Create Your Personal Bullet Hell
I’m simply gonna say it: players love Cthulhu. Whether or not it’s the big octopus-face himself within the rubbery flesh or different terrifying denizens of the deep dropped at life by the desperate spasms of a dying mind, we are able to’t get sufficient of that scrumptious cosmic horror. We’ve had Lovecraftian RPGs, first-person horror games, and even a cameo in Smite. However which mind-bendingly sophisticated, maddeningly troublesome style actually calls for a Lovecraftian presence? Bullet hell! Apt Video games’ TERROR SQUID follows within the slimy, doomed footsteps of greatness and presents a vectorized nightmare. With a thumping artificial soundtrack, eye-gouging shiny colours, and a trailer that can make your abdomen churn, that is one recreation that can make your head spin–and that’s earlier than the cosmic bullets begin flying.
The premise of TERROR SQUID is straightforward: you’re a cosmic creature of chaos circling a doomed world, dropping magical carpet bombs. Each recreation mechanic is linked to those bombs, and it’s wonderful. No tightly-choreographed patterns right here or memorizing the one protected areas on the display screen right here. There’s solely adrenaline and terror. Your objective is to outlive for so long as potential in a maze created by your individual projectiles. Final lengthy sufficient and you may launch a burst of primordial darkish power, detonating every part in wonderful chain reactions. TERROR SQUID is a disturbingly addictive check of reflex and technique impressed by the likes of Tremendous Stardust and Satan Daggers.
Inventive Director Syver Lauritzsen places it like this: “With TERROR SQUID we needed to make a hypnotic score-attack recreation that’s straightforward to know, however troublesome to grasp.”
Honest sufficient, however the place’s the horror?
“We additionally needed it to really feel haunted, simply as the perfect 80s arcade video games infect your mind in methods each terrifying and entrancing,” he continues. “Change into one with the TERROR SQUID.”
There it’s!
Launched as an arcade cupboard in 2019, TERROR SQUID gained the 2019 Norwegian Gameplay Championships and a everlasting spot in Oslo arcade bar Tilt, the place it hypnotizes gamers and devours tokens. This October, it’s slithering into PCs and the Nintendo Change. Give up to the darkness and grow to be one with the void on October 15th, 2020.
There isn’t a hope. There’s solely TERROR SQUID.
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