Windblown’s quick, flashy fight and seemingly lighthearted aura are what first caught my eye. In its trailer, anthropomorphic animal heroes transfer like lightning and slash by enemies with swords and daggers. Innocent slacking throughout a coaching session turns right into a warfare cry as a cumbersome enemy effortlessly slices by a teammate, crimson splashing onto the battlefield as you rush in for the ultimate blow. Like Dead Cells, the earlier recreation from developer Motion Twin, it excited me with what appeared to be responsive, inventive gameplay with a darkish underbelly ready to be found by environmental storytelling.At GDC 2024, GameSpot took a sneak peek at Windblown and spoke to Motion Twin about its inspirations and what the staff aimed to perform. Motion Twin introduced in February that Dead Cells assist would finish after the upcoming “End is Near” replace. Thankfully for followers of that recreation, Windblown goals to take Dead Cells’ strengths and construct on them with new options that Motion Twin needed to see in a cooperative, fast-paced motion recreation. On prime of that, Windblown is a chance for the studio to transcend its consolation zone and work on options it hasn’t supplied earlier than, like 3D and multiplayer.
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“For us, the goal was to create a super fast-paced action game that we can play with friends,” Motion Twin’s Yannick Berthier advised us. “That was what we wanted. To be able to play together. But we could not find [a game with that]. We could find really good multiplayer games. We could find super good fast-paced games. But not something that glued all of those [together].””It’s more how do we get all those pieces so we can create that game we were dreaming of? And in the next game, we’ll do the same. The question will be what do we want to play now?”The roguelike style wasn’t the one choice Motion Twin thought of when it determined to develop a brand new motion recreation. However, it ended up being the style that it selected, acknowledging that earlier expertise from Dead Cells helped to leverage it extra successfully. It needed to maintain the “state of flow” that Dead Cells had. In the case of Windblown, state of circulation meant a snappier, combo-heavy expertise than in its metroidvania-esque sibling.”When you play Windblown and then you go back to Dead Cells, it feels a bit slow, which is fine. It’s a different taste. Speed is just a way to convey the flow differently,” Berthier stated.An enemy attacking our anthropomorphic animal hero with a laser beam.Gallery Motion Twin thought of making Windblown a side-scroller just like Dead Cells, too, however realized a top-down view labored higher for multiplayer. With that perspective, gamers can simply see one another and all close by monsters. Other facets of Dead Cells, comparable to action-based penalties, carried over into Windblown, like a boss that returns for revenge in case you fail to smash its head in throughout a earlier run. At each flip, it appeared like there was a mechanic to assist the participant really feel extra engaged or give that means to actions past simply mashing buttons and shifting onto the subsequent degree.Motion Twin additionally integrated suggestions that it obtained on Dead Cells into Windblown. In the brand new recreation, gamers get two weapons that they’ll change between to set off a particular assault. Any two weapons have particular assaults that gamers can uncover, encouraging them to experiment. This is on prime of different skills you would possibly earn by your playthrough, like a shockwave that hits enemies when performing sure assaults.”We try to refine the formula and propose new things. So we keep some stuff that is working very well in Dead Cells, and we try to add things like dual wielding,” stated Thomas Vassner, one other developer on the mission. “This was a big frustration in Dead Cells to not be able to synergize each weapon. This special attack is an answer to that. It’s an answer to make the player want to try every weapon and see what it does.”Your peaceable dwelling base with the ominous Vortex looming within the distance.At its core, Windblown is about an impending apocalypse. You stay within the previously peaceable, floating village known as The Ark, which is threatened by a harmful phenomenon known as the Vortex and the monstrous Sentinels that got here with it. The participant character is able to absorbing the recollections of previous comrades, which helps them put together for battle and develop stronger with every loss, albeit in a considerably grim means. In Dead Cells, you have got piles of corpses and whereas Windblown may not have as ugly of a reminder of demise, it is related.”Our heroes will encounter very dark subjects to deal with,” Vassner warns. “You are absorbing memories. Maybe you are absorbing more memories than you lived yourself. So it will make some crazy things [happen to] your character. Maybe this is not your first body. Maybe your personality is downloaded in this new body.”One concern Motion Twin is looking for to handle is balancing how less-experienced gamers can sustain with their mates who’ve lots of of hours within the recreation, and ensuring that there’s a solution to really feel just like the expertise was nonetheless participating, even after you die. It teased a “unique” solution to handle demise the place gamers can keep collectively, although it did not share any specifics.Windblown is at present in improvement for PC and anticipated to launch for Steam early entry in 2024.