Back in 2012, Dean Dodrill created a little game called Dust: An Elysian Tail. This Metroid-Vania inspired, hand drawn, 2D hack-and-slash instantly captured the hearts of anyone that had the good fortune of seeing it in action. It was so good in fact, that Dean won the $40,000 grand prize in Microsoft's Dream-Build-Play competition.
Dust has already been released on Xbox Live, and on PC. In the coming months, however, PS4 owners will get their hands on the title as well. Fidget, one of the game's primary characters, described the release this way:
"Imagine a 2D side-scrolling platformer, with crazy-fast swordplay and screen-clearing MAGIC supplied by yours truly. There are power-ups! Special abilities! Hidden passages! A whole world of STUFF to find! Now, if you can, imagine all this awesomeness is hand-drawn like an old animated movie from the 80s and 90s, but with art at crazy high resomolutions! Like, 1080p! People tell me that's pretty darn good! Also, 60fps. I'm guessing that's some sort of speed? Like, the speed of awesome? I don't know much about these things, though. I mean, look at my hands! I'm not plugging anything into expensive TVs with these ham-hocks."
An official release date is yet to be known. Check out the original launch trailer and some screens below!
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Dust has already been released on Xbox Live, and on PC. In the coming months, however, PS4 owners will get their hands on the title as well. Fidget, one of the game's primary characters, described the release this way:
"Imagine a 2D side-scrolling platformer, with crazy-fast swordplay and screen-clearing MAGIC supplied by yours truly. There are power-ups! Special abilities! Hidden passages! A whole world of STUFF to find! Now, if you can, imagine all this awesomeness is hand-drawn like an old animated movie from the 80s and 90s, but with art at crazy high resomolutions! Like, 1080p! People tell me that's pretty darn good! Also, 60fps. I'm guessing that's some sort of speed? Like, the speed of awesome? I don't know much about these things, though. I mean, look at my hands! I'm not plugging anything into expensive TVs with these ham-hocks."
An official release date is yet to be known. Check out the original launch trailer and some screens below!
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