Kickstarter of Note: Sundered

Thunder Lotus Games, the makers of the critically acclaimed Jotun, have started a Kickstarter campaign for their next title: Sundered. It was fully funded in six hours, but there's plenty of time left to get in on it!

The studio describes Sundered as a 'Replayable Metroidvania'. They achieve this replayability by employing procedurally generated areas between set nodes, allowing for variety when moving from area to area. This retains the metroidvania formula of needing to unlock abilities to reach new areas while also giving each respawn, as the procedurally generated areas reshuffle each time Eshe, the game's protagonist, dies, a fresh and new feel.

To further increase the feeling of freshness of each respawn, Thunder Lotus have made the hordes of monsters dynamic a la Left 4 Dead; adjusting the spawns based on a variety of factors like time, difficulty and current region. 

Another key feature is the ability to enhance, or 'corrupt', your acquired abilities by sacrificing your humanity. What this specifically means is unclear, but seeing how the game is going to feature multiple endings (not to mention that the final boss is going to vary based on your level of corruption) we can safely say that it will greatly increase the replayability of the game.

Sundered will, like its predecessor, feature loads of hand-drawn art, displaying the studio's signature art style, creative characters and impressive vistas.

For more information about the project and the back rewards visit the Kickstarter page.