Atlus, Japanese publisher of games like 3D Dot Game Heroes, Catherine*, and the weirdly apostrophized Demon’s Souls, is taking another run at dark fantasy. Here’s an early glimpse of The Cursed Crusade, a co-op combat game set in the middle ages:
Like Enslaved or Army of Two, The Cursed Crusade boasts binary lead characters, with dual protagonists Denz and Esteban running down enemies as a team. If you want to play the game alone, you’ll control Denz and work along an AI-managed Esteban, but splitscreen and internet co-op will let you choose either character. It’s early, but the game is looking very sharp so far.
It’s currently in the hands of French developer Kylotonn Entertainment, so don’t expect to harvest any of Demon’s Souls‘ Demons’ Souls. The Cursed Crusades begins a thoughtful meditation on the Caliphate in Summer 2011.
*Oh my gosh
Source: spawnkill
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Demon's Souls. The game that walks like a man.
It's good to include that bit at the end for the GameStop set. Not everybody gets the difference between the money and the talent – here, the publisher and the developer, respectively. Seeing as this is not coming from From Software (haha), I'd expect something of middling interest at best. Can't be too hard on the devs – their last title never saw the light of day, due to hella janky publisher shenanigans back in '06. However, this is a action melee combat game. Their last was a quasi-mmo third person shooter, from what I remember. No similarity means no software quality reprodcability. Hope they've got spec nailed down early.
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