The Next Big Roguelike is Here and it's Perfect | Windblown

[@malikhittam1440]

It's so disappointing to see some fans of hades and dead cells be so stingy when it comes to the devs trying new stuff out. Both windblown and hades 2 look like legendary projects, which will most likely go on to be some of the best games games in the genre. Most of the negative responses I have seen for these games are that they are very different from the previous ones, which is just such a shame because trying new stuff is what might eventually elevate them above their predecessors

[@GrimmBones]

Yeah, that's often a problem Devs face. If it's different, people will whine it's too different. If it's almost the same, people will whine it's the same thing. They will never be able to satisfy everyone, so they satisfy those who they can, and those who will appreciate it.

[@chomperwithcheesecake]

Dead Cells fans do have *some* reason why they are so mad. While not confirmed, there was alot of rumors inside of Motion Twin and Evil Empire that MT forced EE to stop working on dead cells so that windblown can have more of a spotlight. While that does suck, they are definitely too hypocritical about the next game

[@freshFerdinand]

@@chomperwithcheesecake Dead Cells got an absolutely crazy amount of updates over the years, it's stupid to throw a fit because they decided that they're finished with it.

[@sharkhead216]

You make a great point about exceeding your predecessor with new titles. I loved Hades to death for many years, and I was super excited for Hades 2 after so long. Hades 2, at least to me feels the same as Hades 1 but improved and expanded. Going back to Hades 1 now feels off like it's a little clunkier and feels like it's missing something to tie everything together. Imo that's what any sequel or new approach should be doing! Breath of the Wilds successor ToTK has the same essence, they took what was good from the base game and expanded on it. It's not trashing the original but you can feel the maturity across the titles as the various gameplay mechanics and systems get updated and given a new breath of life.

[@chomperwithcheesecake]

@@freshFerdinand I’m not saying I agree with them, those people are way too harsh on windblown, and I love windblown so far (my second mistake anticipated game this year) but dead cells did get somewhat cucked with a blow average final update, and there were more planned updates that won’t see the light of day. Those fans are mad at that and take that anger out on windblown

[@TheHeartThatRunsCold]

I was skeptical of top-down 3D dead cells. Played it, and it shut me up. It definitely lives up to its name because I was blown away.

[@DanaWhiteBoym8]

Windblown away

[@michaelj4068]

Looks incredible! Something brand new, but also a blend of dead cells and curse of the dead gods in the best way

[@phiphi2209]

They did not need to cook as hard as they did with this ost. ITS SO CATCHY AND ROPED ME IN EVER SINCE THE INTRO. Oh yeah and the game play is absolute perfection, take that high speed thrilling combat of dead cells and apply it to a top down perspective with areas that remind me strangely of solar ash of all things and you end up with this amazing game. SO happy to have it finally out

[@PandaWithAnASharp]

I knew as soon as I played the demo that this game was 100% for me. Bought it at exactly 11am at its launch time. And already have 6 hours in it. Combining the time of the demo i have a total of 14 hours in this game. Love it so much

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

lotta terrific indies launched in September and October. this is on my wishlist

[@Teryte]

Windblown is probably the game this year I've been most hyped for, and it's better than I thought

[@KazekanAgiel]

0:23 - Pretty sure the word you were lookin' for is "isometric."

[@isaachunt6694]

it is not isometric, it's 3D. Isometric is 2D that appears as 3D.

[@RichHeart89]

Isometric just means drawing 3D-looking objects without using vanishing points. This game uses 3D object with a perspective that resembles isometric projection but is still very much a 3D game

[@aaronkaw4857]

I just gave the game a try just now, and I love this! The mechanics of weapons and enemies is really good! Looking forward to seeing how creative they get as a player improves.

[@rayray0987]

"Finally took a hit", bro, it was the second group of enemies.

[@Dan_Tasty]

Looks great. One thing that bugs me is the text pop ups for the challenge and all of the gift descriptions have no life like the rest of the world. After playing Sky: Children of the Light and loving how immersive the stylized world is absent of most text it makes switching to games that just have blocks of writing on the screen that aren't well integrated into the gameplay experience very jarring. I'd love an option (or mod) to turn off those distractions and replace them with symbols that fit the stylization of the world as well as replacing the sprites for the cooldowns and collectables with graphics that don't look like they're from an entirely different game. Obviously this adds a "hard mode" aspect that I'd want to be completely opt in, but I think you can get the same ideas across in a more integrated way. Diegesis is the word used in film for when meta-communication is integrated into the film via a physical manifestation of the format, usually when narration or score which are typically technical functions of the film have an in-universe source like a radio or character who's revealed to be existing offscreen. I'd love it if games eschewed common modes of communicating information for more immersive ones like that more often. Bit of a side rant, but I reckon the relationship between narrative and UI is fun to talk about

[@ByrneBaby]

me dropping a like and comment for algo while using Haelian as an indie game news station (this one looks sick, can't watch for spoilers but ty for tipping me off to this one)

[@MinaTepesshu]

The music is soooo Phantasy Star Online. I love it.

[@occamsbutterknife9186]

been playing this demo a lot! I can't wait for this and 13Z to come out!

[@HVH_49]

The game looks amazing despite it still early access. I will pick this game up when the full version comes out. In the mean time, I’ll support the devs by spreading information about this game. I’ve played Dead Cells before and I can say that DC was a great game. Clear progression and I’m still stuck at 4 (Hell Difficulty) and yet to beat the original ending but I’ve been playing it since 2022.

[@malikhittam1440]

Haven't played this game yet but holy hell that gameplay looks buttery smooth 👌 Gonna have to try this out. Dead cells devs don't disappoint

[@TheCaptainDamage]

I will LOOOOVE to see the first Speedruns from you! :O

[@ezpz2308]

This looks very high quality, hopefully it will have the depth of dead cells if not more.

[@Tyelkormoko]

Amazing showcase, gonna hit the stream soon!

[@ascendable7065]

Looks amazing, will give me headaches for sure can't wait 🎉

[@octogorb9853]

Will say love this game and so far I only got one complaint, the Elite modifier with the shadowclone just, isnt good depending on which big enemy it rolls on. Had one with the saw guy and could not punish them at all without getting hit. Besides that, love everything else about the game.

[@michaelnapper4565]

Really enjoying this so far. It's definitely hard though

[@benjtheo414]

looks very cool, only complaint so far is that its pretty difficult to tell what hit you.

[@makri969]

INSANE gameplay and visuals. Looks so clean! But dunno if im a fan of the scrappy woodland creature world aesthetic. Something about it bothers me.

[@laizerwoolf]

This would be a great game for the steamdeck.

[@chozo914]

Seems to have some of the issues dead cells had with stage generation at a glance. Colors are all over the place too, they had to make a bright blue light just so ur char doesn't dissappear.

[@84SuperBeast]

IIRC Dead Cells crits were just conditional. Not % based. Seems this game is also like that. So like crit damage would be good if you can meet the condition of the weapon's crit easily. I dunno if I missed that being brought up later in the video. Also watching the first 5 minutes of the video made me decide to flip a coin on whether I should get the game now or wait for a later date. Spoiler: I now own the game

[@HyddenDark]

This looks so ridiculously fun 😍

[@vertigoft_3004]

i love the game so far, but one thing im not sure of is if the body type matters at all or if its purely cosmetic?

[@sh1k4maru]

Appreciate the vid. Thanks for the content

[@Fragmaster01]

I'd say it looks a little easy, but I remember how Dead Cells had a very tall difficulty curve where it starts easy and gets absurd, so I imagine that the difficulty is yet to come.

[@PandaWithAnASharp]

Oh yea this game is brutal. Especially at the end of a run. The 4th biome is amazing and also near impossible to beat on your first time entering it. And that's at default difficulty

[@mcnugget9999]

Wow this looks really fun

[@BahnYahd]

I’m loving this game so far 5 hours in

[@johnvendettiri]

absolutely love this game

[@stargazer137]

damn that looks crispy af.

[@carlitosjuarez221]

I like it slow but at times fast is good too.

[@HotelVice]

What is the best way to categorize these the difference between this game, hade 2, and ravenswatch?

[@prashantgaikwad9808]

Windblown =mindblown

[@RichHeart89]

The music reminds me a bit of Nier Automata

[@ac31454]

yeah might need to get this one

[@gadsanchez4929]

I didn't even finished this video man sorry Lol I had to go back blasting in game

[@preslim84]

looks cool. i dont do early access though so i'll be back for release

[@Silence867]

they need to work on level music its loud and overlaps sfx a lot, while not responding to different level states. fighting or chilling doesnt matter.

[@2admie]

Wait. Does GOTY means that it is better than Hades 2? Blasphemy?

[@henrycummins5198]

Saw this video so I bought it and hated it within the first 15 minutes LMAO. I wasn't a fan of dead cells either so not a surprise to me. Hope they can turn it into a good game because right now it's a choppy experience imo.

[@magnusegea3173]

[@ExperiencePath]

this game feels so plain/basic, I want more "troll your friend" moment/option added in the game. just a very surface suggestion would be like being knockback and fall off the platform.

[@flowarius]

I love the Artistic Direction but I'm afraid gameplay will be too nervous / speedy for me..

[@mooseclamps]

although I prefer this top down style (similar to hades) over the side scroller style, I can't say I like the look of this too much. Just gives cheap indie game vibes from circa 2012. I feel like I've seen this exact game before

[@4Moth2Mellow0]

@@mooseclamps of course you have this is just hades

[@joshuawyatt6952]

Looks like shield dude in the second area is holding a cheese grater lol.

[@loujr9869]

So disappointing that these games are not DRM free… you pay top dollar just to rent these games and they cant be taken from you at any time

[@georgekphilip1284]

Anyone play this on the Rog Ally?

[@heekoo_8287]

The word you were looking for at the start is isometric

[@MEMUNDOLOL]

colors are off, color scheme reminds me of concord and how everything was blended, people who made this game have no idea about basic color theory

[@kamazooliy]

Lol young idiots everywhere

[@aktin6011]

@@MEMUNDOLOL oh no not the color theory….

[@PurplePikminSupremacy]

. . .Really? The game looks very clean to me.

[@TheSilentVox]

If you don't have a controller or just simply don't like using one like myself DO NOT BUY. This games M&KB is really really bad they don't even have support for something like attacking in direction of cursor like Hades titles and you cant just click on stuff in menus it just feels really clunky. Wait till they add better support for M&KB if that's what you like to use.

[@Γιαννηςατης]

Wait, there's a demo out? Is on my wishlist and i didn't get any notification

[@ak49]

Tried it and i felt it kinda meh. Actually 2 many dashes who would have thought

[@brianchu8147]

Isometric might be the term?

[@heroicgoo915]

Saying its like Dead Cells is misleading to say the least. It IS a good game in the making, but Dead Cells it is NOT!

[@dmnsnt5472]

Game looks ass

[@hüseyinörgü]

mobile Will she come mobile Will he come

[@survivalquest5742]

to me it looks like a downgrade from dead cells

[@flyingthor2650]

you are just holding on to nostalgia

[@thirtydaysveganandcounting]

Apples and oranges my dude, you don't have to like it, but after playing it in private alpha for months it is really good at what it does.

[@Darkdray123]

They’re made by different teams and are different styles of games and if you think sacrificing playing dead cells to play this harms you in any way then I guess you shouldn’t buy it

[@tomoprime217]

Meh