Monthly Archives: June 2020
Chris Evans Credits Marvel’s Kevin Feige for the Success of the MCU
Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access Begins in August 2020…Maybe
Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access Begins in August 2020…Maybe
Guerrilla Collective Day 1: Everything Announced and Revealed
System Shock
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/system-shock-redux-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia System Shock received a brand new trailer and showed the game in action. This remaster of the 1994 classic was rebuilt on Unreal Engine 4 and allows you to once again face off against the ruthless A.I. Shodan. It also teased a demo may be headed our way soon.Cardaclylsm
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/cardaclysm-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Face off against the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the card battle game called Cardaclysm. It is a procedurally generated collectible card game that mixes in action-RPG elements.Uragun
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/uragun-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac Uragun is a top-down shooter that rewards your "instinct and exploration of combat synergies." You take control of Uragun, the deadliest tactical weapon humanity has ever created.EXO ONE
Platforms: Windows Take an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey in EXO ONE as you pilot an alien craft through both space and time. EXO ONE features a gravity-based movement system and has players transforming between a sphere and a glider to maintain momentum and explore the vast reaches of the universe.Almighty: Kill Your Gods
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/almighty-kill-your-gods-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Almighty: Kill Your Gods has players… well… attempting to kill gods along with demons and monsters. Almighty is an action-RPG that can be played solo or with up to four friends. Players can “run, leap, and fly across islands” all while destroying any enemy in your path and rebuilding your home with their remains.Roki
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/roki-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Nintendo Switch Roki is a dark fairy tale that features a deep narrative, puzzles, and exploration. It is inspired by Scandinavian folklore and is the debut title from two ex-Guerilla Games art directors.Genesis Noir
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Xbox one [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/11/genesis-noir-e3-2019-trailer"] Genesis Noir is a noir adventure that is set before, during and after the Big Bang. Players will be able to explore everything from black holes to primordial Earth to jazz cades. Genesis Noir allows you to witness the birth and history of mankind, while also possibly finding a way to “destroy creation” itself.Doors of Insanity
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/doors-of-insanity-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Collectible card game? Purgatory? Mix the two and you have Doors of Insanity. Create your own custom character, build your deck, and “journey to the paradise you deserve.”A Juggler's Tale
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/a-jugglers-tale-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch A Juggler’s Tale follows Abby, an artiste that is held captive at a circus. During the day, she entertains families and kids of all ages, yet at night she is stuck in a cage, dreaming of freedom. One day she escapes and has her chance to find what she’s been fighting so long for. However, she soon finds out how dangerous the outside world is. This game takes place in a war-torn, medieval fairytale world that sees Abby “surrounded by ravaged, starving citizens and and hunted by the relentless cut-throat Tonda.”Lake
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/lake-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Take on the role of "40-something" Meredith Weiss in 1986, who has returned to her home of Providence Oaks in Oregon. She changed her life and is now filling in for her dad, a mail carrier. Players have a ton of choice and will decide how this personal story develops.Urban Trial Tricky
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/urban-trial-tricky-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Nintendo Switch This Switch game has players getting on a motorbike and pulling off incredible, gravity-defying tricks. UTT has a bunch of style, and has players using freestyle, breakdance, and FMX moves to complete any challenge.Boyfriend Dungeon
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/boyfriend-dungeon-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Nintendo Switch Boyfriend Dungeon is a dungeon crawling experience that sets itself apart by having your weapons transform into a host of potential boyfriends.Colt Canyon
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/colt-canyon-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Colt Canyon has players shooting through a hostile canyon full of “hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum!” This game also features a stylish pixel-art design and has rougelike elements and real-time combat.Slay the Spire
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/01/25/slay-the-spire-review"] Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, Windows, Linux Slay the Spire, the popular card-based roguelike, is now available on iOS. In our review of Slay the Spire, we said "Slay the Spire takes some of the best parts of deckbuilding games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers and mixes them into a wholly new and extremely satisfying package. It encourages experimentation, gives you time to make mistakes, and will challenge you immensely as you navigate your way through floor after floor of entertaining, puzzle-like fights. It’s an idea so good that it’s inspired a dozen games like it before it even left early access, but is executed so well that none of them even come close to matching it.Rigid Force Redux
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Rigid Force Redux is a classic shoot-em up in a modern 3D world. Face off against hordes of infected aliens and machines that are programmed to wage an intergalatic war against mankind.Outbuddies DX
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/outbuddies-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Outbuddies DX is a non-linear metroidvania that is all about Old Gods, strange creatures, and remnants of a lost world. Also, it is available toiday for Xbox One, Switch, and PC.Baldur's Gate 3
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/baldurs-gate-3-new-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Google Stadia Larian Studios has announced that Baldur's Gate 3 will enter Early Access in August 2020... maybe. The news was announced during Day 1 of the Guerrilla Collective and Larian Studios cautioned that it is planning on the August 2020 release date, but warns that is only if there are no more significant delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Disco Elysium
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/disco-elysium-guerilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac Disco Elysium is now available on the Epic Games Store. In our 9.6/10 review for Disco Elysium, we said "Disco Elysium is a unique blend of noir-detective fiction, traditional pen-and-paper RPGs, and a large helping of existentialist theory. Its twisting plot, cast of memorable characters, and sheer depth of choice combine to create an experience that begs to be savoured. A few minor gripes aside, it hits on almost every single one of the marks it sets out to achieve and left me yearning to spend more time in its world."West of Dead
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/west-of-dead-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch West of Dead is a dark western set in Purgatory, Wyoming. Mystic enemies, dark powers, and the desert sun all come into play in this gritty western shooter.Dwarf Fortress
Platforms: Windows Developer Tarn Adams showcased a new version of Dwarf Fortress that will be heading to Steam.Valheim
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/valheim-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Valheim is a nordic-inspired 3D action-adventure game. Fight trolls and rival clans as you make your way through the land.Ultrakill
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/ultrakill-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Ultrakill is a Doom-like shooter. Skulls, demons, hordes of enemies, shoot them all.Children of Morta
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/08/07/children-of-morta-official-release-date-trailer"] Children of Morta will be getting new characters with a free DLC update.Frostpunk: Project TVADGYCGJR
Dusk
Platforms: Windows Take the battle to “mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants, and even darker forces” in this retro FPS shooter that is inspired by the classics of the genre from the 90s like Doom and Wolfenstein.Fights in Tight Spaces
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/fights-in-tight-spaces-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Console platforms not announced yet Fights in Tight Spaces is a stylish deck-building, turn-based tactics game reminiscent of classic action movies.Liberated
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/liberated-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Liberated is a hand-drawn, comic-inspire shooter where you join the revolution and take on the system. Liberated will be released in July 2020.Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch This 2D platforming title is inspired by many of the 16 and 32-bit classics that came before it and takes place in a handcrafted steampunk world. Join Aletheia and many other unique characters as they try to discover the secrets of the city of Canaan, the last bastion of mankind.Swimsanity!
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/20/swimsanity-announcement-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Swimsanity! is a multiplayer underwater shooter. Use power-ups and your aquatic powers to survive the underwater world.No Place for Bravery
Windows, Mac, Nintendo Switch No Place for Bravery is a top-down action RPG the combines violence with parental abandonment and will be releeased in 2021.Haven
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/haven-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Haven is an indie-JRPG where ou play as a couple in a mysterious land. Combining open-world JRPG design with 2D dating-sim elementsGONNER 2
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/gonner-2-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch GONNER 2 brings Ikk back and he's been hired by Death to help her take down a mysterious presence that has taken over her lair.Just Die Already
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/just-die-already-death-stranding-parody-trailer-guerrilla-collective"] Platforms: Windows Just Die Already spoofs the debut trailer for Death Stranding in its own announcement trailer. What does it mean? Who knows! [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.Guerrilla Collective Day 1: Everything Announced and Revealed
System Shock
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/system-shock-redux-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia System Shock received a brand new trailer and showed the game in action. This remaster of the 1994 classic was rebuilt on Unreal Engine 4 and allows you to once again face off against the ruthless A.I. Shodan. It also teased a demo may be headed our way soon.Cardaclylsm
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/cardaclysm-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Face off against the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the card battle game called Cardaclysm. It is a procedurally generated collectible card game that mixes in action-RPG elements.Uragun
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/uragun-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac Uragun is a top-down shooter that rewards your "instinct and exploration of combat synergies." You take control of Uragun, the deadliest tactical weapon humanity has ever created.EXO ONE
Platforms: Windows Take an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey in EXO ONE as you pilot an alien craft through both space and time. EXO ONE features a gravity-based movement system and has players transforming between a sphere and a glider to maintain momentum and explore the vast reaches of the universe.Almighty: Kill Your Gods
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/almighty-kill-your-gods-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Almighty: Kill Your Gods has players… well… attempting to kill gods along with demons and monsters. Almighty is an action-RPG that can be played solo or with up to four friends. Players can “run, leap, and fly across islands” all while destroying any enemy in your path and rebuilding your home with their remains.Roki
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/roki-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Nintendo Switch Roki is a dark fairy tale that features a deep narrative, puzzles, and exploration. It is inspired by Scandinavian folklore and is the debut title from two ex-Guerilla Games art directors.Genesis Noir
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Xbox one [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/11/genesis-noir-e3-2019-trailer"] Genesis Noir is a noir adventure that is set before, during and after the Big Bang. Players will be able to explore everything from black holes to primordial Earth to jazz cades. Genesis Noir allows you to witness the birth and history of mankind, while also possibly finding a way to “destroy creation” itself.Doors of Insanity
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/doors-of-insanity-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Collectible card game? Purgatory? Mix the two and you have Doors of Insanity. Create your own custom character, build your deck, and “journey to the paradise you deserve.”A Juggler's Tale
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/a-jugglers-tale-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch A Juggler’s Tale follows Abby, an artiste that is held captive at a circus. During the day, she entertains families and kids of all ages, yet at night she is stuck in a cage, dreaming of freedom. One day she escapes and has her chance to find what she’s been fighting so long for. However, she soon finds out how dangerous the outside world is. This game takes place in a war-torn, medieval fairytale world that sees Abby “surrounded by ravaged, starving citizens and and hunted by the relentless cut-throat Tonda.”Lake
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/lake-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Take on the role of "40-something" Meredith Weiss in 1986, who has returned to her home of Providence Oaks in Oregon. She changed her life and is now filling in for her dad, a mail carrier. Players have a ton of choice and will decide how this personal story develops.Urban Trial Tricky
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/urban-trial-tricky-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Nintendo Switch This Switch game has players getting on a motorbike and pulling off incredible, gravity-defying tricks. UTT has a bunch of style, and has players using freestyle, breakdance, and FMX moves to complete any challenge.Boyfriend Dungeon
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/boyfriend-dungeon-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Nintendo Switch Boyfriend Dungeon is a dungeon crawling experience that sets itself apart by having your weapons transform into a host of potential boyfriends.Colt Canyon
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/colt-canyon-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Colt Canyon has players shooting through a hostile canyon full of “hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum!” This game also features a stylish pixel-art design and has rougelike elements and real-time combat.Slay the Spire
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/01/25/slay-the-spire-review"] Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, Windows, Linux Slay the Spire, the popular card-based roguelike, is now available on iOS. In our review of Slay the Spire, we said "Slay the Spire takes some of the best parts of deckbuilding games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers and mixes them into a wholly new and extremely satisfying package. It encourages experimentation, gives you time to make mistakes, and will challenge you immensely as you navigate your way through floor after floor of entertaining, puzzle-like fights. It’s an idea so good that it’s inspired a dozen games like it before it even left early access, but is executed so well that none of them even come close to matching it.Rigid Force Redux
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Rigid Force Redux is a classic shoot-em up in a modern 3D world. Face off against hordes of infected aliens and machines that are programmed to wage an intergalatic war against mankind.Outbuddies DX
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/outbuddies-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Outbuddies DX is a non-linear metroidvania that is all about Old Gods, strange creatures, and remnants of a lost world. Also, it is available toiday for Xbox One, Switch, and PC.Baldur's Gate 3
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/baldurs-gate-3-new-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Google Stadia Larian Studios has announced that Baldur's Gate 3 will enter Early Access in August 2020... maybe. The news was announced during Day 1 of the Guerrilla Collective and Larian Studios cautioned that it is planning on the August 2020 release date, but warns that is only if there are no more significant delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Disco Elysium
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/disco-elysium-guerilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac Disco Elysium is now available on the Epic Games Store. In our 9.6/10 review for Disco Elysium, we said "Disco Elysium is a unique blend of noir-detective fiction, traditional pen-and-paper RPGs, and a large helping of existentialist theory. Its twisting plot, cast of memorable characters, and sheer depth of choice combine to create an experience that begs to be savoured. A few minor gripes aside, it hits on almost every single one of the marks it sets out to achieve and left me yearning to spend more time in its world."West of Dead
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/west-of-dead-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch West of Dead is a dark western set in Purgatory, Wyoming. Mystic enemies, dark powers, and the desert sun all come into play in this gritty western shooter.Dwarf Fortress
Platforms: Windows Developer Tarn Adams showcased a new version of Dwarf Fortress that will be heading to Steam.Valheim
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/valheim-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Valheim is a nordic-inspired 3D action-adventure game. Fight trolls and rival clans as you make your way through the land.Ultrakill
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/ultrakill-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Ultrakill is a Doom-like shooter. Skulls, demons, hordes of enemies, shoot them all.Children of Morta
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/08/07/children-of-morta-official-release-date-trailer"] Children of Morta will be getting new characters with a free DLC update.Frostpunk: Project TVADGYCGJR
Dusk
Platforms: Windows Take the battle to “mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants, and even darker forces” in this retro FPS shooter that is inspired by the classics of the genre from the 90s like Doom and Wolfenstein.Fights in Tight Spaces
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/fights-in-tight-spaces-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Console platforms not announced yet Fights in Tight Spaces is a stylish deck-building, turn-based tactics game reminiscent of classic action movies.Liberated
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/liberated-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows Liberated is a hand-drawn, comic-inspire shooter where you join the revolution and take on the system. Liberated will be released in July 2020.Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch This 2D platforming title is inspired by many of the 16 and 32-bit classics that came before it and takes place in a handcrafted steampunk world. Join Aletheia and many other unique characters as they try to discover the secrets of the city of Canaan, the last bastion of mankind.Swimsanity!
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/20/swimsanity-announcement-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Swimsanity! is a multiplayer underwater shooter. Use power-ups and your aquatic powers to survive the underwater world.No Place for Bravery
Windows, Mac, Nintendo Switch No Place for Bravery is a top-down action RPG the combines violence with parental abandonment and will be releeased in 2021.Haven
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/haven-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Haven is an indie-JRPG where ou play as a couple in a mysterious land. Combining open-world JRPG design with 2D dating-sim elementsGONNER 2
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/gonner-2-guerrilla-collective-trailer"] Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch GONNER 2 brings Ikk back and he's been hired by Death to help her take down a mysterious presence that has taken over her lair.Just Die Already
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/13/just-die-already-death-stranding-parody-trailer-guerrilla-collective"] Platforms: Windows Just Die Already spoofs the debut trailer for Death Stranding in its own announcement trailer. What does it mean? Who knows! Developing...Skelattack Review – Bone-Dry
Lacking meat on its bones, Skelattack has disjointed pieces and parts that add up to create an awkward, though heartwarming, side-scrolling platformer. You can see snippets of a precise platformer in Skelattack, but they are too sporadic and underutilized to really make you sweat. In a game centered on a human invasion of the afterlife, there sure aren't very many enemies, and most of them remain in place or move like molasses, emulating the dead far more than the warm-blooded humans they're supposed to be. Skelattack's identity crisis is further fueled by its far too brief length, which prevents any of its solid ideas from coming into their own.
Starring a chipper skeleton named Skully and his lovable bat-pal Imber, Skelattack tells the story of a peculiarly joyous world of the dead, dubbed Aftervale, that's suddenly invaded by the wretched humans who seek immortality.
Developed by Ukuza, Skelattack is the debut title in Konami's new push to publish games made by Western studios. And while your mind likely jumps to Castlevania when you think Konami, Skelattack doesn't evoke the labyrinthine design of the publisher's influential franchise. Instead, what you get is a linear world with few instances where you're able to go off the beaten path to uncover hidden chests with upgrades or currency. The world is separated into a handful of different areas, each with its own obstacles to pass and enemies to either avoid or eliminate. All of them wind up feeling rather similar in practice, since Skelattack doesn't really build on its mechanics over time.
Continue Reading at GameSpotSkelattack Review – Bone-Dry
Lacking meat on its bones, Skelattack has disjointed pieces and parts that add up to create an awkward, though heartwarming, side-scrolling platformer. You can see snippets of a precise platformer in Skelattack, but they are too sporadic and underutilized to really make you sweat. In a game centered on a human invasion of the afterlife, there sure aren't very many enemies, and most of them remain in place or move like molasses, emulating the dead far more than the warm-blooded humans they're supposed to be. Skelattack's identity crisis is further fueled by its far too brief length, which prevents any of its solid ideas from coming into their own.
Starring a chipper skeleton named Skully and his lovable bat-pal Imber, Skelattack tells the story of a peculiarly joyous world of the dead, dubbed Aftervale, that's suddenly invaded by the wretched humans who seek immortality.
Developed by Ukuza, Skelattack is the debut title in Konami's new push to publish games made by Western studios. And while your mind likely jumps to Castlevania when you think Konami, Skelattack doesn't evoke the labyrinthine design of the publisher's influential franchise. Instead, what you get is a linear world with few instances where you're able to go off the beaten path to uncover hidden chests with upgrades or currency. The world is separated into a handful of different areas, each with its own obstacles to pass and enemies to either avoid or eliminate. All of them wind up feeling rather similar in practice, since Skelattack doesn't really build on its mechanics over time.
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