Asterigos: Curse of the Stars Launches This Fall for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 April 2022 / 2,318 Views
Publisher tinyBuild and developer Acme Gamestudio announced the action RPG, Asterigos: Curse of the Stars, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam this fall.
View a new gameplay trailer below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Discover the long forgotten secrets and hidden paths in this high fantasy world, featuring exhilarating battle encounters, interconnected maps full of places to explore, and an immersive story where every choice matters. Play as Hilda—a brave young warrior from the Northwind Legion who embarks on a journey to the cursed city in order to save her lost father. The gameplay elements inspired by soulslike games alongside a lighter, dynamic combat system, create a fresh take on the modern action RPG genre, providing you with a harmonious difficulty and exploration balance.
Key Features:
- Explore the magnificent city of Aphes inspired by classical Greek designs and unveil the truth behind the city’s curse.
- Combine and change your weapons on the go. Equip two different types of weapon at once and become unpredictable in combat.
- Battle more than 60 different enemies and encounter 22 bosses in the main story and side quests.
- Decide the fate of Aphes. Every decision you make in Asterigos matters and will affect the story.
- Find over 100 collectables, complete numerous side quests, and forge your destiny in the NewGame+ mode.
Explore the Streets of Aphes
Welcome to Aphes—a city-state full of magic and wonder inspired by ancient Rome and classical Greek designs. From the mist-covered bazaar streets to gloomy sewers, the enigmatic forests at the city’s outskirts to deep chasms full of glittering crystals, the landscapes of Aphes are full of beauty and dangers.
Decide on Your Combat Style
Choose from a variety of ranged and melee weapons on the go and combine them as you wish! The talent system allows you to pick and expand your combat style by choosing two out of six completely different weapons: sword and shield, dual blades, spear, hammer, staff or even magic bracelets. Equip a magical staff to obliterate your foes from the distance or switch to a gigantic battle hammer to squish them in a close combat.
Fight a Plethora of Challenging Enemies
Whilst Aphes might distract you with its breathtaking views, this city is not for the faint of heart. Fight your way through 60 different monsters and encounter 22 unique bosses—each with its own unique battle mechanics.
Immerse Yourself in the Story
Every choice and every decision you make matters. Your journey in Aphes will lead you to discover the truth behind the city’s curse, letting you piece together its history through conversations, discovered documents and cinematics, as well as Hilda’s own diary, which she’ll update with sketches and observations.
Build Your Own Legacy
The world of Asterigos is full of secrets and untold stories. Find over 100 collectibles, complete numerous side quests and build on your legacy in the New Game+ mode!
Thanks, Gematsu.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It says it's a modern action RPG, but what I saw from the trailers was ballet style combat that I see in Souls and souls-likes. Not sure if I'm going to bite, because I just want me an action RPG where I'm not locked in a room with 1-4 enemies and having to constantly dance around them.
Really miss the days when action RPG's were their own thing, instead of today where almost everyone is trying to mix a lot of Souls into their own game DNA.
I think people need to calm down with throwing the words "souls-like" around. Action RPG was a genre long before Demon Souls was a thing. Unless the devs had already mentioned it's inspired by Souls games, by the trailer at least, it doesn't look like one to me.
Agreed, it's overused for sure and often just used for Action-RPGs or difficult games. I've seen Monster Hunter described as a Souls-like and that's a series that predates Demon Souls by several years.
Well tbf, it is an action RPG, but it definitely contains some souls DNA, because you cannot go right up to a giant monster and slice n' dice it like Dante from DMC, no, you get smacked if you don't time your attacks right and you get punished for it (like what happens in all Souls games).
You can say it predates, but that's like saying no one has ever copied others before, and we all know that's not true, MH will have taken ideas over time from other games, including Souls (especially when you consider the fact that Souls games have greatly influenced a myriad of studios over the years, that is undeniable).
I think you miss the point of my post in several ways, I didn't even specifically mention this game myself as it's hard to tell from the trailer just how similar to souls this one is in particular, I'm just more just talking about the term in general being overused. The way I see it you can't define a "souls-like" by the combat alone, since the combat system frankly isn't what's unique or defining about the Souls games. You had similar combat all the way back in OoT and again in Monster Hunter where the only main difference is there was no lock on (until recent entries). What's more unique about Souls is it's particular way of punishment like you mention (mainly the soul dropping mechanic) and it's level/encounter design (for level design it's basicly an intricate metroidvania in 3D and fairly few games go for that, even among those labeled "souls-like"). I personally think it's only the games that share these with it, that it makes any sense to call "souls-like", and frankly it isn't a huge number of games that fit that bill. Hollow Knight is probably the best known one that I would say qualifies, and that isn't even a 3D game.
If it's hard to tell from the trailer for you, are you saying it would be hard for me to tell as well?, because I saw what I saw, and I've seen the overview from the game, the same overview that the devs are using on their Steam page, it literally has Souls DNA in it's makeup.
You can still be a souls-like when you borrow 1-3 mechanics and styles from Souls, you don't have to be 100% to the note. We're still getting Doom clones to this day and they aren't going all in to be 99.9% like Doom.
yes we've had different combat styles before Souls existed, but Souls is what it is and it's clearly defined itself to the world, to a point where other studios and devs are trying to emulate it's dna into their own games, and some devs even make it obvious in their game overviews.
Well we are clearly in disagreement about what defines a souls-like, because again if there is such a thing as "Souls DNA" I would view that as the things I listed and not the combat style, as that was never unique to Souls to begin with.
It's practically been cemented as a tag for a sub genre of RPG, and the article even has the tag within it.
Action RPG btw does not auto translate to "Souls-Like", it just means it has some Souls DNA within it, that's all it means.
Also, from the game's overview:
"Play as Hilda—a brave young warrior from the Northwind Legion who embarks on a journey to the cursed city in order to save her lost father. The gameplay elements inspired by soulslike games alongside a lighter, dynamic combat system, create a fresh take on the modern action RPG genre, providing you with a harmonious difficulty and exploration balance."
It looks like one to me via it's style of flurry combat and the few enemies on screen, being locked in a room with a boss or 1-3 enemies, that's what Souls-likes and Souls do (besides mob trash, which MMO's and other RPG's do, as well as Souls at times).
So do Zelda games. I agree with what you say but the term is wearing a bit thin when in reality many of these 'soulslikes' are just action RPG with a lock on. Souls is a lot more than that, it joined a lot of different gameplay mechanics to form 1 type of package and these games shouldn't have to use the term just to get people to notice them.
I mean, it's bound to wear thin, the same did happen for games back in the day that were cited as "Doom clones".
Also there are some games that do include some factors of Souls DNA, stemming from bonfires, losing resources upon death, having to retrace steps to get back said resources, locked in a rather large room with a boss or a few enemies, all of which you have to dodge carefully.
This game already has the combat and locked in a room on their checklist so far, but that might be as far as they go.
My main gripe with copying the Souls DNA, is that not everyone likes losing resources the way you do in those games, and ppl like me dislike the whole "commit to action" style of combat, because I'm used to games like Street Fighter and DMC, where I can cancel a combat animation, instead of swinging a weapon in what looks like slow motion, while an enemy moves at lightspeed around my attack animation to then KO me (That's what it feels like to me anyway).
Looks interesting, will keep and eye on this.
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