[PSV] Soul Sacrifice

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Full unveiling on the 10th, by the looks of it.

Demon's / Dark Souls spin-off?

[Hendo]

It looks a bit Dark Souls but the From name is nowhere near it and it's an Inafune game.

Mysterious magical brawler Soul Sacrifice has been revealed as a dark, fantastical horror title from Harvest Moon developer Marvelous AQ and Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune.

The ex-Capcom developer, more recently responsible for the Dead Rising and Lost Planet series, is targeting a winter release for Soul Sacrifice in Japan, writes Famitsu (via Andriasang).

Players embody a cruel sorcerer's slave. You escape being sacrificed by plunging into the pages of a demonic book and grow stronger by experiencing the novel's battles first-hand.

The game's gruesome magical attacks involve sacrificing parts of your body. For "Excalibur", players pull out their spinal cord through their throat and brandish it as a sword.

Another attack, "Gleipnir", requires you chop off five fingers and punch your foe with the exposed bony stumps. "Gorgon" allows you to yank out your eyeballs to shoot out magic beams, while "Gungnir" is an attack that exposes your bones and nerves.

Abusing this magic will deform your character, turning them into a more demonic-looking creature.

Soul Sacrifice is currently 50 per cent complete and will support between one and four players.

Nice!

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35 minutes of translated footage from a Soul Sacrifice presentation earlier in the week:

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/05/12/25-minutes-of-soul-sacrifice

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In Soul Sacrifice, Keiji Inafune’s adding moral ambiguity to the mix so that players will feel conflicted about whether or not a monster they’re fighting should be killed or saved.

Speaking with the PS Blog, Inafune said painful decisions are part of the gameplay – apart from the fun players will have in multiplayer.

“One of the things I want to illustrate is a feeling of guilt, a feeling of complexity,” he said. “So there is sacrificing, but there is also saving. Those are the two extreme choices, the dilemma that you’ll face every time. I want you to make sacrifices, but I also want you to think about saving.

“Perhaps you’re fighting a powerful enemy but you learn that he has a sick daughter that he has to save back home by earning money in battle. When you hear this during the battle, the nice part of you might think about losing so he can save his daughter. But you want to win your battle, too.

“So you’ll feel these complex feelings. I wanted to make this a big part of the game. Can you make these extreme choices given the situation?”

Inafune believes some of the better games on today’s market contain elements of moral ambiguity, and not just how realistic or sensational the action can be made.

“The creators of the best games today have realized that they need to do something more than becoming more realistic, more sensational – it’s probably already hit the ceiling,” he said.

“They’re thinking about creating something new by including that emotional aspect. In thinking globally, in order to compete with the top game creators today, I’ve also had to think about including that emotional aspect. The games I work on will all include that as a big theme.”

Soul Sacrifice hasn’t been dated but it’s expected sometime in northern spring 2013 on Vita.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/08/24/soul-sacrifice-will-contain-painful-decisions-as-part-of-the-gameplay-inafune/

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Sony has confirmed Soul Sacrifice release dates for Europe and North America.

The Vita-exclusive action game, delayed to allow for more development time, will be out in US on April 30, and in Europe on May 1.

Players who pre-order the game will get launch-day access to exclusive DLC content, including:

• Two (2) Unique Costumes with which players can customize their character
• Three (3) Magic Items to aid players in battle:
  • Spirits' Flamepike - Shards of the spear provided by Fire spirits, unleashing a five hit combo attack with heat effects
  • Spirits' Blightstone - Explosive stones with poison effects provided by the spirits
    
  • Spirits' Fulgurwood - Root provided by the Thunder spirits. Tracks enemies on the ground and attacks with thunder spell

A pre-order will also get you access to the Japanese voice-over pack for free, which will let you play the game with the original Japanese audio track.

Soul Sacrifice sees players sacrificing objects or parts of their body to perform spells. Check out a trailer here.

The US box art is below.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/388598/soul-sacrifice-release-date-confirmed-for-us-eu/

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Demo is now live on PSN. Save transfers to the full game.

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/soul-sacrifice-demo/cid=EP9000-PCSF00257_00-SOULSACTRIALEU00

[wholehole]

Will be borrowing my mate's Vita to play this, hopefully this evening. Looks a bit Monster Hunter-y with a Dark Souls aesthetic. Can't wait to get stuck into the full game.

[radiofloyd]

Reviews:

Nowgamer - 8.5

CVG - 8.5

Destructoid - 8

IGN - 7.7

Eurogamer - 7

Polygon - 6.5

Edge - 6