To no one’s surprise, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will not reward players for taking upskirt pictures in the game.
Enough time (nearly 20 years!) has passed that this needs a recap: In the original game, which launched in 2006, player-protagonist Frank West is a photojournalist in pursuit of the truth about a zombie outbreak in suburban Colorado. He gets trapped in a shopping mall overrun by undead, though some human survivors are there with him. They appeal for help on a transceiver and West has the option of trying to save them.
Otherwise the goal is to survive 72 in-game hours in the mall, and maybe get some good pics to bring home to your editor. Taking pictures is a kind of minigame, and if Frank takes a noteworthy one — “Horror,” with lots and lots of zombies, or “Brutality” for loads of gore — he gets Prestige Points, which is the “currency” driving the game’s progression system leveling Frank up.
Another such photo category was “Erotica,” which was your garden variety upskirt/downblouse creepshot of a female NPC. That’s been scrubbed from the Remaster, for quite obvious reasons. Famitsu reported the change on Friday after Capcom published the game’s latest “Director’s Report” with director Ryosuke Murai and producer Kei Morimoto.
The more important news is probably that the packaged-goods version of Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will go on shelves on Nov. 8, for collectors or those who prefer games on a disc.
But otherwise, neither Murai nor Morimoto gave a reason for the change, probably because it’s self explanatory: tastes were a lot different 18 years ago, and leaving it in today would create a needless controversy.
What else is in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster?
Capcom’s two creatives also talked about some of the other changes being introduced to the game, which are as granular as remade facial motion capture, and as broad as a set of filters for all the pictures Frank takes during his ordeal.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster launches Sept. 19 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. The original was a breakout hit for Capcom that showcased the emergent power of consoles of the day in how they could manage an enormous shambling horde of zombies, all on the screen at the same time.
We’ll see if a fresh coat of paint, plus some updated mechanics and other quality-of-life changes players have come to expect over the past two decades, brings the same good feelings back in 2024.
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