Trapped in the wreckage, and armed only with your own curiosity, you’ll tackle giant beasts, collect strange and powerful items, and unravel the long-lost secret of Tunic, Andrew Schultz and an all-star team created by the famous action RPG. . Helped create Chicory: A Colorful Story, Cuphead, Celeste, Night in the Woods, and Dustforce.
Tunic’s journey began in 2015 with Halifax’s own Andrew Schultz sharing deep experiences of playing weird and obscure video games before the age of the Internet and remembering fan sub-rom hacks. What are these weird items I find? How do you kill this bizarre boss? Who is this old man in the cave? Is that animal also the enemy? Also, how do you recreate that experience for everyone?
So Schultz, who handled the vast majority of tunic-level design, characters, puzzles, animation, combat, programming, lighting, and storytelling, began to prototype a small orange triangle-headed protagonist who had all the charm of a classic retro hero but a set of modern Souls Like masterpieces of action inspired by the rioting heroes. All that was left was to create a “little” world for the fox to explore.
… As well as an incredibly detailed in-game guide manual that doubles as a puzzle book (or triples as a strategy guide), complete with some previous owner’s weird notes. It’s hard to summarize how the manual works in this game without ruining the most interesting puzzles to hit video games in a long time, but it is dense with information, joy and mystery.
The final step was to bring together a team of brilliant collaborators to enliven the glorious world of Tunic. Rebecca and Adam Saltsman (Finji) Level artist and programmer Eric Billingsley, longtime collaborators Kevin Regami (Powerup Audio), Terrence Lee (LifeFormed), and Felixdon Cramd in 2017 before inviting Finji’s wonderful QA and marketing staff. To join PR team at ICO, Porting Engineer of 22nd Century Toys and various other talent parties.
Although Tunic is designed as a single-player adventure, there’s a lot to talk about, and a lot of puzzles to unravel, that you want to keep a dedicated party open so that your smartest friends can help you understand the toughest privacy. We’re also designing game help content on the PS5 so that you can always start with humility, so that you don’t get lost even if you are completely distracted by some awesome bosses or ancient puzzles.
While Tunic takes big hints from our past and present super-challenging games, it also has a number of options that allow players to customize the challenge of fighting to suit their interests, without actually removing the fun of fighting the fierce devils. Players can opt out of some of the more technical aspects of combat, or even enable a “no fail” mode. Whether
Whether you’re new to the Dodge-Rolling Action RPG genre and still learning the ropes, playing your first true adventure with a young man, tired of long hours at work, or mostly here for incredible puzzles, this game has you covered.
Published by Tunic Finji (Night in the Woods, Overland, Chicory: A Colorful Tale) and will arrive on PS5 and PS4 on September 27, 2022.
