A reputation carries energy on this planet of video games. It usually units the tone of a chunk, determines simply what number of puns RPS can get out of it earlier than having to play it straight, and (in some much less lucky circumstances) might invite authorized eagles to peck out a developer’s eyes.
The recreation previously generally known as Spellbound – a magical school-life RPG from Starbound builders and writer Chucklefish – is now formally generally known as Witchbrook. A easy ward that ought to shield the sport from the howling mass of brand-enforcement gremlins most definitely already clawing on the studio’s home windows.
The official title change was tweeted out by studio head Fiin ‘Tiyuri’ Bryce, together with the brand new emblem for the sport, and a vertically stacked shot of (presumably) a potion-brewing classroom. Despite there being no new info on the sport, responses to the announcement are… enthusiastic, to say the least. Gushing, even, and a good few commenters proceed to attract comparisons between the sport and Netflix-hosted anime collection Little Witch Academia.
As good as Spellbound sounded on paper, it wasn’t precisely the rarest of names. In movie alone, the title has been used no less than thrice since 1945, in accordance with IMDB, so it’s simple to know Chucklefish’s early renaming. Both Alice and Phillipa coated the sport previously generally known as Spellbound final 12 months in barely extra element, revealing its concentrate on interpersonal relationships and Young Adult drama over historically videogame’y heroism and end-of-the-world eventualities.
We’ll be gazing past the veil and scrying what we are able to of Witchbrook’s nature as and when Chucklefish give us a peek.
