At RTX Austin this week, Rooster Teeth and WayForward shared a release date update for the upcoming title, RWBY: Arrowfell. This side-scrolling 2D action-adventure will be arriving this Fall on multiple platforms including Switch.
In addition to this, a new trailer has been released - showing off some work-in-progress footage. This includes an "updated look" at the game's combat, visuals and play mechanics. WayForward has also released some additional information on its website about this upcoming release:
Featuring an in-continuity story by RWBY writers Kerry Shawcross, Miles Luna, and Eddy Rivas, RWBY: Arrowfell puts players in control of Team RWBY — Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long — shortly after they’ve become fully licensed Huntresses in RWBY Volume 7. You’ll be able to switch instantly between characters as you battle the Creatures of Grimm and other foes using the heroes’ signature weapons — Ruby’s Crescent Rose, Weiss’s Myrtenaster, Blakes’ Gambol Shroud, and Yang’s Ember Celica — in melee and ranged combat, and as you explore locations across Atlas, Mantle, and the surrounding wilderness, Team RWBY will complete missions for familiar characters such as General Ironwood and the Ace Operatives (as well as everyday citizens) while uncovering clues about a mysterious new threat lurking in the shadows.
Players will also put Team RWBY’s Semblances to use both in and out of battle. Ruby’s Petal Burst lets her avoid attacks and dash to distant locations; Weiss’s Glyphs create usable platforms that can burst into offensive shards; Blake’s Shadow manifests a doppelganger that can attack and activate pressure plates; and Yang’s Burn unleashes a ground punch that inflicts damage and destroys obstacles. By combining Semblances, you’re able to solve increasingly complex environmental puzzles, and each character’s Semblance can be upgraded to become even more effective. Additionally, by collecting Skill Points, you can customize and enhance Team RWBY’s attributes, including melee attack, ranged attack, defense, and energy regeneration.
Complementing the action are voiceovers from RWBY’s original cast (including Lindsay Jones as Ruby, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech as Blake, and Barbara Dunkelman as Yang), all-new broadcast-quality cutscenes, an atmospheric soundtrack by composer Dale North, and a brand-new vocal theme song by Casey Lee Williams.
Read more - WayForward Brings RWBY: Arrowfell To Nintendo Switch In 2022
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[source wayforward.com, via twitter.com]
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WayForward's making a RWBY game huh?
Knowing their track record, this could quite possibly be the best RWBY game yet.
Not a big fan of the sprites but it does look to be a fun 2d platformer!
Anything WayForward is quality, so I'm interested.
She doesn't sound exhilarated when she says it's exhilarating.
Not digging the overall look especially for the characters, but we will see how the gameplay is. Don’t really care for the story at this point for RWBY since it has long since jumped the shark with the writers RT has.
Honestly, I don't know if I'll play this. I only got halfway through Volume 2 of RWBY (and that was after I learned what happened to some of my favorite characters at the end of Volume 3, namely Pyrrha and Yang, which basically made me not want to watch anymore).
But if I am to be honest, I largely fell out of love with Rooster Teeth ever since they were bought out by Fullscreen. The company quickly morphed from an organization that felt like a group of friends making content for fun to a corporation more interested in making money.
It just didn't feel like the company I grew to love anymore, so I basically stopped following them and their content. I still haven't caught up on the rest of RWBY (despite having a vague idea of what happens in later Volumes), and I never watched Red vs. Blue after Season 11. The rest of their content didn't appeal to me, and some of my favorite Achievement Hunter series had long since ended.
What was essentially the final nail in the coffin to me was when the founders of the company started to leave, such as Joel and Burnie (although in Joel's case, he was laid off for reasons unknown), with the remaining founders (Geoff, Matt, and Gus) being transferred to new roles in the company, taking them away from the roles that they were comfortable and good in.
Maybe it's just me being stuck in the past, blinded by nostalgia. But I do feel that they began to try too hard to grow and expand their brand--becoming less personal, intimate, and genuine in the process--than just be themselves and let it happen naturally; it's a problem that plagues a lot of YouTubers I used to follow, sadly. And it drove away longtime fans like myself and a coworker of mine (this year's RTX will be the last one he goes to, having wanted to stop going for years, but kept doing so to see friends who also attended).
I fell off RWBY a while ago after the show's story took a nosedive and generally lost its charm around volumes 4/5 and I still feel burned on RWBY games after Grimm Eclipse was just plain terrible but, while their track record with licensed games isn't perfect (for every The Mummy Demastered, there's a Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia), WayForward's involvement is enough to make me curious about this.
If anything, the soundtrack ought to have some bangers with Dale North being involved.
I enjoyed RWBY up to what I watched in Vol 7. Grimm Eclipse was enjoyable for a time - I played it on PC when it first came out. I got excited for a second when I opened this article, but then, I saw the screenshots… I’m going to skip out on this one…
looks great character switching is like Friends til the End dlc from Half-Genie Hero
Never watched RWBY but I'm getting this if the reviews are favourable. Platformers are always great on Switch.
Combat looks really simplistic and stiff to me...then again I've been working on Hollow Knight and Celeste, so obviously it's going to look a lot worse than those two.
RWBY was a series I could never get into like that. But if Wayforward is a making a game about it I could at least try it out.
Looks fantastic, may definitely check it out.
I like Wayforward's work generally. Think me and the daughter would like this.
WF is getting those bills paid, huh.
@sneaky_sasquatch *coughs in Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia
@Savage_Joe wait wayforward made that?
oh god
@sneaky_sasquatch 😂😂😂😂 in their defense, that was WayForward's first 3d game in a while. I only play their 2d games since that's their forte.
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