The French studio Sandfall Interactive enjoys a well -deserved lap of victory Clear unclear: Expedition 33The company’s first game since its foundation in 2020, It sells as sizzling – Although maybe pancakes would be more appropriate baked – and put positive reviews and lips. A lot of this success revolves around lively battles based on tournament and engaging history, but it is complex to deny this part BrightUnique, aesthetics in the style of Belle époque also plays, helping to stand out in the Game of the Year race.
Belle époque should be familiar with the readers of a polygon thanks Lies P“Pinocchio SoulsleLike”, which has transformed from the bizarre Mashup Mad Libs into an overwhelming achievement for South Korean developers, Neowiz and Round8 Studios almost day by day when it started in September 2023, because more and more studies are trying to recreate the Dark Souls formula – equal to the difficulty, intuitive explore and complicated. boss battles – Lies P There was probably the first game of the company that was not mentioned from the software, which is worthy of the Soulslike label. This is also the first game you should play after finishing BrightIf you haven’t done it yet, because they both create a fascinating Duology in conversation with each other and the ups and downs of the period in French history, from which they derive inspiration.
Just like with BrightAttention paying Lies P It was built on the gameplay and mighty narrative sides, in particular the combination of time-honored soul mechanics with a fantastic history based on the classic Pinocchio fairy tale. However, some of these bulky lifts took place thanks to his visualization. Lies P It was positively compared to the Gothic successor of Dark Souls Bloodborne Initially pink and although it is true that there is some stylistic overlap between them, the developers went home instead Lies PInspirations, repeating two French words as part of the game: Belle époque.
Belle époque – or “Beautiful era” – refers to the episode of French history, from the overdue 1800s. Until the beginning of World War I in 1914. It was a period in which French society was considered, at least in retrospect, to experience the hoom of economic and cultural achievements. Lies P And now Bright Technological progress, outfit and architecture of the era are influenced. The title protagonist of the former and many enemies he meets is impossible to moderate clock slot machines. The non-compliance with the outfit of the latter, that a military attire that would be at home on the streets of 20th-century Paris as a falling, almost melted Eiffel Tower over their destroyed civilization.
I should probably indicate this Bright It is also just as French as a frog. Player allows the player to dress his party in non-standard costumes with black and white striped shirts with crunchy baguettes as accessories whose combination would be almost offensive, if there were no obvious love lists from programmers to their own culture. Lies P He is more based on vibrations, never providing a hero with a child’s faces as much as a beret, but both games are right, this is the sweet and bitter origin of the nickname Belle époque.
While the compact “Belle époque” was a common saying at that time French speakers, they began to refer to a handful of years before World War I as the right noun during the occupation by Nazi forces in World War II. Several decades of the war left France-not mentioning a gigantic part of Europe-a burdened excavation and a mortar shell of a prosperous nation, which once hosted its own world fair in the exhibition in Paris in 1900. French society began to perceive the period of relative peace between Napoleonic and World War with nostalgia, forgetting about each of the inequalities that existed at that time and only remembering the era of its abundance and prosperity.
In a sense, Belle époque as an idea would not exist without destroying the European continent, because it was world wars that finally prompted France to look at this point in history with passion. Lies P It is full of similar kinds of melancholy. During the exploration of the bars, the metropolis ruined by very robotic servants, who once made it a lighthouse of luxury, you can almost feel the city only missing these better days. Evidence of his bountiful joy is everywhere, with smiling cutouts and extravagant posters promoting the celebrations, which now seem to be distant memories of fiery, our sorts. Without the chaos of withdrawing bars, these items would simply create a regular, considerate window sauce of a prosperous city; Only among the confusion do they finally gain meaning.
Lies P It uses this setting, like many of the best souls, as the main source of building the world. When you move in P through bars and its surrounding area, you will slowly learn more about the tragedies that led to his fall. In the same spirit, every boss struggle gives an vital story to the city’s heritage once demanded. Many massive enemies in which you meet Lies P They are not monsters, but the wayward souls, whose function and purpose have been removed and replaced by madness. Like all kinds of ordinary people, they became conscript to die while choosing mustard gas in the trenches of World War I, just as citizens and servants of the grille reduced to fat on the wheels of history. Bright maybe – forgive the puns – to party the secrets of the fall of his setting, but Lies P Boldly depicts the world that Belle époque came and disappeared. Maybe one day the citizens of the grille will be able to look for a period of brutality in favor of good times.
If you finish enjoying Lies PYou are lucky: the prequel extension is right around the corner. And finally, be sure to check The Belle époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond By the French historian Dominique Kalifa, if you want to learn more about the real Belle époque outside his relationship with these two video games. There I learned a lot of information used in this story.
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