A prologue-style demo for an upcoming motion platformer has you wielding a magic employees and two-fisted kung fu to battle enemies and discover a metroidvania-style world of fable and magic. Akatori’s massive pitch si that your method of shifting is dependent upon a magic employees that may be thrown not simply as a weapon, however to hover in midair as a pole to leap off of.
Developer Code Wakers calls Akatori a “mix of traditional metroidvania and intense motion platformer.” In it you play as Mako, a teen raised in a temple who should take her magic purple hen employees into the land of the gods to resolve a disaster.
Akatori’s fight depends on a mix of strikes with Mako’s martial arts abilities and employees. Every assaults in its personal method, and mixing the 2 types right into a cohesive complete so that you simply’re getting essentially the most out of your strikes looks like an fascinating pitch for a various system of combos and assaults.
We first noticed Akatori again in 2021, when it debuted throughout a Guerilla Collective livestream. It drew PC Gamer author Tyler Wilde’s consideration for its vivid layers of flat colours within the fashion of a Neo Geo sport.
“With out contemplating too deeply whether or not or not I truly really feel like enjoying a brand new 2D platformer, I am a fan of Akatori’s look. The flat layers and colour palette are what I affiliate with Neo Geo arcade video games like Samurai Shodown and Metallic Slug, which to me are the peak of sprite-art (although clearly Akatori’s not so pixely),” he stated, and I am unable to assist however agree with that potent affiliation.
The Akatori: Chapter One demo takes about an hour when you’re shifting at prime velocity and is fairly pleasant for an in-development snapshot of a sport that is not but out. I discovered the visuals fairly however the controls a bit finicky now and again and unresponsive at others—particularly when making an attempt to get essentially the most from leaping off the thrown employees—most likely the sort of issues the builders need participant response to from this demo.
You could find Akatori: Chapter One without spending a dime proper now on Steam, the place you may also discover Akatori. Akatori correct does not but have a launch date.