2D Action Game Moonscars Delivers Creepy Bloodborne-Like Energy In New Release Date Trailer
Black Mermaid's challenging action-platformer Moonscars is built on its mystery, dropping you into its unforgiving and nonlinear 2D world that's filled to the brim with all manner of monsters that are keeping you from the answers you seek. And thanks to a new trailer, we now know Moonscars is coming on September 27.
Moonscars sees you play as Grey Irma, a clayborne (a being fashioned of clay, bone, and ichor) who is driven to track down her creator, the Sculptor, in order to ask him why she and her siblings were forged, why they all are now separated and alone, and why she can't remember those answers for herself. This is clearly a personal quest for Grey--she's hoping to find a purpose for her existence, and whether a being born of alchemy like her can even possess a soul.
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And though I do feel for her, I'm far more concerned with learning as to what the hell happened to the world around her. What exactly happened that's left civilization in ruins and seemingly most of its people mutated into monstrous beasts of clay?
«It's that kind of story where hopefully the players will want to discover it as they progress,» Moonscars artist and animator Ştefan Semionov told me. «For us personally, it's interesting and cool. It is a bit vague at the start--there are a couple of cutscenes, lots of dialogue.»
As seen in the game's trailers, Moonscars' narrative seems to have strong Bloodborne and Hollow Knight energy--the type of experience I want to play all the way through and
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