Although it's undeniably a horror game, Slitterhead plays a lot more like an action RPG, in which players live or die by the strength of their party members. There's a good reason for all that bloodshed: Slitterhead is the work of multiple Team Silent alumni, including series creator Keiichiro Toyama and longtime sound designer Akira Yamaoka. Even so, Slitterhead has a lot more in common with Toyama's later works, with clear shades of Siren and Gravity Rush coming through in its gameplay.

To that end, most of what players will be doing in Slitterhead involves hopping from body to body, possessing different people and using their unique abilities to solve puzzles and fight grotesque enemies. When it comes to fighting, no one's better than its eight Rarities, extra-special humans with strong wills who are able to summon bloody weapons in battle, maintaining a shred of their free will even when possessed by Hyoki.