Creators Shovel Knight from Yacht Club Games presented their next game – Mina The HolLower. She is also inspired by projects from childhood, in particular Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and aesthetics Game Boy Color.
The main character is a brave inventor Mina, who has to save a whole island from a mysterious curse. Mina enters the hollow guild – they study the gifts of the Earth and own special equipment, which allows you to move underground faster than over it. But not all hollow use their talents for the good.
Gameplay – adventure action with magicalvegas-casino.co.uk a top view. Mina dives underground, quilting enemies with his faithful whip, but can fight with other weapons – unique techniques have been prepared for each. The heroine also bears trinkets, granting exotic effects, and pumps out at the expense of bones – local money. The locations of the game are filled with secrets and closely intertwined with each other.
Visual style Mina The HolLower Based on the Victorian Gothic horror (but the plot will still "warm your soul"). Pixel art is described as “Neksten version of the Game Boy Color”: the picture has the same resolution in height, but the ratio of sides 16: 9 instead of 4: 3. Technical restrictions of the GBC are carefully observed: the game does not have 3D, scaling and sprites, and assets are created with a dyeing limit – on each square of 8 x 8 pixels there may be no more than four colors.
GBC aesthetics are diluted with slightly more detailed animations and extremely responsive control. In addition, the soundtrack was created and recorded on the MSX computer. The composer was "Virtuos Chiptyun" Jake Kaufman (Jake Kaufman; Shovel Knight, Cyber Shadow, Shantae, Retro City Rampage, Contra 4).
Announcement Mina The HolLower accompanied by Kikstarter. As explains Yacht Club, Folk funding is not necessary for the sake of money – the studio allocated the largest part of the budget from its funds. With the help of Kikstarter, the team expects to collect a devoted community, the reviews of which will make the game even better. The minimum bar was taken in less than a day: the authors asked $ 311,503, and received more than $ 333,000 from more than 5,500 backers. There are another 29 days of fees ahead.
Judging by the marks on "Kikstarter", Mina The HolLower plan to release by the end of 2023. Platforms – PC (Steam), PlayStation, Xbox and Switch. The text translation into Russian is confirmed (and the voice acting in the game is still gone!).