Unfortunately, ATLUS USA and developer Zombie Studios have had to today confirm that their upcoming PlayStation 4 / PC release of Daylight has had to be delayed until the 29th April 2014. They have put down this delay to improving the procedural (random) generation of the environment, making sure that all the scare cues are properly implemented for the greatest potential of pants wetting and high-pitched screaming.
While the game on either platform will be set at a standard price of $14.99 USD, they are providing two opportunities to pick up the game for up to 33% off:
- Starting on April 29 for 2 weeks, PS+ subscribers will be able to get Daylight for $9.99, non-subscribers $11.99.
- You can pre-order Daylight on PC right now through April 29 for $9.99, which is 33% off the original price.
ATLUS USA have also continued detailing the story and history of the game world, helping set the scene to what will prove to be the ample horror that myself and I assume others have been waiting many months for. Divert your eyes below for more:
1700 – 1859
Skipping back nearly two hundred years, we get to the initial founding of Mid Island Hospital. As colonial America began to flourish, so too did rampant Tuberculosis. Between the ravages of the disease and the various wars with the French, Native Americans, and eventually British, Mid Island Hospital tended to several generations of death. Corpse disposal was haphazard at best, and wass accomplished by any means. As America turned on itself in the Civil War, Mid Island Hospital retreats to obscurity until the early 1900s.
Some Ignominious Time in the Late 1600s
The puritanical theocracy of the fledgling village of New Kipling held trials in the wake of several unexplained murders and disappearances around the township. The ruling clergy passed judgment on a group of women, citing them for religious crimes, Satanism, and other grievous offenses. Condemned to hell and denied any last rites, the women were summarily executed and buried unceremoniously on nearby Mid Island. The furor of religious persecution left New Kipling and rippled out to other coastal townships, including Plymouth, Boston and Salem. The unmarked graves went forgotten until the founding of Mid Island Hospital…
The Final Area
The last area to talk about in Daylight is the craziest one of all. Clearing the forest area gives way to…the hospital? But there’s something different about it. The halls are no longer decrepit; there’s no trash, no graffiti, no empty beds in the halls. The hospital looks new. It looks brand new. Like…when it was first built. What the hell is going on here? You’ll have to find out for yourself…
