Publisher Dear Villagers has today announced that the upcoming baked goods-based RPG Born of Bread will be rising to the occasion on Switch this summer.
Recently displayed at PAX East where we got a chance to go hands-on with the demo, Born of Bread is a Paper Mario-like RPG from developers WildArts Games where you take control of Loaf (yep, the loaf's name is Loaf) as he sets about on an adventure to save his world. Much like its papery plumber inspiration, this all takes place with handmade-looking 2D characters in a 3D environment and there is a good helping of turn-based battling to make the connection even stronger.
The latest trailer (found above) gives us a closer look at the colourful cast of characters, comical mechanics and that all-important battle system that will see us rapidly pressing buttons to watch a bread boy beat up monsters — not something that we thought we'd be seeing today, but we're pleased that we did.
For a little more information about the game's features as well as a closer look at some screenshots, check out the following from the publishers:
To bake Born of Bread, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- One flour golem who possesses a never-ending childlike wonder and a set of odd abilities
- A wonderful world ripe with mysteries
- An eclectic cast of fleshed-out characters
- A wacky storyline
- A pinch of light puzzles
- Turn-based battles with a dash of real-time minigames
- Bright, colorful 2.5D graphics
- Side-missions (add to taste)
- A captive audience granting you bonuses in battle
Whether Born of Bread can live up to the iconic 2.5D adventure RPGs of the past remains to be seen, but we sure are looking forward to finding out more while the game is left to prove over the next couple of months.
What do you make of Born to Bread? Leave a slice of your thoughts in the comments below.
Comments (20)
looks good, thought just the overworld seemed interesting
Well I do love me some Paper Mario so I’ll probably check this out at some point.
This game is hitting all the buttons for me. I'm sold.
Might be worth dropping some dough on.
Hope all these paper mare like games inspire nintendo to make a sequel to ttyd like 2d metroid!
Loving the jazz in that trailer, definitely one to keep an eye on
Great.
Physical release in the future, please.
Fingers crossed it is more Bug Fables than Outbound Ghost.
@Dpullam
Nice one. Hopefully it will spend enough time in the oven. I wouldn't want them to release it before its golden.
This caught my interest because I love bread and I love food-themed games, but the distinct lack of any delicious food in the trailer was disappointing. I'm afraid this one may be off the menu for me.
Hopefully it’s better than Outbound Ghost. That was bad even before the mess with the console ports.
It's equal parts delightful other developers embrace the tenets of Paper Mario Classic, and annoying Nintendo sees no value in it.
Yay, another Paper Mario game. Hopefully Nintendo brings back Paper Mario with the OG battles and RPG elements.
Looks neat. On my radar for sure, but as others have said I'm sceptical what with the Outbound Ghost disaster.
That Tanooki design seems familiar…
Looks like a cool game!
Don't think I'll be spending my "dough" on that.
I just played Bug Fables last month, so I have my Mario RPG fix for a while, but I’ll keep my eye on this game, it’s difficult to say whether it’ll be good or not.
2.5D game? I have never heard this kind of a thing. I know 2D and 3D games but I have never heard a 2.5D game maybe this site want to say something else. The game looks different to. To play.
Hmm, the environments look good but I don't like the character designs. The combat also feels clunky... pass for me.
Really hope this game will be good as not only it's based on Paper Mario, but it even has transformations à la Wario Land!
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