It’s great to have a Spanish studio’s work that in turn inspires other studios to develop video games. In this era, few developers have more international influence than Seville’s The Game Kitchen. Their Blasphemous range has been a huge success both at home and abroad. With this in mind, Voragine Game Studio wants to sow its seeds in the Metroidvania genre by announcing its next game: Eden’s Guardian.
“Basically, it’s a classic Metroid. It’s inspired by the art style of the game, which is kind of blasphemous because if you want to make a pixel art game, I think they’re the best and they’re from Spain.”,Director and designer Jesús Martínez and programmer Agus Sánchez told us during an interview at the last IndieDevDay Barcelona, which you can see below.
But Eden’s Guardian has a lot of personality, allowing it to (respectfully) distance itself from Cvstodia and its penitents, creating a hand-crafted pixel art dark fantasy world where the conflict between gods and humans has destroyed everything.Among these ruins, our roleprotector, a female creature born of gods and humans, who finally breaks free after being imprisoned for centuries. But when she wakes up, she finds that the beautiful world she once knew has collapsed under a mysterious curse. In search of answers to what happened in her absence, she embarks on a violent journey.
Of course, there’s also its novel mechanic that sets it apart from other games in the genre: you canThrow your sword or push it to the surface and teleport to itallowing you to surprise your enemies, as well as reach inaccessible places and cover distances.“We also looked at Hollow Knight. We had a nice mechanic, a unique mechanic where you could throw the sword and teleport to it. It was like Noctis’ mechanic in Final Fantasy XV, so we put It’s applied to Metroid, and yes, that’s just a small part of the game.
Although at the end of the interview they revealed that they are preparing a Kickstarter campaign to obtain funding, the creators have told us that development is scheduled to take approximately 18 months, so the most likely date to see the game will be 2025. But while we wait, here’s the first trailer for Eden’s Guardian, which you can watch below.
