2024-03-02 09:49:16
Publisher Private Division announced on March 2nd that Moon Studios’ action RPG “No Rest for the Wicked‘ has been announced to begin early access distribution on April 18th. The supported platform is PC (Steam). According to the store page, it will be released on April 19th in Japan due to the time difference. The game also appears to support Japanese language display.
No Rest for the Wicked is an action RPG set in the year 841, where a plague is rampant. At the same time that King Harol dies and the throne is inherited by the arrogant and immature prince Magnus, a plague called Pestilence spreads across the continent. As political strife breaks out, the main character, the holy warrior Selim, heads to the remote island of Sakura Island in order to quell the epidemic.
This game supports solo play and online cooperative play with up to 4 people. In cooperative play, players can go on an adventure together or each can act freely. The story takes place on Sakura Island, where there are enemies such as people who have been turned into monsters by a plague and soldiers from the invading army, and you will have to fight them using a variety of weapons and techniques such as parrying. Mighty bosses will also appear, and strategies that take into consideration timing and spacing are important.
Weapons also have a rune system, and can be customized by setting runes. This is an element that allows players to pursue their own unique battle style. On the other hand, in addition to having attributes, armor also has an element of weight, and the character’s movement will change depending on the weight. It looks like armor crafting elements will also be available.
There is also a hack-and-slash element where the loot you get along the way is random; for example, there are four types of rarity for weapons: common, rare, unique, and curse. Common is a rarity that tends to be unnecessary in general, but in this work it is given the characteristic of being highly customizable. Rare has a special effect added, and unique has an even more special effect. And Curse is powerful, but cursed.
Another feature of this work is that the world is constantly changing. This is called the Alive System, and even if a location has already been explored, new monsters may invade afterward. If you visit the location again, you will be able to obtain resources again.
In addition to this, this work also includes elements that will rebuild the town of Sacramento, the capital of Sakura Island. You can buy properties, farm the land and harvest food, cook meals that will help you recover your health and improve your stats, or help residents rebuild their shops. For example, if you acquire a home, you can customize the interior to your liking, and Sacramento becomes a place to invest the resources you obtain from your adventures.
When the game launches into early access, it will include the first chapter of the campaign with a narrative element, as well as additional quests that delve deeper into the world and its inhabitants. Elements such as character building, crafting, purchasing and customizing properties are also available. There will also be a highly replayable “Selim’s Crucible” dungeon as an end content, as well as daily and weekly challenges.
As development continues, content such as cooperative play with up to four players and PvP multiplayer, story content/chapters, additional map areas, agricultural elements, more weapons, armor, items, enemies and bosses will be added. It is planned that It looks like multiplayer elements will be added in the first major update.
The developer of this work, Moon Studios, is an indie studio that received high praise for its work on “Ori and the Blind Forest” and “Ori and the Will of the Wisps.” Due to the success of both games, they decided to try a different genre: action RPG with their new work. In development, they are working on the core elements of action RPGs, adding their own interpretations, and pushing elements that they think are ripe for renewal to the next level.
“No Rest for the Wicked” is a PC (Steam) will be released in early access on April 19th. Furthermore, when it is officially released, it will also be released for PS5/Xbox Series X|S.
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