Former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida is getting the pixel treatment as a playable character in upcoming indie puzzler Bionic Bay.
The game’s developer took to the PlayStation Blog to reveal the collaboration, which sees Yoshida-san, who departed Sony earlier this year after more than 30 years, joined by a special stage within Bionic Bay’s online challenge mode. Those of you who managed to top Yoshida’s score will unlock a skin based on the much-loved, former PlayStation indie champion, customising your scientist for the leaderboards.
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As well as Shu’s own player skin, we’re also bringing you a Deluxe edition of Bionic Bay – with our Classic Monster skin pack. This includes eight costumes inspired by vintage horror (a personal favourite genre of mine), with an alien, a werewolf and more. The Classic Monster pack allows players to unleash a little frightful charm and really sink your fangs into the online leaderboards.
Since departing Sony, Yoshida has taken part in many interviews and has been quite forthcoming on a number of topics. For example, he touched base on the as-yet unannounced PS6, saying it ‘feels right‘ if the console were to arrive in 2028, and has suggested Sony may need to change how it thinks going forward by focussing less on pushing cutting-edge visuals.
Bionic Bay is out tomorrow for PS5.
[Source – PlayStation Blog]