In partnership with Ratalaika Games, Japanese-based studio Shinyuden has announced it will be bringing its brand new adventure game – Heroes Trials – to the Nintendo Switch this summer.
Heroes Trials promises to incorporate only the best elements of traditional role-playing games in order to deliver a compact and frantic experience that takes around four hours to complete. To maintain player satisfaction, repetitive quests and other aspects like grinding are excluded.
Taking place on an island, players control two different heroes as they work their way through more than ten different tests filled with puzzles, bosses and collectables. There’s also some love for speed runners, with the title able to record the time of each run. Adding to this is a narrative – helping to define the game’s goals, a navigation system, a soundtrack by composer Benedikt Grosser and the ability to play the title as a top-down shooter.
Here’s the announcement trailer:
Does this look like it would be your kind of game? Let us know in the comments.
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Looks very cheap.
In the words of James Rolfe
"This is Aaass"
lol alike if I would like to play Heroes Trials 2, if that ever happens. This one looks like a nice POC.
The graphics look subpar. Too many good games out, better try harder.
Looks like a good game for some people regardless of what you guys say about graphics or saying it is cheap.
Tis' a bit underwhelming! The gameplay looks as simple as the graphics.
Im torn between this looking like an n64 game (awesome) and someone's first smartphone game creation (not so awesome)
Camera is zoomed in too close, repeating patterns are an eyesore when it is top down like this. The enemies and hero shown don't seem designed for this viewpoint, maybe? The trees are nice and there are some bits of interesting graphics, but the art direction overall is bland for sure. Needs more time in the oven or more artists from a visual standpoint.
No idea if the game is any fun from the video. There was an interesting bit with creating platforms, a bit that seemed sh'm'up-like. Hard to tell if the game has much to offer in terms of progression or story or even any exciting action. (The article says compact and frantic, but there's not much evidence of that in the video where it looks wide open and slow).
Looks really bad and cheap.
Games like these served a purpose, during the first year, but I’m starting to see less of a reason for them to exist. The Switch already has a large library of similar titles, now they need to fill out the other genres!
Do you know what I would love to see? A semi-sequel to Golf Story, but base it around baseball, or basketball! That, and more classic point and click games!
Geeze... tough crowd.
I know these models. A friend bought them from the Unity asset store to use in a prototype of his game. Looks like Switch is about to get a bad case of asset flips disease that's tormenting Steam.
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