The Messenger Developers Raise Over $150,000 To Make Classic JRPG
Screenshot: Sabotoge
The makers of the spectacular retro motion platformer The Messenger have introduced their subsequent recreation: a gorgeous-looking turn-based role-playing recreation known as Sea of Stars.
Sabotage revealed the upcoming recreation on Kickstarter yesterday, the place it’s already damaged its $90,000 funding purpose. Whereas not deliberate to launch on consoles and PC till someday in 2022, what the studio confirmed off in its announcement trailer already has me wanting to return and revisit among the basic 16-bit and 32-bit JRPGs like Chrono Set off and Suikoden.
The builders promise some attention-grabbing battle mechanics, together with spell-breaks whereby enemy assaults might be canceled if sufficient harm is finished and “Eclipse orbs” which are earned all through a struggle and might be spent to massively increase the ability of sure assaults and skills.
In any other case there are a selection of acquainted JRPG bullet factors just like the promise of no random encounters, timed-attack and blocking bonuses just like the Paper Mario video games, and an overworld map to discover and sail round in.
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Regardless of being from a very totally different style, Sea of Stars is meant to be a prequel to 2018’s The Messenger. Sabotage plans to construct the sense of a shared universe with some characters making cameos. Not a whole lot of video games get retro homages proper, however The Messenger did a wonderful job of remixing among the finest bits of Ninja Guiden and Metroid.
It’s unclear how a lot of this can pan out for the ultimate launch, as Kickstarter initiatives are notoriously unpredictable. But when Sea of Stars is something like Sabatoge’s final recreation, it might be one thing fairly particular.
