Fantasy beat ’em up Absolum brings a roguelike’s rinse and repeat formula to the arcade brawler | Gaming

When you die in Absolum, you are literally reborn from the glowing womb of a giant pregnant lady. This is not how beat ’em ups normally go. The newly announced left-to-right puncher from the developers of Streets Of Rage 4 plans to inject a bunch of roguelike fungus into the bulging musculature of the classic arcade brawler, then dress it in a big fantasy frog suit that’s been handcrafted by a traditional animation studio. It’s a tight squeeze, but having played an hour of a preview build, it certainly looks the part. Although I order you never to use the term “rogue ’em up” to describe it, an explosively upsetting term publisher Dotemu has cheekily tried to invent.

You play a quartet of cartoony adventurers, a bit inspired by the heroics of old Dungeons and Dragons…more

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