Apogee Entertainment is a reputation many older players will keep in mind from titles like Duke Nukem and Raptor: Call of the Shadows again in the day and newer followers may know them from titles like Turbo Overkill.
Now, they’ve teamed up with Eric Manahan from The Matte Black Studio to announce a brand new journey platformer referred to as LUCID. Described as a Celestoidvania, the action-packed sport will attempt to observe “the movement tech of Celeste, the precision platforming of Cave Story, and the world-building of Souls-like giants.” That seems like a reasonably tall order and in the event that they pull it off it’ll be nice.
Explore Aedyn, an enigmatic land replete with crystals, in the wake of the apocalyptic Great Fall. The Lucid Giant has fallen and solely the few remaining Sentinels, practitioners of the Crystal Arts, can cease the corruption soaking the land. Take up the combat as Oenn, a younger, stone-skinned Junior Sentinel. Seek the shattered items of the Lucid Giant and confront the traditional, celestial entity which threatens Aedyn.
As you play LUCID, you’ll collect 5 Crystal Arts after finishing dungeons. These will improve your skills in fight and your mobility that can assist you defeat stronger enemies and attain beforehand unaccessible areas. You may even equip as much as two Crystal Arts at a time and swap between them mid-combo for extra potential. Talking concerning the sport, Manahan stated:
With LUCID, I’m dedicated to letting gamers inform as a lot of the story as they like, in exactly their very own manner. From the narrative threads you select to tug on, to the Crystal Arts and motion tech you embrace essentially the most, LUCID goals to allow you to write your individual legend in a shattered world of platforming bliss.
Scott Miller of Apogee shared:
Apogee acquired its begin with some fairly well-known platform video games in the early ‘90s, like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Cosmo’s Cosmic Canyon, Bio Menace, and Monster Bash. It makes whole sense for us to get again into platformers and with LUCID, we lastly discovered one which’s revolutionary, deep with story, and has an excellent enjoyable lead character with a ton of methods up his jacket sleeve.
You can add LUCID to your wishlist on Steam now with a deliberate launch date of “COMING SOON.” I simply wouldn’t maintain my breath although because the press launch does state that the sport might be coming to Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in 2024. Check out the trailer beneath and let me know if you happen to’re in this sport.
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