Action adventure

Developer Ska Studios has announced that its enormously enjoyable, Dark Souls-inspired 2D action-adventure Salt and Sanctuary is coming to Switch on August 2nd.Salt and Sanctuary first released for PlayStation 4 and PC in 2016 (a Vita version followed a year later), and was a game I enjoyed immensely at the time. Those Dark Souls comparisons are well-earned too, if you're wondering: it's an explicit attempt to translate From Software's seminal fantasy series into two dimensions.Salt and Sanctuary begins with our hero, the Saltborn, shipwrecked on the shores of a vast, mysterious kingdom. Inevitably, there's a strong exploratory aspect to the experience, but it also does a grand job of shifting Dark Souls' considered combat to the 2D plane.It goes even further though, mimicking Dark Souls' broodily enigmatic“Making of Defiance – Part 1″ below:

The second part builds off the first part by focusing on the world depicted in the series. It speaks to the strangeness of the new Earth but also considers grounding its setting by emphasizing the St. Louis Gateway Arch. This iconic structure is at the heart of Defiance the TV series, wherein as the video game side will emphasize the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where the game is based. Interestingly, both the TV series and the MMO ground their worlds with two “gateways;” one to the Midwest and the other to the Pacific Ocean. Here’s “Making of Defiance – Part Two”:

Much like the YouTube sci-fi web series H+, Defiance is quickly shaping up to be a very simple story told