Coming from Suda 51's Grasshopper Manufacture, Black Knight Sword looks like something of an oddity, featuring bizarrd potato-head monsters, copious blood and an oppressive backdrop that takes place upon an opulent-looking stage with red velvet curtains.

Typically off-the-wall fare, Black Knight Sword was announced at Gamescom last week, and these first screens show what the 2D hack and slasher/platformer is all about, while the teaser trailer is less helpful, showing very little beyond silhouettes with a booming narration.

The tale of the Black Knight Sword will be coming to the PlayStation Network when the show begins this winter 2011. Check out the trailer (once with sound, once without for some reason) and the first five screens in the gallery.