Fire Emblem inspired SRPG, Dark Deity announced, coming to Steam in Spring 2021

[texhnolyze]

After their successful Kickstarter to polish up the game, they're finally ready to reveal the release window with the Steam page.

Features

• An expansive and original story
• 30 playable characters
• 54 playable classes
• 320 weapons/spells
• 120+ skills
• Varied and challenging map design
• 450+ unit bond conversations
• 30+ aspects, game-changing relics

Dark Deity - Main Theme

I'm an electronic music producer and game composer based in California. https://soaringsoundworks.com/

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Much more info on their website and Kickstarter page.

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[SheriffMcDuck]

*sigh* yeah I'm in. Anything GBA FE reminiscent is an insta buy for me. Hopefully it turns out great!

 

[Qvoth]

this seems quite good

 

[FF Seraphim]

This looks interesting. Only thing that worries me is how low the cost of the Kickstarter is. I guess they just need that amount for publishing?

 

[Jintor]

hrmmm... tilework and battle animations still need a few passes. Good idle poses though. Not sure I care for the look of the talky-bits yet. But also, competition in this space = gud

 

[DominicanGlory]

Shit looks great

 

[PBalfredo]

Looks promising. Seems to be taking influence from the GBA games.

Which reminds me, I should play Vertaria Saga one of these days.

 

[DecoReturns]

Seeing old school Fire Emblem combat animations threw me off cause Blue units would always be on the Right side lol.

 

[texhnolyze]

The only thing lacking for me is the artstyle, which is understandable considering the team's background and budget. But they did spend some money on voice acting, which I believe should've been allocated on hiring a more accomplished anime artist instead. But oh well.

 

[_zoipi]

Looks nice but the style mashing of pixelart and some effects that look clipart are hard hitting...

 

[Random Character]

I hope this gets ported to consoles but nevertheless I'm excited as this seems promising.

 

[aiswyda]

Neat! Curious as to how long the campaign will be 🤔

 

[Cameron122]

Looks good!!

 

[ManNR]

Yeah, the map art style is very bland from what I can see in the video. I do appreciate the sprite animations though they may be a little too animated. Would also love for the character portraits to be more in line with the sprites.

However, I can imagine the game itself will make a lot of people very happy.

Meanwhile, I'm just waiting on the Ogre Battle-influenced Oathborne game.

 

[fluffydelusions]

I'll keep an eye on this

 

[Xavi]

Battle animation needs more work but other than that it looks great. Wishlisted.

 

[texhnolyze]

Here's another video showcasing some characters' VA and battle animation. Much better than what's shown in the kickstarter video, which was from May 2020's reveal trailer.

 

[Android Sophia]

Looks pretty cool, but there's a bit of a mishmash between various elements of the UI and art style. Some extremely high resolution UI work mixed in with some oldschool SNES/GBA/2D PS1 style art.

 

[LordGorchnik]

Added to the wishlist. Gonna keep a close eye on this one in the months after release.

 

[Vic_Viper]

Im all in! Been dying for a good Fire Emblem like game after Three Houses. Also love that there are more classes and character types than just the standard fantasy types.

Thanks for sharing!

This looks interesting. Only thing that worries me is how low the cost of the Kickstarter is. I guess they just need that amount for publishing?

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Sounds like it was just to make the improvements they showed off at the end of the trailer in the Op. Like the new sprites and animations.

 

[Strings]

Y'all fiending for this stuff should check out the games Kaga (creator of FE) made after he left IS because they're fantastic (Tear Ring Saga, Berwick Saga, Vestaria Saga (well, this is dramatically smaller budget because it's an SRPG maker game, but it's still above the level of the stuff in OP)).

Will check this out when it releases, even though I'm really not into the character designs.

 

[BasilZero]

Love SRPGs and been loving FE lately so this is great.

 

[texhnolyze]

Y'all fiending for this stuff should check out the games Kaga (creator of FE) made after he left IS because they're fantastic (Tear Ring Saga, Berwick Saga, Vestaria Saga (well, this is dramatically smaller budget because it's an SRPG maker game, but it's still above the level of the stuff in OP)).

Will check this out when it releases, even though I'm really not into the character designs.

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I've played Berwick Saga, and tried Vestaria Saga demo. Berwick was awesome, while kind of different due to its hexagonal map. Vestaria Saga though, is kinda rough especially the battle animation. It's the combination of low framerates and choppy animation that threw me off. I'm sure everything else is superb, and I should be able to skip the animation. So I might give it another look later, it's on my whistlist anyway.

 

[Hours Left]

All the female characters have boob armor/revealing clothes, while every male character is completely covered up. :/

 

[CSX]

I'm in. Hopefully provides the FE itch as we wait for the next mainline game :)

 

[DiceyRobot]

The character designs and cutscenes have me cringing a bit (boob armor is just...ugh), but I do like the homage to GBA FEs. They're still up there as my favorite SRPGs. I'm just not totally feeling this iteration at the moment...maybe gameplay impressions later on will help me decide.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Kinda liking what I'm seeing

 

[Hella]

The female character designs in this game are fucking tragic. Somehow worse than Fire Emblem itself.

As much as I like SRPGs, I think I'm good.

 

[Het_Nkik]

The art style outside of the gameplay and character design is making this a hard pass for me. Not into it at all.

 

[Derkon]

I see FE style battles and I'm in.

 

[Mengetsu]

Oh in the kickstarter it says Switch Xbox and Playstation! Is this coming day and date with the PC release for PS4/5?

Edit: They said PC is primarily release first in the FAQ. But they want to port it to consoles in the future.

 

[ryushe]

Here's another video showcasing some characters' VA and battle animation. Much better than what's shown in the kickstarter video, which was from May 2020's reveal trailer.

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Yeah, this looks much better.

 

[Nilou]

This looks great. Just like with Animal Crossing and Pokémon the more similar style games to each series the better.

 

[Aurica]

The second video OP posted shows some really great combat animations. I'm in as long as I hear good things, but...

Will check this out when it releases, even though I'm really not into the character designs.

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All the female characters have boob armor/revealing clothes, while every male character is completely covered up. :/

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I had the same thoughts. The character art is pretty disappointing all around, really.

 

[texhnolyze]

The devs are a group of 2020 college graduate boys, so that probably explains the sexualized design of the female characters. There's these female knights with wide open boob armors and skimpy leggings like that Iris character, sigh. And of course there must be a sexy female wizard character too (Sloane) in these games. While also sexualized, Brooke's outfit seems fine to me. It's definitely hampering my excitement, especially since the main characters from the main banners look fine for the most part, probably because most of them are boys.

 

[aiswyda]

The characters designs do feel very safe to me. Like, I can get on board with a sexy lady or two if it's a fun or interesting outfit--but none of these designs seemed particularly fun, just seem more like sexy for the sake of being sexy. And the dude outfits are pretty typical for the genre--armor or maybe some chest hair, nothing too exciting.

Just gimme a little diversity, and let some women wear pants.

 

[Hours Left]

It's about balance and inclusion IMO. Nothing wrong with some sex appeal, but why aren't any of the guys showing some skin? And why does practically every female character have to be sexy?

Show some beefcake with your cheesecake, and let women wear some pants. It's not that difficult!

 

[rickyson33]

this got a new trailer today



release date announcement and extended trailer cut tomorrow apparently

 

[Random Character]

this got a new trailer today



release date announcement and extended trailer cut tomorrow apparently

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So it might appear in the Nintendo direct?

 

[rickyson33]

So it might appear in the Nintendo direct?

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youtube page says 3:18 PST which from the schedule the only thing that would possibly fit is the Bandai Namco event?

not sure why it would show up there but that is a pretty specific time so who knows

I guess it might just show up during the E3 stream not as part of any specific show or something? no idea

 

[Random Character]

youtube page says 3:18 PST which from the schedule the only thing that would possibly fit is the Bandai Namco event?

not sure why it would show up there but that is a pretty specific time so who knows

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Interesting perhaps Namco is publishing the game now? Either way I can't wait to see more and I am crossing my fingers Nintendo also announces a new Fire Emblem game for Switch heck I'd even take a remake.

 

[Giga Man]

I've got my eyes on it. Could be good.

 

[Lunar Wolf]

But can my units marry each other and have kids.

Do I get ending cards describing my pairings?

 

[King Dodongo]

Looks good tbh. Love these games.

 

[Totakeke]

This is shadow dropped on steam today.

 

[Echizen]

Gonna see if there are any early impressions, but I'm leaning heavily towards just picking this up. It looks really promising

 

[Random Character]

Damn I just spent a bunch of my extra spending money on Ratchet and picking up a few titles in the PSN summer sale so I can't this up today. Will pick this up soon though unless is this game coming to Switch or PS5/PS4 then I can wait.

 

[RiOrius]

Oh wow, this looks great! I'll probably pick this up in a couple days assuming there's nothing too negative coming out about it.

 

[Wilsongt]

So just about finished with the first battle. So far the one annoyance I have is the DARK DIETY screen popping up during loading, but for the first battle, it's straight up Fire Emblem.

 

[The Awesomest]

So, as a Fire Emblem fan, any major differences from old-school FE games? New features? Improvements?