Genre: 2D, Metroidvania, Hack n Slash, Adventure, Singleplayer.
Platform: PC and Consoles
Audience: Gamers that enjoy an epic single-player adventure with environmental storytelling and exciting fast-paced gameplay will enjoy this game. This is for those who along their deep mechanics enjoy a beautifully stylized world to explore.
Game Description: Life as a mercenary is less luxurious than people might expect, the pay might be fair but every battle feels to make you feel less and less about the acts you do. You are an ex-knight after the kingdom escaped a time of war and the transition to peace made you change to the mercenary you are now but life seems to have less and less purpose the more you go on. Until one day one specific job embarks you on a self-exploring journey. You receive a letter that promises good pay for a job so you go on to follow where the letter leads, feeling it will be somewhat worth it. You go to the destination and only see a little girl hiding in a closet. She tells you that her parents sent that letter asking for a mercenary’s protection but it was too late, they were taken. You decide to help this girl find her parents again, and so your mission begins.
The Gameplay is a hack and slash where you walk in a side-scrolling platform setting with varying degrees of platforming levels. Many enemies appear throughout the screen. You perform combos from using a slash and a special button. Slashes vary from the directional input of the attack from neutral, side, down and up. Specials act the same way and mixing and matching input you perform special combos. A trigger appears to enemies you have lowered their guard enough and triggers the opportunity to throw an enemy, enemies can be thrown towards walls for extra damage or towards other enemies to damage them. Many different areas you traverse to continue your journey and find more treasures and secrets to upgrade your equipment and scrolls to learn more combos and unlock extra power.
graphic reference from dust and elysian tail http://fizmarble.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dust-An-Elysian-Tail-gameplay-2012-08-11-05-35-20_thumb.png
music inspired fromfire emblem fates ost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDs4mLQomGs
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox ONE, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Platformer, 2D, Pixel art, Stealth, Single player adventure
Audience: For those who enjoy a good challenge on their platformer games and love to play as a character that sneaks around undetected with very agile movements. Interesting mechanics that make for a challenging and interesting speed run.
Description: You are a creature from the shadows, contracted to do lots of different kinds of the task but mostly all of them require you to infiltrate and stay in the shadows undetected. Sometimes this means to steal the treasure of a castle or assassinate someone in a heavily guarded mansion. Your skills are what determine whether or not you complete your missions. You have a good amount of movement options in your arsenal. Of the like that allows you to dash and air dash across the screen. Hide in people’s shadows, short teleport to get to certain terrains, wall jump and finally your trusty dagger that does a little more than stabbing.
Every location invites you to jump, dive and sprint across its terrain, finding the best route to clear your objective and get out with the least amounts of casualties. Of course, whenever there is the need to dispose of bodies you will be required to do so. The environments will be your most viable and only ally as you venture through them in this sidescroller fast pace adventure. Be wary of enemies because they may spot you to the point of losing the mission.
art by Daniel Bogni, (Castlevania Symphony of the Night) https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/002/009/324/medium/daniel-bogni-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night.jpg?1455896064
