Capcom says ‘it’s not been completely given up on’
In my imagination,Deep Downwas an incredible dungeon-crawling RPG from Capcom.
It came out on PlayStation 4 as originally intended, we all played it, we all loved it, the public discourse shifted a few months later to suddenly deem it “overrated,” and now we’re dying for a sequel.
In reality,Deep Downis little more than a pipe dream at this point.
The game had a head-turning trailer in 2013during the PS4 reveal event, and since then,nothing. Well, close to nothing. Capcom brought a build ofDeep Downto Tokyo Game Show. Humans played it!
Even looking back on this footage now, in 2019, I very much would’ve liked to experience this game. Also–and this is truly wild to me–the PlayStation.com landing pageforDeep Downexists to this day.
As pointed out this week in aEurogamerinterview with Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, there’s still the slightest glimmer of hope forDeep Down. It could, one day, materialize into something new.
“The originalteam is clearly no longer together at this point, but people might have noticed that we’ve kept the trademark registered, and it’s not been completely given up on,” Ono explained.
“Every year we examine titles we’re doing in future, and we bring up projects to approve and move forward,” he told the outlet. “There’s not much I can say about it, but if you’ve noticed we’ve kept the [Deep Down] trademark it means we haven’t given up on the title completely.”
Honestly? It’s probably for the best thatDeep Downdidn’t come to fruition. I want to see the current Capcom–the Capcom that brought usResident Evil 7,Devil May Cry 5,Monster Hunter: World, and theRE2remake–take a stab at redefiningDeep Downfor (once again!) next-generation consoles.
There’s room in their lineup for a new IP, and they could absolutely pull it off.
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