O shooter bullet hell visto de cima Black Beacon Hill destila a jogabilidade em sua essência pura. Os jogadores controlam ataques, movimentos e ações pré-programados apenas com o mira do mouse, sem precisar de botões. Cada fase combina esse loop minimalista com trilha sonora original de Chris Jay.
Fantasmas, veteranos de guerra contratados pela alta câmara, navegam pelo poder em declínio de Ulstania em meio a desafiantes do senado, agitação policial e uma guerra travada contra Kostakovia. Uma visual novel se desenrola entre as fases, sugerindo armas cibernéticas rogue e o colapso inevitável. Fãs de ação indie que buscam precisão no mira em meio ao caos automatizado vão encontrar seu ritmo aqui.
Gameplay:
- Black Beacon Hill is a top-down bullet hell shooter with a unique and extremely minimalistic core mechanic: All player attacks, movements, and actions are pre-scripted automatically launched. Players only control the aim of these actions. Which means:
- There are zero buttons to press, and no controls besides mouse movement.
And it looks like this:
- Each stage contains it's own piece of original soundtrack. Composed by Chris Jay.
Story:
- [The high chamber] finds itself in a precarious position. Domestically, challengers against it's iron grip over Ulstania had begin to rear their heads from the senate and the civil police force. Beyond its borders, the long war it instigated against Kostakovia had become an unwinnable slugfest yielding only scortched earth at the cost of countless Ulstanian lives. Meanwhile, the sudden loss of communication with the front and whispers of a rogue cyberweapon herald a greater crisis on the horizon...
- Caught in the middle are the [Phantoms] - Hired operators of the high chamber. The few surviving veterans of the war with nowhere else to go. Making a living off doing the dirty work of their employers. Trying to ignore the open secret that, one way or another, this arrangement will not last...
- An originally written visual novel that plays out in between and within each stage.
Future Arcs:
- TBA
