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The Blood of Dawnwalker, the sport that dares ask “what if Geralt was Blade?”, dropped an all-new 20 minute gameplay trailer over the weekend that provides an thrilling new layer to the inquiry: What if Geralt was Blade, and so they had been additionally Corvo Attano?
That facet of gameplay turns into obvious halfway by way of the video, when evening falls and Coen—the hero of the story—turns from human to vampire, granting him new powers together with one which’s principally Blink, though on this recreation it is referred to as Shadowstep. (It’s a must to draw the road on this stuff someplace.) Mobility is the secret for vampires: Coen “has many extra exploration talents at his disposal” at evening, as design director Daniel Sadowski explains.
Which is not to recommend he is a ineffective meatsack as a human. Coen is clearly useful with a sword, as evidenced by his daytime encounter with a bunch of over-eager bandits, and he additionally has entry to what appears like some low-grade fight magic too—not indicators, as Geralt throws round, however hexes, which do issues like stun enemies or inflict some small quantity of injury over time.
And whereas being a vampire clearly has some upsides, particularly in a world the place vampires are in cost, it is no assure of safety from an premature demise, as seen on the finish of the video when Coen will get popped like a zit by one of many recreation’s bosses.
I do not suppose there’s any denying that The Blood of Dawnwalker borrows closely from different sources, however that is not essentially a foul factor if it is carried out nicely—I can consider worse methods to spend my gaming time than blasting round a corrupt medieval world as turbocharged Wesley Snipes.
Remember, although, that none of that is carved in stone: The video is taken from a “pre-beta” model of the sport, and every thing in it’s topic to alter, though the truth that developer Insurgent Wolves is keen to point out off this a lot of it suggests to me that no massive overhauls are deliberate at this level.
Assuming all goes nicely, we’ll see subsequent yr. The Blood of Dawnwalker (actually, that is one factor I’d change, to Blood of the Dawnwalker, perhaps it is simply me however that is how my mind parses it anyway) is ready to reach someday in 2026.
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