That required getting some outside help in Toby Dixon, a pixel artist working with Essen and his co-founder Kristy Norindr, to quite literally flesh out Nidhogg’s bizarre world, not the least of which included the now near-Cronenbergian horror of the worm. “I was also excited about making the weapon-based collisions pixel-precise, meaning that you could score a hit off of your opponent’s knee pixel rather than a simplified square hitbox like in most fighting games.” “I tried to constrain the art to flat colors at low resolution so that I could keep it consistent and tweak minor bits of the animations as needed,” Essen says in an email. Developer Mark Essen, who handled the bulk of programming the original game while also creating all of its art, explains the vision was always meant to be gruesome you just had to fill in some blanks the first time around. That’s all changing with the newly announced Nidhogg 2, due out in 2017, which is festooned with a detailed new 2D style that’s as much cartoon humor as it is meatier, more immediate violence.īut if you thought the original’s aesthetic - with its eerily hypnotic tunes, screaming avatars, and jittery trip visuals that bordered on abstract - were a sign that something was always a little off, congrats, because the sequel’s new art is essentially a confirmation of what you already suspected (if not at least proof of Messhof’s dark sense of humor). Aside from being a fighting game that’s ostensibly about fencing, its minimalist pixel art stood out from the get-go (particularly that chandelier), its monochromatic combatants seemingly nervous and twitchy in their animations, and its violence of play readily apparent if not necessarily gratuitous.
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Network Players 2-2 - Full game requires PlayStation®Plus membership to access online multiplayer Remote Play requires PS Vita system and sufficiently robust Wi-Fi connection. Go online with matchmaking and private games. Alter the rules with over 10 different game variables. Ten stages from castles to Nidhogg innards. Get stylish with full character customization. Master the distinctive traits of four weapons. Fight for the top seat in 8-player tournaments. Challenge the AI or a friend in 1v1 combat. Sequel to the indie hit of 2014, Nidhogg 2 builds upon the award-winning gameplay of its predecessor with new weapons to wield and levels to master, head-to-toe character customization, and the captivatingly grotesque art of Toby Dixon.Īnd, with music from artists including Mux Mool, Geotic, Doseone, Osborne, and Daedelus, Nidhogg 2 has a soundtrack so good that even the menu screens are awesome.
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