Beautiful African fantasy RPG Aurion comes out April 14th
In 2011,
Elder Scrolls took players to the overtly Scandinavian nation of
Skyrim. This week,
Fire Emblem Fates will welcome Western players to the heavily Japanese Hoshido. And now we know that, on April 14th, 2016, Africa will finally get it’s due when
Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan opens up its Cameroon-inspired planet of Auriona.
Aurion aims to do for Cameroon what
Never Alone (2014) did for Alaska’s native Iñupiat people. It’s to be the first installment in its local developers’ planned
Kiro’o Tales, which hopes to advocate for African culture through games, comics, and cartoons. Last September,
Aurion earned $50,000 in a successful
Kickstarter campaign, no doubt due to its beautiful, folklore-influenced setting and bombastic real-time combat. Today, a new trailer sheds light on both of these elements, while at the same time explaining how
Aurion differs from the classic role-playing games that inspired it. [...]
New Trailer:
