By Nathan Grayson on August 15th, 2012 at 8:00 pm.
It’s been an almost absurdly good year for adventure games, but there are still four months left on the calendar. And so along comes the Wormwood-developed Primordia, coated head-to-mechanized-toe in dystopic dust, but holding its head high thanks to a partnership with Wadjet Eye Games, which puts it alongside the likes of Resonance, Gemini Rue, Blackwell Deception, and The Shivah – among others. In short, the hand-drawn, well, everything looks gorgeous, and the concept’s not sounding too shabby either. Also, like Resonance, it features the mesmerizingly gruff tones of none other than Logan Cunningham – aka, the Bastion narrator.
Compared to the trailer – which really gives the world flavor – the on-paper description of the story ends up sounding a bit flat. Observe:
“Ages have passed since legendary Man walked the planet. Now, in the desolate wastelands beyond the city of Metropol, a solitary robot named Horatio jealously guards his freedom and independence. All that is taken away from him when a marauding foe steals his power source, forcing him to leave the safety of his home and set out on a perilous journey into the wastes – and into his own mysterious past.”
Human extinction, mysterious pasts, wastelands, etc. It’s definitely been done before. But Wadjet Eye’s adventuring track record is nothing to scoff at, and I can’t wait to see where this one takes us. Fortunately, it sounds like my impatience will be rewarded, as Primordia’s slated for a “Fall 2012″ release. So then, Summer, you can leave now. Go on. You’ve already shown us your full hand with The Olympics, and you’re too hot anyway.
15/08/2012 at 20:19 Trithne says:
Filing this away under ‘Please remember to nab this when it comes out’ It looks fantastic.
16/08/2012 at 13:10 pr1001 says:
Might I toot my own horn and suggest you try my service GameLater? I developed it specifically to save interesting games I discover on RPS.
20/08/2012 at 11:26 alhazan says:
What does it do, precisely? There’s an “about” link but it appears to be out of order.
15/08/2012 at 20:23 LionsPhil says:
“…and formats it afresh”.
Eeeeeeeeeesh.
Graphical style’s just a tiny bit Beneath a Steel Sky. Which is nice.
15/08/2012 at 20:28 linzhanfc says:
http://brk.to/ff9p
15/08/2012 at 20:37 Perjoss says:
The above link has nothing to do with the news article
15/08/2012 at 20:39 LionsPhil says:
RPS really needs the Report links back, if only to clean up after the spambots.
15/08/2012 at 21:03 Rikard Peterson says:
If it’s possible to ban URL shorteners, that’d take care of most of them.
15/08/2012 at 21:11 LionsPhil says:
Or users posting the exact same thing across multiple articles within minutes. I know spam detection is seriously hard to do completely (especially the comment-reposting bastards, with their machine-learning-thwarting wiles), but this is pretty low-hanging fruit.
16/08/2012 at 00:43 thebigJ_A says:
It want’s to do less, and take more than it deserves. When will Man come and format it afresh??
16/08/2012 at 15:01 MadTinkerer says:
It’s just one of a million imperfect parts.
15/08/2012 at 21:13 pilouuuu says:
I like those graphics! It’s like Beneath a Steel Sky meets Machinarium. Even the crappy animations have a certain charm to them, like if they were papercut out figures.
16/08/2012 at 00:33 Peder Johnsen says:
Crappy animations?
16/08/2012 at 21:42 pilouuuu says:
Well, maybe crappy is not the right word. I’d say they are rudimentary, but charmy. We must consider that robots are not known for being very animated!
15/08/2012 at 21:18 Petethegoat says:
“everything looks gorgeous”
My thoughts exactly, upon seeing that screenshot.
15/08/2012 at 21:31 povu says:
You can never have too much Logan Cunningham.
15/08/2012 at 21:33 Trent Hawkins says:
Some Robots just want to watch the world burn
15/08/2012 at 21:34 noom says:
Definite “Take my money!” on that one. Looks absolutely stunning.
15/08/2012 at 22:07 Zeewolf says:
Loved the music.
Guess this is yet another “must have”-game from Wadjet Eye. I think the only Wadjet developed/published game I haven’t bought is the wrestling-themed one.
15/08/2012 at 23:21 rustybroomhandle says:
Waaaaaa, this is more or less the setup of the game I am making. Foetal position imminent. Maybe I’ll just make an FPS instead.
15/08/2012 at 23:22 alms says:
The title made me believe for a moment that Nuernberger and Vince XII had decided to make a game together.
16/08/2012 at 01:47 aequidens says:
I’m Bobbin. Are you my mother?
16/08/2012 at 04:51 orient says:
I like the art but it’s very dark in places, almost too dark to appreciate. Hope that doesn’t cause any pixel-hunting issues.
Keeping my eyes on this one.
16/08/2012 at 08:32 Toberoth says:
Phwoar, this looks great. Will buy.