It’s all the time good to see a well-known idea filtered by one other tradition’s lens, and the lately introduced Hyakki Castle appears simply what the physician ordered for Legend of Grimrock followers wanting one other repair of dungeon exploration, party-building and monster-mashing, and it’s lower than a month away.
Coming from new Japanese outfit Asakusa Studios, Hyakki Castle is nearly precisely what you’d think about a Japanese Grimrock would appear to be. Familiar grid-based, real-time motion, party-based fight and your regular assortment of puzzles and traps refreshed by a new setting and a gallery of bizarre monsters, spirits and fiends to hassle. Check out this trailer:
Everything proven of the sport thus far needs to be acquainted to followers of the sub-genre spawned by Dungeon Master approach again within the ’80s, solely with an Edo-period Japanese setting replete with all the parable & legend implied. Your social gathering can be assembled from a combination of human Samurai and Ninja, but additionally Oni (Ogres), Tengu (Long-nosed raven-demons) and Nekomata (Cat-people) amongst others, and loads of unknown creatures picked from Japanese folklore. How many do you recognise above?
Moving in the wrong way to final month’s similarly-styled Vaporum, moderately than boil the motion right down to a single social gathering member, Hyakki’s Castle permits your Four-member social gathering to separate up and assault from two instructions without delay, splitting your discipline of view. The hand-eye coordination so as to do that effectively goes to be excessive, but it surely ought to make for a enjoyable problem; Like patting your head and rubbing your tummy, however with swords, whereas being menaced by Japanese ghosts. I’ve a sense this may occasionally result in some fiercely complicated puzzles as effectively.
As an apart, It’s all the time good to see Gashadokuro (the large skeleton within the trailer) discovering work. It’s been somewhat skinny on the bottom ever because the Castlevania collection fell out of vogue. You’d be shocked at how little demand there’s for ‘Skeleton, But Huge’ roles in video games nowadays, even when he has been at it for hundreds of years.
Hyakki Castle is because of launch on November 15th, and is listed on Steam now if you wish to wishlist, observe or in any other case monitor its launch. Hit its official site for extra.
