The whole premise of Nidhogg is you are facing another opponent and you each have a side of the screen you are running towards. This follow up entry adds quite a bit to the already established formula while still keeping that same great competitive spirit that the original had. However the game didn’t have a lot of depth to it and so Messhof started work on the sequel Nidhogg 2.
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The original Nidhogg game from indie developer Messhof came to PS4 a few years back and offered plenty of fun for fans of local multiplayer games. After playing this version it is pretty much identical so I have left the original review unchanged but added a small new section at the bottom detailing the differences.
"We want to go as wide as possible," Essen tells me.*Editor’s Note: I reviewed Nidhogg 2 last year when it launched on PS4.
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Nidhogg 2 is currently coming to PlayStation 4 and PC sometime this year, but Essen says the team is open to other platforms. The entire game is the original blown up, but the visual style and expanded levels give Nidhogg 2 its own identity.
We want through a few iterations of art styles and it just didn't feel right to have super-barbarians going at it."Įssen also promises twelve music tracks from various artists for Nidhogg 2's soundtrack. When we first started out, we made more realistic versions. He had this real goofy Ren and Stimpy/Earthworm Jim kind of vibe. "I found on Twitter and I really liked his work. "I didn't want anything super-serious," says Essen when I ask about the new visual look. The basic Nidhogg warrior looks like a naked, sexless, wacked out Homer Simpson, but the PAX demo had alternate characters as well.
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Essen tells me the change allows the team to create multiple characters, while still sharing animations. The characters are made of multiple sprites, instead of the single sprites for the first game.
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The levels are longer in either direction and are full of alternate routes, like tunnels and homes. There's a new version of the Castle stage and I also had a chance to play a swamp level. While the first Nidhogg had spartan, single-color pixel art, the sequel has expressive characters and detailed backgrounds. One change that jumps out at you immediately is the change in art style, care of new Art Lead Toby Dixon. These weapons had a lot of variations too." Weapons, you could throw low, but that just didn't work. We had a battle axe that could cut through any other weapon. "We had a few different weapons that we ended up scrapping. We'll have four weapons and ten levels at launch and hopefully more later," says Essen, confirming to me that the team hopes to have post-launch content for Nidhogg 2. The first game had four levels and one weapon.
"There's a lot more level and weapon variety. You can also viciously stomp on a downed foe for a weaponless kill! The weapons cycle through as your die, so there's a certain amount of strategy in dying to get a preferred weapon. There are more weapons this time around: the classic Nidhogg fencing epee is joined by a wicked sword, a dagger, and a bow. Nidhogg's combat remains mostly the same in the sequel, so if you've played the original you'll feel right at home. We didn't want it to feel like a better version of Nidhogg, we want it to feel like a different version of Nidhogg. "Part it was I just wanted to try a different style for the fun of it. "We wanted to change a variety of things in the game," explains Messhof co-founder Mark Essen.
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