Murdered: Soul Suspect Spooks Japan With Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel’s Voice Actor

Square Enix will release Murdered: Soul Suspect in Japan under the Extreme Edges label. Extreme Edges handles their Western releases like Thief and the Call of Duty series. In Japan, the game is called Murdered: The Soul’s Voice Calling Out and has Koichi Yamadera voicing dead hardboiled detective Rowan O’Connor.

Yamadera may be best known in the West as the voice actor for Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop. He’s also Kain Highwind in Final Fantasy IV for Nintendo DS and Joel in The Last of Us.

Murdered: Soul Suspect is slated for release on July 17 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and PC in Japan. The Xbox One version is TBD. North America gets Murdered: Soul Suspect on June 3.