{"id":101168,"date":"2019-10-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/superepic_is_a_comical_metroidvania_where_you_destroy_evil_microtransactions"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:30:00","slug":"superepic-is-a-comical-metroidvania-where-you-destroy-evil-microtransactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/02\/superepic-is-a-comical-metroidvania-where-you-destroy-evil-microtransactions\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperEpic Is A Comical Metroidvania Where You Destroy Evil Microtransactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe8222b33edc8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe8222b33edc8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCP1eCnpeeo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Numskull Games has revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/superepic\"><strong>SuperEpic<\/strong><\/a>, a satirical Metroidvania-style game headed to Switch this December.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly a perfect fit for anyone who hates the not-so-lovely elements of modern video game development (yes, we&#8217;re talking about microtransactions), SuperEpic has players heading out on a quest to save games as we know them. You&#8217;ll be smashing your way through the headquarters of an evil game development company that controls society by addicting citizens to their free games.<\/p>\n<p>The humour doesn&#8217;t end with just that core idea, though, oh no. For starters, the protagonists of this story are a raccoon and a llama, and continuing the satirical theme on micro-transactions, all levelling and powering up in the game is based on a pretend, in-game economy system.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Features:<br \/><\/strong>&#8211; <strong>Two game modes<\/strong> \u2013 play a classic single-player story mode with handcrafted levels, or a roguelike mode which procedurally generates the game map to make each run completely different<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Cross-media experience<\/strong> \u2013 hidden QR codes launch mini-games to play on your mobile when scanned, uncovering secrets in the main game<br \/>&#8211; <strong>8 hours of gameplay<\/strong> \u2013 a first run on the story mode will take roughly 8 hours, but the procedural mode provides endless fun<br \/>&#8211; <strong>16-bit era graphics<\/strong> \u2013 super fluid animations and spectacular bosses, all represented in gorgeous \u2018Neo-Geo\u2019-esque 16-bit pixel art<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Original storyline &amp; soundtrack<\/strong> \u2013 a story featuring unique, strong characters with plenty of humour and personality, and a soundtrack from SonoTrigger (\u2018Rise &amp; Shine\u2019, \u2018Blue &amp; Bullets\u2019, \u2018Supermagical\u2019)<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Completionists<\/strong> \u2013 tons of achievements &amp; secrets to unlock for completionists<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Micro-transaction satire<\/strong> \u2013 satirises modern gaming practices, with a huge enterprise run by greedy business-pigs which has gradually replaced all the fun in video games with adaptative and addictive algorithms to control people\u2019s minds<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"01\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18c94d814c29f\/01.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18c94d814c29f\/01.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"01\"><\/a><a title=\"02\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5429fc7b9ecab\/02.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5429fc7b9ecab\/02.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"02\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"03\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a04b16657c9f\/03.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a04b16657c9f\/03.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"03\"><\/a><a title=\"04\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/15b545393f3b7\/04.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/15b545393f3b7\/04.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"04\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>As noted above, the game will be appearing on Switch and other platforms this December. Will you be keeping an eye out for more on this one? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCP1eCnpeeo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Numskull Games has revealed SuperEpic, a satirical Metroidvania-style game headed to Switch this December. Seemingly a perfect fit for anyone who hates the not-so-lovely elements of modern video game development (yes, we&#8217;re talking about microtransactions), SuperEpic has players heading out on a quest to save games as we know them. You&#8217;ll be smashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}