Can a Sport Make You Flip the Controller Upside Down?

Hello! That is Alfonso del Cerro from Pentadimensional Video games.

At present I’ll touch upon one of many many experimental options included in our latest sport Tenebris Pictura. Can a sport make you flip the controller the wrong way up? Carry on studying to search out the reply (spoiler: the reply is sure however some gamers will refuse to do it).

In Tenebris Pictura you play the position of Magnus, a mystical investigator with psychic skills (just like the ultra-corporeal journey, i.e., the power to separate physique and soul) who has to discover an island, searching demons and fixing puzzles, beneath a thriller environment within the Victorian period. The sport may be very various and boasts all kinds of gameplay mechanics. One in all them will make you (possibly) flip your controller the wrong way up.

At one stage, a strong transdimensional entity known as Thronaton assaults Magnus and the hero asks his 4 horses for assist. The 4 equine associates may detach their souls from their our bodies, so the ultra-corporeal battle is served: Magnus and his 4 horses versus Thronaton.

The horses are positioned on display from left to proper and also you management them, evading Thronaton’s assaults and hanging again. The primary revolutionary function of the battle is that it’s important to management the 4 horses abruptly, with the 4 elements of the controller: the primary one with the left stick, the second with the d-pad, the third one with the correct stick and the fourth and remaining one with the ABXY entrance buttons. This lets you evade (left or proper) and assault (urgent up) with two, three or as much as 4 horses on the identical time. Sure, you learn that proper. The time period “finger gymnastics” acquires a brand new significance while you notice that it’s important to launch your controller and place it on a floor to have the ability to transfer 4 characters concurrently.

Regardless of the obvious issue, each participant understands intuitively what he/she has to do, as a result of the disposition of the horses on display is the same as the disposition of the 4 elements of the controller that transfer them… At the least, till the second confrontation. In that one, horror!, Thronaton turns the display the wrong way up and now the 4 horses are reversed with respect to the controller. In the meantime, an on-screen tutorial informs you of the one answer: turning the controller the wrong way up. Right here is the place most gamers I’ve seen in playtest periods escape laughing and really feel a mix of rigidity, incredulity and focus as they do what the sport tells them to do. These are essentially the most intentionally uncomfortable controls ever made in a console sport so far as I do know. Different gamers refuse to do it and (with larger issue), they mentally reverse the controls. The sport lets them achieve this, after all. It has no approach of telling them aside.

This minigame is simply a small pattern of the numerous unique mechanics that we’ve launched within the island of Tenebris Pictura as a way to discover and revel in them, like leaping into work, surviving the spontaneous teleport of the participant, fixing puzzles by way of tearing down the partitions of the room, or chasing movable doorways and home windows within the Mansion of Insanity. And relaxation assured, you possibly can play most of them whereas grabbing the controller correctly. The sport is out now and you may watch the trailer above.

Tenebris Pictura

Xbox Live

Tenebris Pictura

Pentadimensional Video games


2

$19.99

Presenting Tenebris Pictura, an ultra-corporeal motion journey delivered to you by the creators of Megaton Rainfall.

You may be plunged again to the Victorian period, taking part in the position of a mystical investigator with psychic skills who has landed in a misty, convoluted island, brimming with thriller. You have been invited there by an outdated good friend, to analyze his daughter’s disappearance. Earlier than lengthy, you are embroiled in a supernatural thriller linked with a shady sect, and sightings of extra-terrestrial beings that seem to have escaped from an odd assortment of work with doubtful origins.

DEFY THE UNKNOWN BEASTS

Conceal your physique from hazard and separate your soul to face the demon hordes. Dodge their barrages of ectoplasm and counter-attack along with your psychic power blasts…

However that will not be sufficient! That you must transfer the objects round and get your environment strategically ready. You may uncover and discover ways to use your unusual expertise and tips to divide and conquer, stopping your enemies’ progress despite being massively outnumbered.

SOLVE TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLES

On this island, the legal guidelines of nature appear to be crumbling: disappearing flooring transport you to far-away galaxies, shifting partitions, illusions and lights that create the atmosphere of their wake, transportable worlds discovered inside work…

An enormous number of puzzles to scramble your thoughts offered in a non-linear order, designed to just accept a number of inventive options.

EXPLORE A UNIQUE ISLAND

Use the Aeter Pendulum to search out murky presences in areas scattered throughout the island: misty forests, infested buildings and mansions with spooky basements that seem to have been used as laboratories for the paranormal.

Use your psychic skills to search out clues revealing what’s about to occur on the island…

Are you able to lose your self in a Victorian fantasy loaded with secrets and techniques and worlds inside worlds?