Greenlight Highlight | Arauco Saga

Title: Arauco Saga
Developer: Solid Games
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What type of game is it?

Action RPG Adventure

What’s the 30 second elevator pitch?

You play as a hero sent to explore the vast worlds to find seven sacred tokens to save the world, the game combines the features of RPGs with those of the open-world adventure genre. A splicing of early Zelda with the Secret of Mana.

What do we like most about it?

The screen dominating bosses are absolutely brilliant, I can’t remember the last time I had a battle across the span of a dragon’s back as it was mid-flight, maybe because I haven’t actually done that yet.

I name dropped Secret of Mana and Zelda (specifically I was referring to the first title, and my favourite – Link to the Past) and I do that with absolutely no shame, as the title made me wax nostalgic on those with its camera viewpoint and even the way the character seems to stand a little too tall for the world they’re in.

All of that is combined with a combat viewpoint reminiscent of the tight action moments of Shining Force (Or Pokemon, for those a little younger) in a turn based battle. It’s frankly really interesting…

Oh, and the inventory system as well, with the amulents and the armour slots, mounts & pets and…

Anyway, just watch the video, if you were active in the NES/SNES era you will likely share my enthusiasm.

When’s it due?

Arauco Saga is due out in Q3 this year for PC, Mac & Linux.