Mason Lindroth’s 2015 RPG Hylics is a sport I need folks to see. I need you to heat you eyes with its surreal and meaty clay-ish world, fill you ears with its warbling guitar, tingle your mind with its frozen burritos and ablative holopleather, transfer your fingers in sync with the spellcasting gestures, and chill your backbone with the claymation flesh melting off your bizarre crescent head when your fella dies. Encountering it’s a delight. And now aw heck, come on, come watch this new trailer for the sequel I’d forgotten was coming. What a deal with to be reminded of Hylics 2!
Amazing scenes.
Hylics resembles a JRPG: you have interaction in turn-based fight, accumulate gadgets, stage up, collect celebration members, transfer your fella round an overworld map, and all that. It additionally doesn’t remotely resemble a JRPG, being constructed from clay, digitised video (I feel?), and different media.
God, Hylics 2 seems beautiful. Its surreal type additionally makes every thing shocking as a result of it’s to this point past the style’s common terminology and visible language. Who is aware of what a Poolman enemy will do? And what ought to I anticipate from the Poolwine potential the place I see my character’s leather-clad fingers swirling a glass of wine? I do not know however am excited to seek out out.
The sequel appears extra elaborate too. I’m delighted by every thing I see. What a sport!
Hylics 2 is due out a while in 2018. In the meantime, you may observe Mason Lindroth’s progress on his dev blog and the primary Hylics is £2/€three/$three on Steam and Itch.
