17-Year-Old Developer's Souls-Like PARRY COUNTER Hits Steam
A solo teenage developer shipped a complete, focused boss-rush action game on Steam, with his father, a fellow game developer, publicly promoting the release.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Game developer Hakunaku released the Windows action game PARRY COUNTER on Steam. The 17-year-old high school student built the Souls-like 2D side-scroller over about three years, starting in his third year of junior high. The game has only boss fights, no regular enemies, and uses parry and counter mechanics. It costs 480 yen, with a discount to 384 yen until August 12.
PARRY COUNTER is a Souls-like 2D side-scrolling action game with no regular enemy battles. The protagonist fights only bosses to destroy magic stones that threaten the world. Parry and counter are the core systems: parry nullifies an attack by guarding at the moment of impact, and counter launches a powerful attack after a successful parry. The store page describes the game as testing skill, precision, and courage.
The game includes five bosses, including the tutorial boss, and the expected playtime is about one to two hours. Hakunaku's father, game developer Tanuki Tosan, posted to promote the release and revealed that his son spent about three years on the project, starting in his third year of junior high school.
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