{"id":133170,"date":"2023-04-17T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-148096"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:45:00","slug":"video-the-completionist-talks-to-us-about-his-upcoming-roguelike-game-elsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/17\/video-the-completionist-talks-to-us-about-his-upcoming-roguelike-game-elsie\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Completionist Talks To Us About His Upcoming Roguelike Game, Elsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac8cc5632d85e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac8cc5632d85e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ac8cc5632d85e\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"OkHbkuKK9qg\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We have known about Playtonic Friends&#8217; runnin&#8217; and gunnin&#8217; roguelike, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/elsie\">Elsie<\/a>, for a little while now (since around June 2022, if we&#8217;re being specific), but did you know that the game is being worked on Jirard &#8220;The Completionist&#8221; Khalil?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the YouTuber who just last month bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/03\/random-youtuber-spends-nearly-usd23k-buying-every-3ds-and-wii-u-eshop-game\">every 3DS and Wii U eShop game<\/a> is now working with the development team at Knight Shift Games as an executive producer to bring this neon-drenched title to Switch later on this year.<\/p>\n<p>One of our wonderful video producers, Zion, got a chance to chat with Jirard and two of the game&#8217;s developers, Alex Remior and Pedro Guerra, about Elsie at this year&#8217;s PAX East. In the full conversation (which you can check out above), we heard what that game is all about, how it has drawn inspiration from titles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/mega_man_x\">Mega Man X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dead_cells\">Dead Cells<\/a>, and how the team went about balancing difficulty in the tough roguelike genre.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is accompanied by some exclusive gameplay footage and you can even hear some of the in-game music playing in the background. You can find our complete interviews with Jirard, Alex and Paul in the video at the top of this article.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:146703 @ 2023-04-17T23:50:37+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of Elsie so far? Blast your thoughts in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We have known about Playtonic Friends&#8217; runnin&#8217; and gunnin&#8217; roguelike, Elsie, for a little while now (since around June 2022, if we&#8217;re being specific), but did you know that the game is being worked on Jirard &#8220;The Completionist&#8221; Khalil? Yes, the YouTuber who just last month bought every [&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-133170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133170","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=133170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}