Blind Fate: Edo no Yami

The action platformer Blind Fate: Edo no Yami will explore what sci-fi Japan would look like in the Edo period, a few hundred years ago. Well, it wouldn’t be a very friendly country. Going here on a longed-for holiday would not only cost you a few salaries, but probably also your neck, as robotic versions of monsters from Japanese folklore wander among the neon-lit apartment buildings.

You yourself are not a completely normal person. You are a blind, cybernetically enhanced samurai murdering in the name of the Tokugawa shogunate. Blindness would normally be a huge weakness, but you have been given many systems, from projecting the surroundings directly into your mind to various sensors that will help you detect both the weaknesses of the enemy, but also possible inaccuracies in the projection.

You have outdated data and not everything you see is real. You can see a clear example of this lapaly in the video above, where a samurai seems to be running on a busy, multi-lane highway, but the cars and the road itself are clearly not real and you can run through them with ease.

It sounds like a very interesting concept, but the game itself sometimes looks very unfinished. In particular, the animations presented in the new shots from the game would need to be polished, but there is a warning at the bottom of the screen that these are shots from the pre-alpha version, something that is still a long way from the finished game. But it’s confusing, because according to Steam, its only platform, the game is due this year.

Perhaps the creators will be able to embellish Blind Fate: Edo no Yami in the best possible form and gameplay before sending the game to the waiting players, whether this happens this year, or maybe with some delay later.