Indie game publisher Merge Games has revealed that it will be turning its publishing skills up to eleven to release Valfaris on Switch in physical form.
The game is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer featuring "brutal" combat, deadly enemies, retro-inspired pixel art and a blood-pumping soundtrack. You can see how it plays out for yourself in the trailer above, but we also have this handy feature list for you below:
Key Features:
- Skulls in space! Gore in space! Metal in space!
- Savagely reduce foes to piles of gibs with an array of brutal weaponry
- Explore a diverse range of tainted environments as you venture ever deeper into the dark world of Valfaris
- Dominate ranks of deadly enemies and bosses, from the weird to the grotesque (and some that are just grotesquely weird)
- Gorge your eyes on devastatingly awesome pixel art hand-crafted by Andrew Gilmour
- Feel the power of a seismic soundtrack by extreme metaller and former Celtic Frost guitarist, Curt Victor Bryant
- Forged from the ground-up by the team behind cult hit Slain: Back From Hell
The game is scheduled to release in November 2019. Do you like the look of this one?
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Other versions of slain back from hell?
I might have to buy this even if it turns out to be crap.
Eh, I’m still not a fan of this developers visual style. Pass
I enjoyed Slain quite a bit, and this being the pseudo sequel I'm sure I'll like it too.
I decided to buy this game after exactly 3 words of this headline.
Game looks awesome.
Hope its much better than ( mediocre imho. ) Slain...
If it's like Slain, I'll pass
I'll give it a go. Don't like slain but this looks better.
Good lord what a trailer! Amazing. Please be good. This game certainly brings the metal!
that looks pretty neat.
Slain got an undeserved hard time on switch, i played it, completed and enjoyed it. I felt it was never unfair and was the right side of hard with great art and awesome heavy metal soundtrack. this is a spiritual sequel, i will buy this for sure.
YESSSSS! I didn't even know this existed, all other games-to-buy just fell out of my brain. Must... Buy... Valfaris...
I'm a fan of Celtic Frost (among many other old and new metal bands) and only really recently got into Castlevania series after playing Smash so I'm sure I'll like this.
This looks incredible been following this for a while now.
Am I the only one that would Fanboy if a Nintendo life team member saw me in person? IDK I just really like what they do and it makes me sad to see how no matter what the news is there's always negativity.
Omfg this is awesome! I'm all over it.
People expect this game's visual to be like AAA games.
They don't actually appreciate the visual art style.
I'm all over for this game. Day one.
Looks like Turrican on ACID!!!
Looks great, will definitely add this to the backlog
Loved slain so i'll be getting this
Fantastic art style but it looks like it's too hard for me!
It looks very good in some ways, but that screen-shake effect looks excessive and nauseating. I definitely could not deal with that. Screen shake isn't particularly common in old games and was usually limited when it was there. On newer 2D games, it's more common and seems excessive to me to act as feedbackm since it bothers some people like me, where it really messes with my brain. I hope to see that become an option as it is sometimes the difference in me buying a game or not.
This is a game i will buy because of the soundtrack.
Since it's a hardcore game, i need to wait for sale as i hate these games which is designed to retry same level over and over again perhap's 10's of times to progress.
These kind of games is extremly repetitive for that reason.
Looks pretty good.
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