During right this moment’s Nintendo indie showcase stream, Flight School Studio had their very own PC-bound bizarre tackle the hack n’ slash dungeon crawler to announce; Creature In The Well. Part melee fight, half bullet hell, half pinball, and all trendy, because of a mixture of comic-style shading results that I don’t assume I’ve ever seen in 3D earlier than. Players management a sword-swinging robotic because it descends right into a subterranean labyrinth, defeating turret-dense safety methods by deflecting bouncing bullets again into the tightly clustered defences. The announcement trailer lurks under.
It’s the look that instantly attracts me into Creature In The Well. The onerous, clear shading on the atmosphere permits them to drag off methods just like the effectively itself being a void of absolute blackness, punctuated solely by the fingers and glowing eyes of the titular Creature. Whether the creature is even a direct antagonist is questionable, with the official screenshots together with a snap of a friendly, three-eyed purple alien rockabilly crocodile-spider hybrid called Danielle. Clearly, this can be a bizarre planet, full of bizarre inhabitants, and to date all of the enemies proven are mechanical in nature.
I’m desirous to get my fingers on the game and get a really feel for its odd mix of evasion and ball-bouncing. The projectiles seem to maneuver shortly, however the trailer makes rebounding them along with your improvised, sword-shaped pinball flipper look surprisingly simple. The primary risk appears to come back from bigger assaults, that are effectively telegraphed. Creature In The Well isn’t the primary game to combine ball-bashing and monster-slaying, both. There’s some notable outdated examples on consoles, however I would like to offer a fast shout-out to 10S by Owch, a intelligent mix of bullet-dodging and tennis with a mid-game style shift you actually need to see, and will fill the hole till Creature In The Well launches.
Creature In The Well is due out this summer season. You can discover it here on Steam, or its official page here.
