Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn Seems To Build On Ashen's Emphasis On Cooperation

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Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is developer A44 Games' sophomore effort, following 2018 soulslike Ashen. Though Flintlock isn't a sequel to Ashen, the upcoming open-world action RPG seems to build upon Ashen's focus on cooperation and community. Flintlock's combat is faster, its character models are more detailed, and its world looks a whole lot bigger, but at its core, the game similarly explores the concept of attaining great power through strong relationships. It's a narrative theme that made for an interesting soulslike in Ashen, and I hope the same can be said for Flintlock.

Flintlock takes place in a fantasy world where mankind is nearly extinct and engaging in a last-ditch effort to defeat the gods, who have gone to war against humanity with an army of the undead. Humanity's best bet is the coalition army, a group that uses gunpowder to even the fight against the gods' magic. You play as Nor Vanek, a member of the coalition army, who has a personal vendetta against the gods. She's joined by Enki, a strange creature with his own issues with the gods, who augments Nor's abilities with magic.

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A44 chose this kind of setting for Flintlock--where magic and firearms coexist as equally powerful tools within a fantasy world--due to its rarity in games. «It is a big genre within books, but it's never been taken to film too much, or especially to games,» Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn game director Hayden Asplet said during a preview of the game. «So we wanted to dive into that. It's an