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Bolt & Whalington, a unique metroidvania with a "meta" mechanic that rewrites the game, is announced for PC with an unknown release window (video.fastly.steamstatic.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by chrisbrummel@infosec.pub to c/metroidvanias@infosec.pub

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Bolt & Whalington is a Metroidvania game where you play as Bolt, a Siamese cat exploring the floating ruins of Whalington. Reshape abilities and rewrite world rules with the "Setting Machine," switch mecha forms to craft weapons, battle enemies, and uncover the secret of Whalington.

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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Rule #1: Any game referring to itself as unique isn't.

[–] chrisbrummel@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

That’s my description. The mechanic is something I haven’t heard of before. It may be gimmicky, but we’ll see…

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While this one isn't a terrible offender, I'm amazed at how many game descriptions I could read and still know nothing about the game.

Marketing-speak is just useless.

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not even marketing speak. I'm an actual marketing copywriter.

It's a bland description of a type of game and of game features. Nothing exciting about how it's written.

Since the dev replied to me, I was thinking of offering them free help, since it's a competitive marketplace and I like seeing small developers succeed. except then I saw they used AI in the game's development. Hard pass.