Superbrothers, the co-creators of Sword & Sworcery EP, at the moment introduced their subsequent game, Jett: The Far Shore. It’s an open-world exploration game scouting an alien ocean planet with systemic immersive sim-y bits occurring and ooh I’m . This time they’re collaborating with Pine Scented and, pertinent to your pursuits: the gang additionally drafted design assist from Randy Smith, a Thief veteran and the designer of Waking Mars. Do go on.
“There’s a type of videogame I’ve longed for, a traditional enough console action adventure that can reel me in with character, story and concept but that then lets me cut loose, go fast, be clever and soak in rich audio and music,” Craig D. Adams of Superbrothers stated within the announcement.
Jett: The Far Shore is coming to PC via the Epic Games Store this vacation season (October-November-ish) in addition to to PlayStations. See its website for extra.
Randy Smith can be gushing, blurbing: “Jett has everything I look for in a video game – exploration, adventure, a riveting story, a richly drawn world – this along with the fresh tone and startling vision we saw from Superbrothers in Sword & Sworcery. It’s breathtaking to experience that aesthetic evolved successfully into 3D and a much larger scope. My role was to enrich the open world systemic gameplay using my immersive sim background.”
I’ll forgive this gushing as a result of I’m lifeless curious to discover all of it myself. As Old Man Kieron Gillen wrote in our Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery review after the collaboration with Capy got here to PC in 2012:
“It’s a game which looks like its personal world, like an journey, and discovering its secrets and techniques (and questioning about what it obliquely hints at) is a advantageous strategy to spend 4 hours and/or one month of your life.
“Most importantly, the grizzled boor’s penis is amazing.”
Oh Kieron.
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