A prologue-style demo for an upcoming motion platformer has you wielding a magic workers and two-fisted kung fu to battle enemies and discover a metroidvania-style world of fable and magic. Akatori’s large pitch si that your method of shifting depends upon a magic workers that may be thrown not simply as a weapon, however to hover in midair as a pole to leap off of.
Developer Code Wakers calls Akatori a “mix of basic metroidvania and intense motion platformer.” In it you play as Mako, a youngster raised in a temple who should take her magic crimson fowl workers into the land of the gods to resolve a disaster.
Akatori’s fight depends on a mix of strikes with Mako’s martial arts expertise and workers. Every assaults in its personal method, and mixing the 2 types right into a cohesive entire so that you just’re getting essentially the most out of your strikes looks as if an fascinating pitch for a various system of combos and assaults.
We first noticed Akatori again in 2021, when it debuted throughout a Guerilla Collective livestream. It drew PC Gamer author Tyler Wilde’s consideration for its vibrant layers of flat colours within the type of a Neo Geo recreation.
“With out contemplating too deeply whether or not or not I truly really feel like enjoying a brand new 2D platformer, I am a fan of Akatori’s look. The flat layers and colour palette are what I affiliate with Neo Geo arcade video games like Samurai Shodown and Steel Slug, which to me are the peak of sprite-art (although clearly Akatori’s not so pixely),” he mentioned, and I am unable to assist however agree with that potent affiliation.
The Akatori: Chapter One demo takes about an hour if you happen to’re shifting at high pace and is fairly gratifying for an in-development snapshot of a recreation that is not but out. I discovered the visuals fairly however the controls a bit finicky now and again and unresponsive at others—particularly when making an attempt to get essentially the most from leaping off the thrown workers—in all probability the form of issues the builders need participant response to from this demo.
You could find Akatori: Chapter One free of charge proper now on Steam, the place you may as well discover Akatori. Akatori correct does not but have a launch date.