A playable demo for Sonokuni is obtainable now on Steam.
Sonokuni was given VGC’s Media Spotlight award on the BitSummit indie occasion in Kyoto earlier this 12 months, and gamers can now check out the sport on Steam to see why we preferred it.
The sport’s distinctive promoting level is that it’s developed by Don Yasa Crew, a Japanese hip-hop outfit who determined to study sport improvement through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Impressed by Hotline Miami, the crew’s Don Sagawa created a top-down 2D motion sport the place gamers need to excellent tough motion sequences utilizing quite a lot of skills.
“This may increasingly sound infuriating, however the fight is so satisfying, and the sport is so acutely aware of the participant’s free time that it by no means actually is,” we wrote in our Sport of the Present article.
“As quickly as you die you hit a button and spawn proper on the door to the room, there are not any lengthy checkpoints you must play via once more. It’s a die, attempt, die, attempt system and it nails the ‘yet one more go’ vibe with gusto.”
“Then, on high of all this, there’s the small matter of a grimy, gritty J-hip-hop soundtrack blasting on loop within the background.
“When all of it combines, and also you lastly handle to drag off an ideal run with the bass thumping and Japanese rapping ringing round your ears, you’re feeling cool as all conceivable hell.”
Don Yasa Crew has additionally introduced that Sonokuni can have a velocity run mode at launch, permitting gamers to compete to beat every degree within the quickest time doable.
