The game from Compulsion Games, from the authors of We Happy Few, will arrive in 2025 on Xbox Series, Game Pass and PC
June 9, 2024, 8:10 p.m.
Updated June 9, 2024, 9:43 p.m.
Among the standout games at the Xbox Games Showcase Summer 2023 was South of Midnight, a action game with items hack and slash that drew on southern mythology, voodoo and jamaican folklore with a studio that visually knows how to handle its worlds with ease, Compulsion Games. Now, the Canadians continue to show their pulse with a new trailer that confirm game launch window.
After a Category 5 hurricane hit the Florida area, Hazel lost her mother, but gained magical powers that allow her to alter the fabric of reality and attack with energy powers. With this premise and an unusual ally, a talking catfish, we enter a universe of pure and simple fantasy where popular tales from the southern United States intermingle with reality.
Combat hack and slash with the use of magical abilities
Although it seems that we are facing a game that is clearly linear than we could imagine, taking into account that the open world concept is one that has been replicated ad nauseam, although it does seem that Compulsion will bet on semi-open stages in order to facilitate exploration with magic hooks and our magical abilities. However, the real magic of the game seems to be on the ground.
With a style hack and slash, South of Midnight does not seem to want to reinvent the wheel, but it does offer a very interesting bet. “We don’t want to give everything away in this particular gameplay trailer yet, but the spells will be used to traverse, solve problems and combat. “This is how Hazel expresses the use of her power through the different elements of the game,” quotes Jasmin Roy, game director.
The powers that we can see are Weave, Push and Throw. Weaving can be used to lock objects in place to aid traversal, but will also bind enemies together; Pushing can be used to move objects in the world to help solve puzzles, but it also affects the dynamics of combat, allowing you to control enemy location to a certain extent. You’ll unlock more as you progress, all with this varied functionality. “Turning your spells into something that can be used in any situation is a clear metaphor of how Hazel’s powers aren’t simply about destruction or survival“Roy quotes.
Furthermore, and as we have mentioned, it is one of the most visually “different” games we have seen at the Xbox event. The style that Canadians will follow is stop motion with an overloaded art that will delight many. “The artists had to reverse engineer to build things by hand. And on the animation side, they were trying to mimic what happens when you do stop-motion animation.”
However, and although what the Americans have in their hands looks great, there is no release date. South of Midnight will hit the market next 2025first day on Game Pass and, as expected, exclusive to Xbox Series X|S.
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