Salt and Sanctuary, or: Dark Symphony of the Souls Night, Indie Edition

What is says on the tin.

Before I start playing this: It’s entirely 100% co-opable without any shenanigans regarding multiplayer, so you can just drop into and out of your friends’ games without having to Roleplay the entire process.

I have it on PS4. Hint hint.

The only thing that kinda gets me is the weird Ninja-Turtle-Lookin’ humans in this game, but eh. If I could put up with Hey Arnold Link in Wind Waker, I can put up with Donatello Souls Character I guess.

HEY LOOK A TRAILER

I really hope there’s a mechanic involving salt, and that the title isn’t some dateable twitch meme.

There is indeed a mechanic involving salt, and the idea of the ocean air causing rust and decay is a prevalent one in the game.

I’m gonna get mega ripped and stream this for a bit, I think, if anyone wants to see it:

https://www.twitch.tv/mattdjwarner/profile

Edit: Whoops, it’s not available for another 2 1/2 hours. Alrright, I’ll start streaming it around 9PM PST I guess.

hahaha holy shit. thank you for that

HE IS THOUGH.

I swear I am the only person in the universe who hates that Link. I love the art style of Wind Waker, except for that fucking idiotic-looking football headed Link. To this day I have no idea what the fuck they were thinking. Who thought “Yeah let’s make Link look like a fucked up cross between Stewie from Family Guy and Willow Ufgood” and why was that person not immediately fired?

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Why. Who thought this was a good idea.

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can’t say i agree but i really love how passionate you are about this! :stampstampstamp:

It’s been a long-standing point of contention between me and seemingly every other human alive.

That and I thought Suikoden II sucked.

Aw, I think Wind Waker Link is adorable!

wind waker link inarguably rules

also hey turns out there is one shenanigan re: co-op and it’s that you have to be on the same fucking couch so THANKS FOR GETTING MY HYPE ALL UP FOR NOTHING

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WHAT I was led to believe it had online co-op what the hell balls

I know that a lot of indies do local co-op nowadays because of Reasons but boy does it make things hard!

boy having looked into this more thoroughly for the last ten minutes or so this sure looks like a master class in point-missing

though full disclosure I am playing elliot quest atm

anyway, still curious, please report back, etc

wind waker link inarguably rules

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wind waker link inarguably rules

Is this the charlie murder guys?

hmmph.

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ska studios, formerly totally screwed studios, mostly the work of one james silva and now his wife too apparently

developed the best river city ransom fangame, zombie smashers x

i haven’t gotten to play any of his stuff for like a decade because he went x360 exclusive with using xna and all, so this is cool

So yeah this is pretty much exactly what you would expect when you combine Dark Souls and Symphony of the Night times Indie Budget (not a bad thing, just means no VO, etc.)

Kinda hard to tell how big it is at this point, but things are already branching around nicely, and I wandered into an area I shouldn’t have gone and was promptly annihilated by a surprise boss.

You guys would actually really like this game.

Although I should point out that this game doesn’t wear its inspiration on its sleeve so much as don a skin suit made from it, such is the attempt to cling to the aesthetic and feel and soforth. Weirdly, though, it works.

based on their previous games I have zero faith this game has good friction and I hate flash-style art.

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I was wondering how a 2D Dark Souls/Bloodborne would work. Pretty interesting how it’s implemented. Thanks for the heads up!