Early Gameplay of Ghost Song: A game thats inspired by Metroid with some Dark Souls sprinkled on.

[jackpackage200]

EDIT: I can't remember how to embed videos. Heres a link to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr7EKA3owvg

Ghost Song is an indie game made in the tradition of classic games like Super Metroid, and modern classics like Dark Souls. Ghost Song is being made using Stencyl game creation software.

Its a Metroid clone. You could slap Samus on the game and it would Metroid. Which is not a bad thing. I also like that rather then just being insanely difficult like most games "inspired" by Dark Souls, they are taking the way players interact with NPCs.

Also I love the sound design and artstyle.

Off-topic: Been awhile since I have been on the Escapist. I wonder if anyone remembers me.

 

[Zhukov]

Christ, you weren't joking when you said "inspired by Metroid". If I had watched the video without reading your post first I would have taken it for a mod.

Not really seeing the Dark Souls aspect though. Unless you mean the voice acting. That certainly reminded me of DS. Bleh.

 

[Fox12]

I won't lie, I saw this yesterday, and I'm excited. Since Nintendo won't make a Metroid game, I'll be happy to stick with this.

Also, the story actually sounds interesting. Apparently the whole point of the game is that you're figuring out what happened to this colony, and to the people who lived there, as well as the history of the location. Hence "ghost song." The story of the people who are dead. Story wise, it doesn't seem like a total rip off of Metroid.

 

[Kricketz]

Seems interesting enough. I'm digging the eerie atmosphere. I'll have to check it out on release.

 

[default]

Looks gorgeous, thanks for drawing my attention to it. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

 

[jackpackage200]

Christ, you weren't joking when you said "inspired by Metroid". If I had watched the video without reading your post first I would have taken it for a mod.

Not really seeing the Dark Souls aspect though. Unless you mean the voice acting. That certainly reminded me of DS. Bleh.

Its how the player character interacted with the NPCs. You have to keep talking to them to get them to disclouse more info.

Also the guy making this game name drops the hell out of Dark Souls on the Kickstarter page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192311215/ghost-song-a-journey-of-hope

He also said on Neogaf that he intends for the game to have minimal exposition and the player would have to seek it out ala Dark Souls

 

[josemlopes]

Christ, you weren't joking when you said "inspired by Metroid". If I had watched the video without reading your post first I would have taken it for a mod.

Not really seeing the Dark Souls aspect though. Unless you mean the voice acting. That certainly reminded me of DS. Bleh.

Its how the player character interacted with the NPCs. You have to keep talking to them to get them to disclouse more info.

Also the guy making this game name drops the hell out of Dark Souls on the Kickstarter page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192311215/ghost-song-a-journey-of-hope

He also said on Neogaf that he intends for the game to have minimal exposition and the player would have to seek it out ala Dark Souls

Isnt Dark Souls basicly a 3D Metroidvania?

The use of Dark Souls as inspiration most of the times is just a buzzword, having the game not hand hold the player is enough to say that it was inspired by Dark Souls.

OT:It looks cool but I was never a big fan of 2D games where you cant aim freely, dont know why. The visuals look great even though the enviorments are basicly just corridors.