Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-drawn world in search of himself.In the role of a mysterious warrior named Dust you will become perfect mythical sword Blade of Ahrah, to fight with dozens of enemies using skillful fighting techniques.Perform a variety of quests and find powerful upgrades, hidden in a huge open world. Uncover the history of ancient civilization on the verge of extinction, figuring his forgotten past.
Dust: An Elysian Tail - one of the most beautiful games to XBLA. This two-dimensional RPG, which the unfolding events in the beautiful and mysterious world of Falana. The main protagonist lost his memory and now he has a long and thorny path to learn the secrets of his past.
Game Dust: An Elysian Tail is best characterized by the following episode:the magical forest runs from left to right character in evening dress and hat, followed by a brood galloping deer, fluttering over his head winged fox, and at home waiting for a friend-zaychiha. According to the author, Dean Dodrill, this game captures the spirit and atmosphere of Korea is not worse than the said film.
Three years of work, ten thousand years of happiness
The player can move freely throughout the kingdom, having been instructed in his native village.
Dean-yourself website has a very interesting structure. As of autumn 2009, he has exactly seven updates: starting with a solemn message that the site is open (2002) and ending with a hopeful statement that has finished work on the main character (2009).
For several years, Dean casts a spell over the cartoon Elysian Tail - once seemingly example garage indie development extends into eternity.Dean - director and writer, he is - an artist and animator, he is - sound, press secretary and cleaning lady. Shoulder the responsibility exorbitant, he drowned in the difficulties of production. It is still unknown when the project will be completed, although work is still underway.
This, in general, the usual story, which we have repeatedly been described in these pages. What is surprising and not having finished in seven years a project, its creator decided to take up another.
Dean felt that they invented the universe is perfect for a computer game. Not looking up from his work on the animated film, he started to create a platform Dust: An Elysian Tail.And then the process is called, has gone. The site is just exploded update appeared screenshots and gameplay videos, and seven months working prototype was assembled, which has brought Dean Dream.Buil.Play victory in 2009 and a prize of $ 40,000.
Fox ghost
One of the locations on which Dean is working at the moment, is a forest of giant mushrooms.
7 years and 7 months. Why such a huge difference in the timing? "In the game you can use the recorded animation several times, and creating a cartoon, you need to work through each frame. They were, for a moment, twenty-four per seconds "- explains Dean.
In addition, from Elysian Tail I got a lump starting material. Character design, color palette, mythology fairy world - all this has been done.The game take place in a magical land of Elysium. Anthropomorphic animals that inhabit it, that is, sorry, furry (see. Our sidebar). From conventional bipedal animals they are distinguished by the major racial attribute - a boundless big-eyed and bushy.
For example, the main character here - silver fox in oborchatom jacket and wide-brimmed straw hat, covered with a bluish cloth.Hat hiding his face - something evil there in his eyes; something that the author wished to conceal from the players. Superb places tattered clothes to shreds. His name is also very strange - Dust (dust).In general, the main character, despite his charming ears, nose and tail - that, my friends, is a real zombie.
The game begins with him waking up next to a huge sword. Dust does not remember who he is and does not know what lies behind the artifact before him.Flying fox Fidzhet quickly enters the hero in the course of the case: it turns out, over Elysium hung a terrible threat, and only with the help of this ancient weapon can deal with the aggressor. Fidzhet is Clan guardians of the sword, and forces her to follow the duty of Dust in his wanderings.
Chipmunk can cry
In a sense Dust can be seen as a free anime remake of "Bambi." With fox zombies and deadly combos.
Dean ingenuously laments how little attention is paid to the two-dimensional games today. And, of course, intended to restore justice with the help of Dust: An Elysian Tail.We did not disappoint him information that the full year 2009 a variety of developers just do that weighed bows pixel 2D-art. The phrase "I would like to do something like Castlevania» this year, we have heard many times, and Dean, of course, it also said.
That is, simply put, Elysian Tail - platformer with open world, quests and pumping. On one important feature - an advanced combat system."Two-dimensional Devil May Cry» - this is how the author describes his project. Of the four possible options for the attack, we will put a devastating combo, c their help Dust throws the enemies into the air and knocked down.
The simplest and yet the most spectacular attack called Dust Storm (dust storm) - the hero turns the sword with incredible speed, causing the blade turns into a glowing disc.By itself, such a blow is quite sensitive to the enemy, but it can also fit into far more intricate combination.Fidzhet, faithful companion Dust, not only beautifies the game for its charming green eyes and wings, but also helps the hero in battle. She - a witch.Fidzhet can zapulit fireball or a ball of lightning, and if you manage to get Dust for him with the sword, the two stages will develop in sverhrazrushitelnuyu attack.This is where it happens, and real dust storm accompanied by lightning, meteor showers, and precipitation in the form of dead enemies. Hero at such moments prefers to hold his hat hand - not to fly away.
Projectiles Fidzhet also be pumped, making the dust storm even more destructive.
But it is not limited to anime special effects. Dust is literally packed with Asian intricacies. For example, health-packs and then called 된장 김밥.Do not worry, it's just a "noodle" and "roll"!Sam Dean - American Korean, and, like a roadside restaurant China Express, he is trying to build a small island of national color and culture as part of a single game.In addition to mouth-watering kits, the main legacy of the Korean culture that migrated to Dust: An Elysian Tail, - is respect for the family.
Dean did not disclose the details of the plot, but the thought of a family and then slipped during our conversation.Supersede kits rolls officially endorsed mother Dina (said it looks delicious); during our telephone conversation, he asked forgiveness for something that will quietly say - in the next room asleep, his daughter; Finally, the game itself Dean since described as his child.
After such statements it is clear from here such a warm atmosphere that literally shines through the screenshots and videos.You begin to believe all these hares and foxes, and when it turns out that the game was born from the scene where the main character runs through the woods with a flock of deer, - immediately wants to join the procession.
