Indie studio Performed With Fireplace introduced a brand new action-adventure sport this week known as Combination, which helps you to management two characters directly, or what the Poland-based indie calls “self-co-op.” The sport is slated to launch on Quest 2 and PSVR 2.
In the identical vein as Moss (2018), Combination duties you with controlling a pint-sized character named Sola, a so-called ‘Moth Knight’, whereas you tackle the function of ‘The Alchemist’, a robust magician who can forged spells to assist Sola alongside her method.
Sola is provided with a wing-like cape which lets her carry out dashes or unfold her wings and glide by means of the air. Serving up some fairly basic hack & slash motion, Sola’s important weapon is the scythe, which is used for slashing and stabbing combos, but in addition lets her climb vertically on coarse surfaces and sharply change instructions midair.
As The Alchemist, you craft magic by hand with base components discovered within the atmosphere and type them into bottled mixtures utilizing a hand gesture system. The sport guarantees a spread of results, together with offensive, tactical, and problem-solving spells.
Performed With Fireplace says Combination is aiming to create a Metroidvania-style development system performed out in 5 distinctive biomes it says will likely be filled with “challenges, fight, and secrets and techniques culminating in epic confrontations with big bosses.”
Identified for VR journey sport Stargaze (2020), the studio says in an Oculus weblog put up that with Combination its needs to mix “the quick reflexes of arms in VR motion and the handbook crafting and casting of alchemy with our love of basic metroidvanias and classy motion video games, which make use of a completely seen avatar to underline the hero’s superb and cinematic fight talents.”
“The quantity of enjoyable, real-time interaction between two characters introduced from two joined POVs is one thing distinctive to VR and one thing we needed to discover,” stated Performed With Fireplace CEO and Lead Programmer Bartłomiej Szydło.
There’s no launch date on the books but, nevertheless the studio says we will count on to see it on Quest 2 and PSVR 2.