Unknown 9: Awakening Aims to Fuse Body-Snatching Gameplay With a Strong Narrative

In case you’d relatively not play puppeteer, Unknown 9: Awakenings additionally has some stealth choices, the place you should utilize your powers to turn out to be invisible for a time and take down enemies from darkness or lure enemies away with ethereal projectiles summoned from skinny air. Sneaking up behind enemies to take them out has your kindly woman snatch the soul from her sufferer’s physique and tear it asunder, which is actually kinda alarming – however hey, that’s what you get for taking on arms towards a magic ninja. If subtlety isn’t your factor, simply go full brawler on these baddies with a complete slew of skills that allow you to pull and push enemies like a Jedi or block bullets with a magical “umbric defend”. There’s even a good parry mechanic for these trying to get sweaty with timing. Every of those approaches has their very own ability timber too, so you may degree up the playstyle you favor and turn out to be the last word goon-killing wizard. The part I used to be proven was solely 90 minutes or so into the journey, so one can solely think about the fascinating skills that may make themselves recognized at larger ranges.

That mentioned, I didn’t get to go hands-on with Awakening myself, and till I do it’s laborious to say if a few of these distinctive ideas, like stepping, will likely be sufficient to differentiate itself from comparable third-person adventures. At first look, they actually appear to do some fairly novel issues I haven’t seen earlier than, and that’s with out even having seen the entire ability tree but, however I’m nonetheless a tad involved that making fools out of enemies by possessing them and setting them up for failure won’t have legs after the 20 th time you’ve executed it. Right here’s hoping our hero has some methods up her sleeve that I didn’t get to see simply but.

Beating up dangerous guys apart, although, there’s additionally one thing to be mentioned about Unknown 9’s formidable worldbuilding and story, which already contains digital comics, a podcast audio drama, and novels, all as a technique of fleshing out the universe that Awakening will occupy. As a younger girl from India named Haroona, you uncover your psychic skills and start to examine a paranormal parallel actuality generally known as the Fold, from which your powers are presumably derived, and that each one performs into the present lore that’s being arrange within the supplemental content material, together with laying the groundwork for varied factions you’ll encounter within the recreation, just like the enigmatic and knowledge-hungry group generally known as The Leap 12 months Society. Having now learn the comics and listened to among the scripted podcast content material, that groundwork appears to have a lot of promise, and if it may be weaved into the story that appears to be entrance and heart in Unknown 9: Awakening, that might be a main cause to regulate this one.