Rising Star Games, the minds behind titles such as Harvest Moon for 3DS (couple of my favourites) and titles such as Cloudbuilt and Deadly Premonition have announced the release of a new arcade pixel art style rogue like game called 88 Heroes.
On its day of announcement the team revealed 88 Heroes will be released in 88 days with 88 characters, 88 levels, 88 seconds per level and 88… wait no 4 worlds. From the trailer the most interesting mechanic to note is that every hero seems to possess an individual ability. This is an individual mechanic for every hero which will be fascinating to experiment with. Every-time you die you get a new hero with different abilities. They have announced a number of different modes the game can be played. The classic mode has you utilizing all 88 heroes to prevent the world from being destroyed. Other modes challenge you to work as a team with a few other characters or even only use one character on a permadeath mode.
I can 88 Heroes developing the same fan-base following that Super Meat Boy developed. There will be a few of us who will play the story through and enjoy all of the quirky game design such as ‘Gonan’, a barbarian spin-off of the Arnold variety. But then there will be the few of us that will try to master every character and is abilities because I can forsee Rising Star Games adding some really difficult achievements to this game for perfectionists to reach for.
Here is the announcement trailer below.
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