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Ruggero Deodato’s ‘Cannibal Tales’ Aiming for February Release; Updated Demo Coming Soon [Teaser]
2024 will start things off with a bang for those waiting to play Fantastico Studio’s Cannibal Tales. The developer posted a new update to the game’s Steam page, announcing that development is close to completion. Not only that, but the team is once again confirming the goal to release Cannibal Tales “for the end of February.”
“We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve completed the implementation of all the game scenes,” reads the statement. “Currently, we’re focusing on refining the settings and saving features. Our goal is to wrap up development by January.”
The team also announced that they’ll be participating in February’s Steam Next Fest with a new demo for Cannibal Tales. You can still find the original demo that was released back in October on the game’s Steam page, just in case you wanted to get your comparisons out of the way.
As for that long-awaited release, the team is still focusing on that planned end of February release range.
For those that need a refresher, Fantastico Studio had announced a collaboration with Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato back in 2020 for a video game that was touted as the “fourth, highly awaited chapter of Deodato’s cannibals cycle”. Titled Cannibal, the game then underwent a name change to Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare. From there, things got a bit dicey. Along with Deodato’s passing, the team ran out of money for development, which caused them to pivot development to create a visual novel based on a Deodato screenplay.
The new game, now titled Cannibal Tales, will be divided into three chapters. The first entry, “The Interview”, sees Helena, a journalist at “Bloody Disgusting” (no relation), determined to get a scoop that will allow her to become a partner at the newspaper. To do so, Helena decides to pursue a mystery surrounding Noah, a young survivor of metropolitan cannibal known as Price.
Aiming to unravel the connection between the two of them, and understand why Noah was spared, Helena presses for an interview. During the interview, the player’s morality will be put to the test as the line between good and evil grows increasingly blurred.
Cannibal Tales is currently in development for PC on Steam.
Video Games
‘Vampire Survivors’ Receives “Laborratory” Update Ahead of ‘Operations Guns’ Next Week [Trailer]
Ahead of Contra arriving in Vampire Survivors with Operation Guns, developer Poncle has released a new free 1.10 update for the roguelike entitled the “Laborratory” update. The update adds new achievements for those of you who love that sort of thing, as well as a new character, new stages and new weapons.
“Since the early days of VS, people have been asking important questions like ‘Why is it called Santa Water?’,” reads the update. The Laborratory update aims to address that, introducing the Santa Ladonna character to Vampire Survivors, who starts out with nothing but a temporary cooldown bonus, and automatically triggers a Rosary when reaching critically low HP.
For weapons, you have the new Santa Javelin, which evolves into Seraphic Cry. Starting out, the Santa Javelin aims for random enemies, can critically hit and turn the Duration stat into additional Amount for itself. In order to evolve it into the Seaphic Cry, players will need a maxed out Clover. The evolution uses Luck to deal additional damage. Picking up Rosaries while it is equipped turns them into a quadruple screen clearing explosion that will turn enemies into XP gems.
In addition to the new patch, Poncle has dropped some progress updates on a couple of topics. Cross-saves are currently in beta branches on Steam, while progress on online co-op is going well, but it’s “still too early for more details”. The developer is also working on a new feature which will allow for new Adventures, which are standalone campaigns that were introduced in previous updates. “We had planned to make new Adventures more often, but then realized that while they work very well to isolate new DLC content, the base-game ones are missing something. So we’ve been working on adding a new feature to the game (that will remain a little secret for now) after which we’ll be back releasing new adventures.”
Meanwhile, Vampire Survivors:Operation Guns will launch May 9 across PC and consoles, and will head to the PlayStation version once it’s been released.
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