Venetica - Twilight World Press Release

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dtp sent out this Venetica press release, revealing the Twilight World:
Venetica: Experience the dark Action RPG features of the Twilight World

Hamburg/Germany, January 19th, 2009 – In dtp entertainment’s upcoming Action RPG Venetica players take over the role of Scarlett, Grim Reaper’s daughter who is young and beautiful.. Set in a fantastic Venice, it is her mission to fight the pure evil.

Venetica takes players to the here and now of its fantastic game world, making Scarlett explore Venice’s streets, canals, houses and even the roof tops. As the daughter of Death, she also has the ability to enter the Twilight World: the world of the dead. Here, she communicates with the dead and gets access to a number of unique gameplay elements. To achieve this, Scarlett needs to learn and train for special, supernatural skills and abilities – of which she initially doesn’t even know exist…

During the game, her skills and abilities will allow her to get deeper and deeper into the Twilight World, and, for instance, ask the dead for help.
Here and there, the dead help Scarlett to accomplish her missions by giving her hints: There are two ghosts, for example, who help Scarlett to find special items by revealing hidden doors or showing her helpful hints that will allow her to pick locks successfully. Scarlett meets these guys early in the game, when they still are alive. She helps them, but can’t avert that both will be killed later in the game.

It’s not just Good that awaits Scarlett in the Twilight World – the pure evil lurks there too, waiting the daughter of Death. Those who know the story of Venetica are aware of the bad necromancer, who is the source of all evil in the game’s story. He, Viktor, empowered himself with the Grim Reaper’s supernatural powers and now threatens the world. So, it’s not only countless horrific creatures that are waiting for Scarlett. Viktor’s powerful accomplices also hound her..

Equipped with supernatural powers, Viktor’s allies await Scarlett in the Twilight World once she has defeated them in the world of the Living. Now, Scarlett will face her real challenge: Using their powers, the evil helpers transform themselves into huge beasts, becoming even more powerful now that they reached the realm of the Dead.

Venetica’s Twilight World offers even more to the players: It’s not only special NPCs and enemies that resurrect in the world of the Dead – also Scarlett herself uses the underworld to re-awake. This allows her to generate herself tactical combat advantage, for instance by repositioning herself unseen while staying in the Twilight World, and afterwards surprisingly returning to the world of the living.

There is another special connection between Scarlett and the Twilight World: Her literally eternal love to Benedict, who dies just at the start of the game, bounds her to this world. Scarlett will meet her love regularly. In fact, Benedict will be the one who reveals Scarlett’s supernatural powers and who trains her in how to use them.

Many additional skills and abilities allow Scarlett to make even more use of the Twilight World, for instance by summoning creatures or by giving her unusual insights in both the worlds of the Living and the Dead. So, the Twilight World offers a full load of innovative gameplay features to Action RPG gamers.


<span>Venetica will be a cinematic Action RPG with an extraordinary and deep story. The game mixes emo...More information.
 
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It will be interesting to see if this game has any actual "choices and consequences", or if the RPG aspects end with placing skills/stat points. My guess is the latter, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
 
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I don't think it will be hardcore at all.
 
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I like that. It sounds fresh and unusual. Gotta love the wonderfully Teutonic prose of the press release too...
 
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They come from the adventure side of pc gaming. Ankh, Jack Keane. Good games, btw.

2nd dev diary is online: http://www.venetica-game.de/

Click Dev Diary, then 2nd Dev Diary, then click on the english flag in the upper corner to get it in english.
 
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There is another special connection between Scarlett and the Twilight World: Her literally eternal love to Benedict, who dies just at the start of the game, bounds her to this world. Scarlett will meet her love regularly. In fact, Benedict will be the one who reveals Scarlett’s supernatural powers and who trains her in how to use them.

That might be a bit weird . . .
 
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To you, of course ... :D
 
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TThe "necromany texts" he refers in the diary to might be the ancient ones from egyptian culture. At least I would expect this, because of their Ankh-Games.
 
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I think it sounds pretty lame - the "daughter of the Grim Reaper"? So ol' Grimmy finally knocked someone up after all, who was the lucky lady? Mother Nature?

I guess being the Grim Reaper's daughter could have it's advantages (nobody would pick on you in school), but overall it would have to really be difficult to be a normal kid. Try sneaking out at night to go have some fun when Death itself is literally peering over your shoulder the whole time. Who would want to hang out w/ you, much less date the freakin daughter of the Grim Reaper? Talk about a tough father to confront!

Just when you think youve heard it all. "Daughter of the Grim Reaper" would make a great b-movie title. At least the artwork's good, might get a decent desktop wallpaper for a few days out of the whole thing
 
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Pratchett did it quite well, once. ^^
 
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I think that's how a cliché develops ...
 
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