No-holds-barred dystopia centered around the religious suppression of knowledge? Warped little surrealist beasties? Inspiration citing “Vonnegut, Bradbury, Eco, Huxley and the surreal art of Hieronymus Bosch”?
Check out the trailer below for newly-unveiled action RPG Quote from London-based developer Vindit:
Vindit describes the plot of Quote as follows:
“Bliss, god of ignorance, has eradicated all wisdom and learning from the land, claiming this will save it from chaos - but now knowledge is returning…
As Novella, priestess of Bliss, you must purify the world of knowledge. Bludgeon the thoughts from the heretics' heads, burn every book, kill every author. It’s the only way to save the world from itself.
You’re not alone. Your mysterious avian sidekick, Tatters, is here to help. The bizarre bird-man has an insatiable hunger for the blasphemous, so feed it well and your powers will grow.
Brawl your way across a beautiful but ravaged world, finding quotes, destroying books and bludgeoning the wise in Bliss’s name. But can the written word truly be destroyed?”
The game’s spoken narrative is written by Alec Meer and Dan Griliopoulous (No Man’s Sky, Rock Paper Shotgun) with seven hand-drawn chapters based around a ruined former culture. The game features “over 20 unlockable powers” that let you “brawl and sneak your way across a corrupted world.”
Interested? Quote comes out for Steam early access late this year, with a full release scheduled for 2017.
