The Advanced Media Network (more specifially the Revolution page) has put up an alleged response from Developer NIBRIS's Piotr Orlowski to last month's announced title Sadness via email. NIBRIS, who are also at work on another title for the Revolution, hasn't said much beyond a vague promise of releasing some screenshots by the end of April. Piotr apparently was more than willing to spill some beans on behalf of the company. Choice excerpts from his email include:
“All I can say now is that it [Sadness] is going to be a gothic
horror which will scare not with the amount of blood but sheer atmosphere. Imagine a game in which you do not use guns
or knives but you will have to protect yourself with the objects you find exploring the ground – a stone, a
stick, etc.”
Well then, destroying specters with a well-thrown stone or lunging at them
visciously with a sharpened stick doesn't exactly sound too appealing. While the emphasis on mood rather than gallons
of blood has us intrigued, such stone-and-stick combat mechanics more than likely won't send the copies flying off the
shelf. Piotr also had some things to say in regards to using the Revolution's remote:
“Some examples of using the controller – you swing a torch with it to scare the rats off, you slit the throat (controller as a piece of glass of a knife); if you want to climb the wall you will have to hook a rope over the piece of a wall sticking out (controller serving as a lasso). And this is only the beginning. The game will be for single player and single player only. For an adult player with strong nerves. Let me mention that the scenario will have associations with narcolepsy, nyctophobia and paranoid schizophrenia. The scenario will surprise you.”
