As part of the Future Games Show at Gamescom, we saw a little bit more of Teslagrad 2 — the sequel to critically-acclaimed metroidvania Teslagrad — as well as a release date and a confirmation that it'll come to Switch.
Like the original game, Teslagrad 2 is all about using electromagnetic magic powers to traverse a steampunk world inhabited by strange otherworldly creatures, but this time there's a twist — you'll be travelling back in time to defeat ancient monsters and explore long-forgotten ruins in old world Scandinavia.
From the Steam page:
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crashes in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
Defend yourself against Viking raiders, face gruesome beasts inspired by Nordic mythology, and triumph against epic bosses! As your journey progresses, you’ll discover new skills and equipment needed to uncover the secrets of the land and delve into the dark past of Lumina’s ancestors.
Between this and God of War: Ragnarok, we sense a Norse revival in games...
Teslagrad 2 will come out on Switch, alongside PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, in March 2023.
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Yes, loved the first one, definitely getting this if a physical turns up.
The video looks great, just enough to tease and not too much explanation.
I'm a big fan of the first game and have beaten it many times. Glad to finally have solid news on the sequel.
Great news! Teslagrad was a standout indie for me on the Wii I!
Played the first one on WiiU, I guess it was one of the first games I've played on the console... So many good memories.
Can't wait for this one
I loved the first game. This is going straight to my wishlist.
Sadly, this came out in a time when I bought more than I played, and called myself a collector. So I have it on Wii U, but like most people who build up backlogs and call themselves collectors, I assume, I was lying to myself that I would eventually play it, I didn't just buy it because I wanted to have it in my collection as a low print physical indie Wii U title. Wii U was my main home console and I played it a lot, but I never got to this game - despite popular belief that "Wii U had no games". A system that launches bundled with one of its (or any) generation's best survival horror games AND has Nintendo themselves actively trying to push it to wider success, can't have no games. It can only be ignored by the companies that rush out marketable stuff on popular markets, which Wii U wasn't, obviously. I was never really into that popular market stuff.
On an entirely different note...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
With worldwide wireless (or even wired) internet, electricity, microwaves, wars fought with remote controlled flying objects that drop things making entire nations go up in flames, or less visible, sickness... One would assume that people would have accepted that magic, constructive or destructive, indeed does exist, and their scientific lack of explanation for everything doesn't make it "supernatural", just their science or other religions of denial and demonising what they can't control, always being several steps behind those who can master or just appreciate the energy or whatever around them, whether they can or can't explain it, and that not being able to understand or explain it doesn't make it wrong, only denial of infinite possibility is wrong. Or the abuse of that which you can control, to take away the power of others not trying to control YOU.
If we destroy every bomber and every bomb and deny they ever existed, and burned everyone who claims otherwise over the course of several years calling them "witches", we'd probably think of the idea just as we do of people flying on dragons that spit fire or waving sticks that bend metal and levitate water, and call everyone who believes in that (something less intelligent than what they would call "us"). Hell, even mostly everyone that has been bombed by them personally and survived, would after a few years of government terror and brainwashing or just social cancellation deny their own experience, to the point where their brain malfunctions when their memory makes them remember.
I've had so many experiences that if I told them to anyone who doesn't really know me, would be assumed lies, because publicly available "science" has no explanation for them, and its preachers would shame them for believing in it despite that. Magnetism IS magic, whether you can explain it or not, and you can't tell me otherwise. Even physics and chemistry and biology agree that our perception of everything happening around us is very limited, and our influence on it reaches way further. What is that, when under control or even when not, if not magic? How is that supernatural, if it's simply nature being nature?
That's it for today's food for thought. Feel free to feed me.
Loved the first game and the spin off glad to finally see a sequel.
Teslagrad 1 was unbelievable imo. Couldn’t put it down till I found that a-hole king 👑
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