ChinaJoy 2019 has been showcasing a ton of new games. One of those is The Oriental Exorcist, which has received some gameplay.
The Oriental Exorcist is being developed by Chinese developer WildFireGame. Gematsu has some early details on the title.
The game is set in a fictitious, oriental world, that has been infused with demons. Players take on the role of a skilled exorcist who fights his way through a brutal world and gets involved in the “unforeseen entanglements of complex beings.”
The game has a gorgeous, hand-painted art style, and the animations are all hand-drawn. The game is very similar to the FromSoftware Souls genre as it has a stamina bar, health and similar deadly attacks from both you and enemies. The game also aims to tell important narratives through the side characters you meet along the way. The Oriental Exorcist takes place from a 2D perspective instead of a 3D one. It looks to share the most similarity in that aspect with Death’s Gambit, another 2D souls-like.
You can check out the latest trailer below, with some off-screen gameplay below that:
All of this news came during ChinaJoy 2019 which announced a ton of new titles, during PlayStation’s ChinaJoy 2019 Press Conference. The Oriental Exorcist was one of those titles. A number of titles were announced under the ChinaHeroProject banner which Sony run. One of those titles is AI-LIMIT, which showcased some new 3D Souls-like gameplay.
You can rewatch the PlayStation ChinaJoy 2019 Press conference on our page here. You can catch up on every announcement from that conference here, including a look at multiple China Hero Project titles.
The Oriental Exorcist arrives on PS4 in 2020.
What are your thoughts on the game? I am excited to see some more, as well as get some more details on the plot and narrative of the experience.
Source – [Gematsu]