of the characters to make your tribulations on this hellish world just a little extra enjoyable or to blind you to its horrors.
As a studio that obtained its begin making hats and costumes for LittleBigPlanet, it feels unusually applicable to be again right here all these years later speaking about Reanimal skins. These of you who’ve already performed the Reanimal demo will know: our newest vary of hats has reached a a lot darker place! Sure, gone are the times if you placed on the silliest hat to cavort carefree via a world of happiness and creativity. Reanimal is a wildly completely different beast, it is a world of loss, violence and worry collectively, a birthday cake hat would wreck the whole lot!
At Tarsier, we attempt to make our worlds as wealthy and character-filled as doable, the place the story lives each on the earth round you and in what our characters say and do. It is enjoyable and rewarding to concentrate to the little issues, filling the background with particulars that inform us extra concerning the world we dwell in. in and the world we got here to of. Masks and costumes additionally fall into this class. Adorning the pinnacle or obscuring the face doesn’t all the time must be a meaningless act and, in lots of instances, the masks (or the purpose for this) is as a lot part of the story because the particular person behind it.
The pores and skin creation course of for Reanimal begins the identical means as in earlier video games: artists start sketching concepts across the central themes we discover within the sport after which iterate on them till they attain that elusive Tarsier High quality Bar™. The Foxhead and Muttonhead masks resonated particularly properly as a result of they’d that beastly taste we have been on the lookout for; whereas their predator/prey characterizations quietly reiterate the sport’s thematic undercurrents. They appeared like an acceptable couple to launch as exclusives, as they arrive with loads of baggage, similar to our leads.
So whilst you’re on the lookout for your folks, even if you happen to’re afraid to take action, it is value exploring the world round you to see what secrets and techniques may be hiding. There are further story bits, hidden story bits, Easter eggs; and naturally a few of the nastiest skins we have ever created. We will not assure that carrying them will maintain you protected from what awaits you, however at the very least you may seem like you belong right here!
