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Someone Dies in New ‘Last Year’ Gameplay Footage
Rounding out the weekend’s offering of slasher gaming goodness is some gameplay footage from Last Year, the 5 vs. 1 asymmetrical multiplayer stab ’em up that’s been fairly quiet since it was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in Dec 2014. Elastic Games recently showed off some of the game, which features nifty abilities for the killers, who can “use trap doors to capture people alive, and trigger an arsenal of environmental hazards to help you hunt down and destroy your victims.”
Meanwhile, the survivors will be tasked with, you know, surviving. This includes scavenging for resources to craft weapons and “build up your defences against an onslaught of Killers,” — incidentally, I now have an idea for a slasher-themed tower defense game, if anyone’s interested.
In this short clip that mostly consists of new gameplay footage, we get to see what it’d look like if the killer was a fan of the original Resident Evil and its memorable hallway scene.
Last Year releases this fall for PC.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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