A few minutes after my first look North walkI thought Wait, is it actually a game? Is it not a movie cutscene? What I watched looked like a wonderful low film about animated detention, but soon I realized that Moonhood Studios programmers show me material from the game in real time.
North walk It looks as much as the movie Stop, a la phil tippett’s Good food Or Old tool moviesPartly because the characters, monsters and environmental environment consist of real physical materials. Klaus Lyngled from Moonhood claims that the studio carved about 700 objects, in 3D they recorded them and turned them into multi -host models. The characters are animated with a foot jam, and the camera has a shallow field depth to complement the appearance.
Lyngled and writer Olov Redmalm describe their first -person, narrative puzzle game as a “cozy horror” full of eccentric freaks and genial monsters. The story includes many chapters of fairy tales, but there is a consistent topic among them: warmth, contrast and restoration of lithe to the gloomy world.
North walk It starts with the main character of the game, burned, digging out of the grave and repairing your body. While traveling through the title highway in the north, a walk, they are joined by a charming and stupid diminutive creature known as Potboy. This guide and companion have some brushes more on their heads; Using the Potboy flame and a series of matches, lithe torch players to bring lithe in the north walk and the fight of enemies.
During the game there is a bit of a puzzle and hiding, and even a button devoted to closing your eyes simply … listening. (Moonhood promises a binaural sound and suggests that players are experiencing North walk When wearing headphones). There is even “shooting” – the programmers showed a burned, buying weapons that shoots avid matches, giving the player an extended range to battle monsters and solving puzzles.
While the majority North walk He is employed with a “cozy” description, mainly thanks to Potboy, there is also really terrifying things here. Each monster and boss are a certain differences on a twisted freak: there are cyclopic mutants, giant spiders reminiscent of spiders, leathery strange with eyes pressed, and furious snail creatures with rage problems.
Inspirations on the developer’s list (Above the garden wallIN A nightmare before ChristmasDavid Lynch, Half-Life 2) were evident in my view of the eyes, but the combination of influences and displaying the display North walk I feel distinguished from the projects that appeared before him. Suffice it to say that I can’t wait for the modern Moonhood game, something that wasn’t really on my radar last week.
Fortunately, waiting for the game will be low. North walk He comes to PlayStation 5 (with PlayStation VR2 support) and Windows PC via Steam on May 8.
