{"id":5175,"date":"2022-08-16T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/a-deeper-look-at-the-gameplay-and-soundtrack-of-serial-cleaners\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:14:01","slug":"a-deeper-look-at-the-gameplay-and-soundtrack-of-serial-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/a-deeper-look-at-the-gameplay-and-soundtrack-of-serial-cleaners\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeper look at the gameplay and soundtrack of Serial Cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__inner\">\n<p class=\"\">The story of Serial Cleaners begins on New Year\u2019s Eve 1999. Bob and his fellow cleaners, Psycho, Lati, and Vip3r, meet at the back of a funeral home to reminisce about the past. It\u2019s a nostalgic trip to the early 1990s at first, but as recollections continue, strange inaccuracies continue to pile up, exposing long-held truths they have been keeping from each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Each character has their own story to tell. Your choices throughout the night will slowly alter how they tell that story and ultimately decide how their shared story ends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode shortcode--youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube-video has-agegate\">\n\t<button class=\"youtube-video__load-button\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play  Video<\/span><br \/>\n\t<\/p><\/button>\n<div class=\"youtube-video__iframe\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ps-age-gate-container__unlock-button\">\n<p>\t\tVerify your age to view this content.\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Verify your age to view this content.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__inner\">\n<p class=\"\">While keeping its narrative legacy intact, in Serial Cleaners we greatly expand on the ideas of the original game, Serial Cleaner. Instead of presenting the player with simple puzzle-like stages, we decided to present them with a set of tools and abilities to choose from \u2013 and improvise. Let your imagination run wild, and you will surely find your own way to cover those pesky crimes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Whether you want to sneak or sprint through the level, drag the evidence around, or cut it to pieces, we have you covered. The game becomes much more open-ended with a wide range of contextual interactions and more involved law enforcement. While the overall complexity increases, the heart of our original game \u2013 wiping the scene clean \u2013 is still there and feels better than ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Four different cleaners means four unique perspectives. While Bob relies on his good ol\u2019 tricks of the trade, adjusted and enhanced with the new environment in mind, we bring to the game three new and distinct playstyles. There is Psycho\u2019s brute force, Lati\u2019s agility and awareness, and Vip3r\u2019s cutting-edge tech skills. Each mission is tied to one of the cleaners and unfolds a piece of their turbulent story over the decade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Choosing the \u201890s as our timeframe opened a door into a unique zeitgeist for us. The eccentric Basquiat-esque street art mixed with our fresh spin on cult crime thrillers, Tarantino classics, and B-movie action films allowed us to portray the \u201890s as the decade as it was back then \u2013 full of brightly colored optimism\u2026 and the grime underneath it all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s only natural that all of this should come with a proper soundtrack. There is this crude \u201890s punk nonconformity, the sound of many genres that defined the end of the last century \u2013 from East Coast hip-hop, to industrial metal, and a sea of electronic music. From Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, through Orbital and Prodigy, finishing with Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. Each of the cleaners represents a part of that musical tapestry, which makes their respective music scores uniquely theirs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Such an eclectic aesthetic required someone with a deep-tissue level of understanding of what made the sound of the 1990s what it was. That is why we teamed up with the amazing Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv, Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, and others).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What made Joshua\u2019s work really magical was his idea not just to riff on existing well-known tracks, but to try and recreate the ecosystem of musical styles rooted in the subcultures of the 1990s. Styles that were all related and influenced each other in exceptional ways, resulting in a varied, distinct, yet unmistakable aesthetic of the decade \u2013 one Josh was uniquely qualified to reproduce since, well, he lived it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Serial Cleaners is a bizarre crime story with a cheeky twist on a wise-guy fantasy. When cleaning up after NYC wrongdoers, you get a glimpse of the sins ingrained in the city\u2019s tissue. But what does it matter? You are a professional, one of the best of the trade. You\u2019re here to solve problems. No matter the case, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Isn\u2019t that right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Serial Cleaners launches on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on September 22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ps-age-gate-container__unlock-button\">\n<p>\t\tVerify your age to view this content.\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Verify your age to view this content.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deeper look at the gameplay and soundtrack of Serial Cleaners<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__inner\">\n<p class=\"\">The story of Serial Cleaners begins on New Year\u2019s Eve 1999. Bob and his fellow cleaners, Psycho, Lati, and Vip3r, meet at the back of a funeral home to reminisce about the past. It\u2019s a nostalgic trip to the early 1990s at first, but as recollections continue, strange inaccuracies continue to pile up, exposing long-held truths they have been keeping from each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Each character has their own story to tell. Your choices throughout the night will slowly alter how they tell that story and ultimately decide how their shared story ends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode shortcode--youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube-video has-agegate\">\n\t<button class=\"youtube-video__load-button\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play  Video<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video__iframe\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__overlay-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ps-age-gate-container__unlock-button\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\tVerify your age to view this content.\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Verify your age to view this content.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container\">\n<div class=\"ps-age-gate-container__inner\">\n<p class=\"\">While keeping its narrative legacy intact, in Serial Cleaners we greatly expand on the ideas of the original game, Serial Cleaner. Instead of presenting the player with simple puzzle-like stages, we decided to present them with a set of tools and abilities to choose from \u2013 and improvise. Let your imagination run wild, and you will surely find your own way to cover those pesky crimes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Whether you want to sneak or sprint through the level, drag the evidence around, or cut it to pieces, we have you covered. The game becomes much more open-ended with a wide range of contextual interactions and more involved law enforcement. While the overall complexity increases, the heart of our original game \u2013 wiping the scene clean \u2013 is still there and feels better than ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Four different cleaners means four unique perspectives. While Bob relies on his good ol\u2019 tricks of the trade, adjusted and enhanced with the new environment in mind, we bring to the game three new and distinct playstyles. There is Psycho\u2019s brute force, Lati\u2019s agility and awareness, and Vip3r\u2019s cutting-edge tech skills. Each mission is tied to one of the cleaners and unfolds a piece of their turbulent story over the decade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Choosing the \u201890s as our timeframe opened a door into a unique zeitgeist for us. The eccentric Basquiat-esque street art mixed with our fresh spin on cult crime thrillers, Tarantino classics, and B-movie action films allowed us to portray the \u201890s as the decade as it was back then \u2013 full of brightly colored optimism\u2026 and the grime underneath it all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s only natural that all of this should come with a proper soundtrack. There is this crude \u201890s punk nonconformity, the sound of many genres that defined the end of the last century \u2013 from East Coast hip-hop, to industrial metal, and a sea of electronic music. From Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, through Orbital and Prodigy, finishing with Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. Each of the cleaners represents a part of that musical tapestry, which makes their respective music scores uniquely theirs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Such an eclectic aesthetic required someone with a deep-tissue level of understanding of what made the sound of the 1990s what it was. That is why we teamed up with the amazing Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv, Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, and others).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What made Joshua\u2019s work really magical was his idea not just to riff on existing well-known tracks, but to try and recreate the ecosystem of musical styles rooted in the subcultures of the 1990s. Styles that were all related and influenced each other in exceptional ways, resulting in a varied, distinct, yet unmistakable aesthetic of the decade \u2013 one Josh was uniquely qualified to reproduce since, well, he lived it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Serial Cleaners is a bizarre crime story with a cheeky twist on a wise-guy fantasy. When cleaning up after NYC wrongdoers, you get a glimpse of the sins ingrained in the city\u2019s tissue. But what does it matter? You are a professional, one of the best of the trade. You\u2019re here to solve problems. 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