You guys know what looks awesome? Fuzzyeyes' Edge of Twilight, that's what. My cynical, pessimistic inner twat says that its steampunk aesthetic is just an attempt to appeal to Doctorow-influenced hipsters. The little twit also thinks that Lex, the game's rough-and-tumble bounty hunter protagonist, is a played-out archetype by now.
Fortunately, my inner twat is an impetuous child and doesn't know dick about compelling game concepts.
From what I can tell, Edge of Twilight is shaping up quite nicely -- at the very least, the concept is fascinating. The Rift has divided the world of Hellayem into Day and Night, each section populated by a different race. As a half-breed, Lex has the ability to cross the border between the two realms, which sets up some really neat environment puzzles and combat options. Fuzzyeyes CEO Wei-Yao Lu is certainly ambitious about the project, promising an aesthetically and morally compelling game, "taking inspiration from" God of War, Ico, and Soul Reaver. For some more details, go ahead and check out Jim's Q&A session with Lu -- it's really interesting.
There's a new Edge of Twilight trailer after the jump for your viewing pleasure. This is usually the point in the post where I bemoan the fact that this new "Fall" trailer doesn't feature any gameplay, but we all know how this works: Game gets announced; Game gets a story trailer to raise hype; Game gets gameplay trailers last. Besides, with a game so focused on its environments, atmosphere, and aesthetics, I think Fuzzyeyes were right to go with the cinematic trailer -- they might as well play to their strengths.
The game is due out sometime this year, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Was just gonna say I'm meeting with these guys and will hopefully have way more stuff on it. Combat looked a bit rough when I saw it at TGS, but the fundamentals were there and the art style was lovely.
This realm thing seems interesting, although I'm a little confused. Is the light and day realm like two borders seperating a country? Do you just go over the border line and enter the new country? Or do the realms overlap each other? And you just snap your fingers and your surroundings switches to a new one?
Meh, looks pretty crappy to me. The gaming industry seems to have no effing clue what the hell "Steampunk" is. Every time I see a game touting itself being "steampunk" it always looks like some shitty Bioshock or gritty Fallout 3 clone.
I'm going to just go ahead and hold out for an actual victorian-era styled game that actually manages to do Steampunk right. Something with the Girl Genius license would be pretty awesome. Even just influenced by.
It doesn't help the main character is your stereotypical douchebag "badass" that every Western game ever has to have, because anything less goes and gets all the whiny gamers' insecurities flaring up. Ugh. Yeah. I'll pass.
@Chronic -- I think they're kind of the same place. You just snap your fingers, and *poof* it's night-time. But things are different during the night and day -- your still in the same *place*, but your environments have changed.
@Joseph Leray: I don't think so. That would be kind of stupid considering the name of the game is Edge of twilight, and it would seem like the cheap choice because Metroid Prime: echoes and A link to the past both already did it.
Otherwise the game seems kind of generic, but at least the games that it is inspired by are promising.
Could be fun if it weren't for the irritating "half-x-species" bullshit. I realize it's a common hook for fantasy games, hell, fantasy in general, to make you some sort of 'special' species of humanoid whatever, and to declare it completely possible for said species to play torso tennis with anything that happens to be vaguely sapient and own one pair of legs and arms, but that doesn't keep it from bugging the hell out of me. It's a shitty idea in my opinion, and I really wish creators would stop smearing it all over the genre.
It's a real shame, too. This trailer makes the rest of the game look pretty good.
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3:00 AM on 05.30.2009
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And why is the animation studio at the end ripping their logo from Vin Diesel (and Ice Cube)'s XXX?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS2BrxcWWZA
Was just gonna say I'm meeting with these guys and will hopefully have way more stuff on it. Combat looked a bit rough when I saw it at TGS, but the fundamentals were there and the art style was lovely.
I'm going to just go ahead and hold out for an actual victorian-era styled game that actually manages to do Steampunk right. Something with the Girl Genius license would be pretty awesome. Even just influenced by.
It doesn't help the main character is your stereotypical douchebag "badass" that every Western game ever has to have, because anything less goes and gets all the whiny gamers' insecurities flaring up. Ugh. Yeah. I'll pass.
Is that about right, Jim?
Otherwise the game seems kind of generic, but at least the games that it is inspired by are promising.
PS:I'm not sure why, but this trailer remind of Gears 2
exactly what i was thinking when i watched this
It's a real shame, too. This trailer makes the rest of the game look pretty good.