Metal Gear Solid artist, Front Mission boss, Armored Core director join forces for new Square Enix IP, Left Alive

Left Alive is a video game coming to PS4, and possibly other places. This is very close to the full extent of our knowledge.

Square Enix announced Left Alive with a trailer during today’s PlayStation Conference, which traditionally presages the Tokyo Game Show every September.

The trailer seems to show a modern day setting hit by an apocalyptic event. Shinji Hashimoto, whose credits include Front Mission and some of the best Final Fantasy games, is producing, and character design comes to us courtesy of Yoji Shinkawa, whose distinctive brush stroke style is well known to Metal Gear fans.

The director is Toshifumi Nabeshima, previously of From Software, where he was credited as producer on various Armored Core titles. He was also director of the very first Armored Core game in 1997, and a script writer on Dark Souls 2.

Alex reckons we’re looking at a mech game. That certainly seems most likely, but I’ll give long odds on Square’s joining in the Dark Souls fun; the title “Left Alive” certainly has a bit of an undead ring to it, doesn’t it?

We have no real idea through, because Sony and Square Enix gave no details on genre or gameplay. Anyway, here’s an unofficial cap from XCageGame. We’ll update with an official embed – and hopefully some actual detail – as soon as we can.

Expect more news on left Alive and other Japanese titles as TGS winds on this week.

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