Here's a demo for Blades Of Fire, the new action-RPG from the Lords Of Shadow team

Blades Of Fire is the latest acheronian phantasy smackeroo from Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow developers MercurySteam. It takes spot successful a satellite wherever alloy is simply a divine substance passed down to humanity by the mysterious Forgers. Some sinister young queen has, however, formed a spell that turns everybody else’s alloy into stone, granting her followers a near-monopoly connected each the butt-kicking.

Playing arsenic bleak and burly beardyman Aran “We Have Kratos At Home” de Lira, your occupation is to pursuit down that queen, execution her minions, and trade a full clump of Darksiders-esque weaponry. Aran is accompanied by Adso, a juvenile sidekick successful the vein of Atreus, who catalogues the game’s “over 50” force types and tin besides construe lore written successful the past Forger language.

I’m keen connected what I’ve seen of Blades Of Fire’s geography, which is stuffed afloat of ruined palaces, enchanted trees and such. I’m overmuch little keen connected Aran – he’s got a tragic past helium “refuses to fto specify him entirely”, but immoderate empathy I consciousness is sabotaged by the information that Aran’s default outfit consists of astatine slightest 8 belts. I’m undecided, meanwhile, connected the combat. It’s described arsenic “unique”, with controller buttons corresponding to assemblage parts, but travel now, MercurySteam, the conception of limb-targeting is virtually arsenic aged arsenic I am.

Ah, if lone determination were immoderate benignant of demo I could play to enactment done my misgivings. Oh yeah, that’s close – publishers 505 person conscionable released a demo connected the Epic Games Store. Way to smother the lede, Evans-Thirlwell!

As you mightiness deduce from the title, Blades Of Fire is dense connected the blacksmithing. You’ll cod Forge Scrolls to make your crafting capabilities. There are 30 of these scrolls, positive 7 limb families, astatine slightest 3 types of harm successful the signifier of stabbing, slashing and bludgeoning, and an unspecified quantity of antithetic earthy materials. All of which allows for “almost infinite limb combinations”. Please, PRs, I beg of you. Please let the ridiculous operation “almost infinite” to die. I hatred getting each tangled up successful self-contradictions erstwhile I’m trying to number broadswords.

Blades Of Fire is owed retired connected 22nd May, truthful present is simply a good clip to illustration that demo. Let america cognize if you do. Also, fto america cognize what your preferred maximum loop number is for a videogame protagonist. Seriously, 8 belts - that’s like, 4 much than Voldo successful astir Soulcalibur games.