A new Death Note game has been rated for PlayStation by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The title is Death Note: Killer Within and it’s coming to PS4 and PS5 from publisher Bandai Namco, though details are scarce about the project including which developer is at the helm.
As reported by Gematsu, the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee trademarked the name Death Note: Killer Within on 12 June in Europe and Japan and on 20 June in the United States. The game is listed for PlayStation consoles, specifically PS4 and PS5, though it will likely be a multiplatform release since it’s being published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Beyond that, not much else is known about the mystery project.
Fans have started speculating what a Death Note game could play like. Since there’s not much action that happens in the manga and anime – most of the series’ thrills comes from the cat-and-mouse mind games between Light Yagami and the detective L – some fans theorise that it will be a detective game akin to Ace Attorney or a potential visual novel that lets players experience the events of the series.
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Konami released a Death Note game for the Nintendo DS back in 2007 called Death Note: Kira Game, which combined elements of investigation, detective work and puzzle-solving. It was an interesting spin on the concept and one that had potential to be a larger-scale video game.
Death Note is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The plot revolves around a high school student named Light Yagami who one day finds a mysterious supernatural notebook that allows him to kill people by simply writing their names in it. Light uses this to enact justice on the world, executing criminals with the flick of his pen. His killings eventually attracts the attention of the world’s greatest detective, L.
Source: Gematsu
