Temco's Deception series was a revelation when it hit on the original Playstation back in 1996. Not only were you not playing the good guy for once, you were actively trying to kill all the heroes that were exploring your castle. All manner of brutal traps could be set to trap these do-gooders and no one made it out alive. Now Deception IV: Blood Ties is on the way for the PS3 and Playstation Vita and we've got some new gameplay footage trailers to show off what you have to expect.
As with the later installments in the series, it lets you control a character from the third person and has a big focus on trap combos. You may think that you'd want to dispatch any intruders to your castle as easily and quickly as possible but you know what? You'd be wrong. Where's the fun in one-hit kills? Is it more fun to see a hero fall into a spike trap, or to get knocked from one thing to another Rube Goldberg-style, helplessly driven forward by each successive hit? This first trailer shows the lighter side of death as we witness an unwitting victim doing everything from slipping on a banana peel, getting a pumpkin smashed on her head, getting hit by a pendulum, and well, you'll have to see how it ends.
Hopefully the game will support touch controls on the Vita because it looks like it could be so intuitive to lay down traps just by tapping on the grid. There's no word on cross-buy or cross-play functionality but both of those would be appreciated as well.
Producer of the game Keisuke Kikuchi is the creator of the Fatal Frame series so expect much more emphasis on the evil side of things. After all the protagonist of the game is named Regrina, and she's the daughter of the devil. Here is another trailer that shows five more traps being set off on some poor guy- wall spikes, an iron maiden- it's all pretty brutal stuff.
Deception IV: Blood Ties will be hitting February 27th, 2014 for PlayStation 3 and Vita.... in Japan. It was only announced last September and doesn't have an American release date just yet, but the sooner the better.