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Persona 5 English Footage Coming!

We can scarcely contain ourselves. Persona 5  footage is coming next week! Head over to twitch.tv/atlususa on November 16th for all the juicy details. Squeeeeeeee!

I haven’t played, nor was I aware of, either Sacred 1 or Sacred 2. You could – rightfully – say I’m at a disadvantage picking up the story on Part 3, but never deterred, I blunder on in and take up the challenge of – hopefully – being able to pick up the pieces as the story progresses.

Once in, you’re greeted with a lengthy opening scene, but are kept from skipping this due to the quips and sly jokes added, which hope to keep your mind on the story and make sure you are actually paying attention and are not just here for the killing, though we know you really are.  I picked the “Archer” chap – as usual – and took to the game. Within minutes of playing the opening level. I see elements of Diablo andGauntlet  – look it up, kids – and I’m well away, slaughtering and looting; I’m loving it.

Add to this the noise of arrows swishing, shields thunking, a mortar from a nearby building roaring as it tumbles past and I have to admit, i’m finding all of this very impressive.

Of course, it’s not all killing. There are simple puzzles and quests to complete along the way, and you’re aided by Allies who shout out clues throughout the game. But you’ll also be goaded by enemies. too, the antagonizing lot!

Added to this, skills and tactics are needed to down even some basic mobs, making fights not just basic hack’n’slash affairs. You really do have to think while painting the floor red with the blood of the fools that cross you.

I mowed through levels one and two with relative ease. This made me believe I was some sort of deity, so I was taken aback when, within minutes of Level 3, I died!  Believing I wasn’t concentrating, I went back in and again died at the same spot. It’s here I noticed I had to start and change the way I played, as everything seemed that bit more ferocious and smarter and it really was harder.

I had to start using health potions and buying them too!  The learni...

You may remember Havoc Your Way being discussed in Kickers Corner a month or so ago. For those of you from a certain generation, as well as those that consider people of my gaming generation “Retro”, you may notice that “Havoc Your Way: The Chaos Years”  reinvigorates so many memories of what gaming classics used to be about. It does such a good job, in fact, that it may have warmed the few remaining active brain cells in our aging addling minds.

 Havoc Your Way appeared to capture elements of such games as Jack the Nipper, Spy Vs Spy, How to Be a Complete Bastard, but most of its central template came from classics Skool Daze and Back to Skool from David Reidy & Keith Warrington (Microsphere). This is definitely not a bad thing as both games were amazing in many ways. So good, in fact, that they were voted in the Top 100 of games of all time for the  ZX Spectrum  by the then fantastic Your Sinclair magazine (you had to be there)

Unfortunately, Option 4 didn’t receive the necessary amount of backing to get funded on Kickstarter, but that hasn’t slowed the team down at all.

I caught up with Richard yesterday to see what the next steps are, and whether the game will ever see release.

He had this to say…

Welcome to the first in our Kickers Corner series.

Here at ExpansiveDLC, we are going to bring your attention to the Indie games of tomorrow now appearing on Kickstarter. We’ll also be keeping you up to date with how the game does in the big wide world.

As the games are in the embryonic stages, we let the people behind the game tell us about it, providing the dreams and ideas behind their project and what they hope to achieve with the donations from yourselves.

If you’re about to launch your bid for help on Kickstarter and you would like to bring it to Kickers Corner over at ExpansiveDLC, let me know at @Villordsutch and we will get it arranged for you.

Our first look is a game called 6 Realms from Jeremy B Harris…

6 Realms

An action packed side scroll RPG b...