juicce Announces Brokensides, a Horror Action Game Starring a Sea Slug Girl
juicce is betting that a deliberately off-putting premise, a sea slug protagonist with a smell characters comment on, can carry a beat 'em up built on exploration and glass-shattering combat rather than a conventional hero.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Developer juicce has announced Brokensides, a surreal horror action adventure game. The player controls Yorunna Parva, a sea slug girl who committed a grave sin in the past and has been released from confinement. She explores a strange world and smashes glass-like enemies that block her path, with gameplay that mixes exploration and beat 'em up action. The game is planned for release on Steam for PC.
juicce's pitch leans on the body and the smell. Yorunna Parva gives off a terrible odor, and the announced features note that characters will still talk to her anyway. Players can pose or sit anywhere while exploring, which suggests the world is meant to be lingered in rather than crossed. The combat is blunt: enemies are described as glass-like, and the aim is to beat them until they shatter. The studio places the game in a dark and strange world that, in its own framing, was not always a terrible place. Brokensides is planned for release on Steam for PC.
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