I need to confess, it was not until this very hour that I envisaged the opportunity of an RPG social gathering consisting solely of clowns. There is a advantageous custom of clown characters in RPGs – Sylvando from Dragon Quest XI, Harle from Chrono Cross, the Jester in Darkest Dungeon – however an entire social gathering’s price? The total large prime? The utmost cabaret? Insanity! Pleasant insanity! Here is the trailer for Clowned King, the following recreation from Moonana, developer of the colorful and melodious Keylocker. I prefer it higher than a custard pie stuffed with razorblades. I like most issues higher than a custard pie stuffed with razorblades, however this comes fairly excessive up that record.
Clowned King is a turn-based tactics-me-do set within the Moonlit Kingdom, a world of tinted glass and, from the seems to be of issues, pugnacious brocolli. You might be Matheus, a disgraced harlequin prince who “conceals his bloody previous behind a masks of laughter”, and also you’re on a mission to recruit some badass buffoons as a way to do a darkside Heath Ledger in your villainous father, the Mad King Marduk.
The sport’s battle system takes inspiration from “Disgaea, Hearth Emblem and Brazilian tradition”, in response to the Steam web page, and places the highlight on formations, which unlock particular skills. I’m wondering if the suitable phrase right here is not “formation” however stagecraft? If this recreation does not make each final function an expression of clown tradition, it will be a sorry waste of a premise, to say nothing of a stable 7/10 title pun.
We are able to additionally count on “an immense quantity of mage class sorts”, which feels apposite – when clowns spec for melee, it tends to be as a result of they’re horror film clowns, who favour axes over hand buzzers. RPG clowns are extra of a bard variant, I assume. Fight apart, you will be “[bonding] with leaders from opposing realms to assist assist your combat towards the Mad King”. Ah sure, clown politicking, so not like the common variety.
Clowned King is out… at some stage. Whilst you wait, why not pattern precision platformer Clown Meat, through which it’s a must to cheer up a jester of planetary scale and distress, who spawned inside Jupiter’s Nice Purple Spot. Or how in regards to the traditional point-and-clicker Dropsy, through which the title character simply desires a hug. Come to consider it, we’re most likely overdue a clown recreation through which the clown is not an emblem or metaphor for sorrow and madness. If you recognize of 1, I might love to listen to about it.
