PAX West 2024 Spotlight: Shueisha Games
Sheisha Games showed off Urban Myth Dissolution Center and Unyielder at PAX West 2024.
I had a chance to check out two upcoming titles from Shueisha Games at PAX West this year. Both of them are games you should be looking forward to.
The first was Trueworld Games’ upcoming boss-rush FPS, Unyielder. This fast-paced, challenging game was a feast for the eyes with its stylized visuals. The closest point of comparison I could make is the Spider-Man Spider-Verse movies, specifically how they combine framerates, often within a single shot. In Unyielder, movement in 3D looks like it's at a buttery, high framerate. In contrast, visual effects that look hand-painted, along with a few other details, such as item pick-ups, are animated on twos. The effect is highly cinematic and looks very slick as you rapidly zip around the arena fighting the boss. It’ll be interesting to see how it combines looter shooter and roguelike mechanics in a more extended play session.
The second demo I got to play was for Urban Myth Dissolution Center, an adventure game featuring beautiful pixel art graphics and an attractively limited color palette. Developer Hakababunko is known for their previous mystery title, Makoto Wakaido's Case Files. The protagonist in this one is Azami Fukurai, a young woman who discovers she can see psychic echoes through her glasses. She gets roped into joining a supernatural investigation agency by the mysterious high-level psychic Ayumu Meguriya. I loved the dialogue and cutscenes, and running investigations will be interesting because you search for clues in an in-game social network as well as at physical locations. This one has the potential to be one of my favorite games of the coming year.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center is planned for release in February 2025, while Unyielder will be released later in the year. Both look like phenomenal games, so make sure you wishlist them on Steam!
