Looking for more spoopy games to add to your Halloween To-Beat list? Look no further than Nightmare Boy, an action-adventure platformer with a retro feel and 90’s arcade visuals, the main strong points from Madrid dev’s own Metroidvania.
The Vanir Project developers are putting the final touches on its first creation, Nightmare Boy, for release later this month. Join Billy, turned into the mysterious Rolok, and fight to wake up from your worst dream: a world of nightmare made up by your fears and the worst dreams from another ten kids, also trapped in that world.
Fight all kind of enemies, recover Billy’s original appearance and rescue the ten kids lost in their own nightamres; each one of them will give you new powers and will help you unveil different endings for the game.
Main Features:
- Classic mechanics and playability that joins roaming, adventure and platforms.
- Upgradeable character after defeating each final boss: double and triple jump, different magic attacks…
- Graphic engine that mixes pixel art and cartoon characters, hand drawn, giving the game a 90’s arcade feeling.
- Saving system based on collected jewels in the game. The more you save, the more expensive it gets.
- Dark atmosphere, shady storyline; can you discover what lies beneath?
Nightmare Boy mixes pixel art and cartoon visuals, has complex Metroidvania game mechanics, big environments full of secrets, enemies and final bosses. Also, it hides a dark story beneath the surface and the player will be the one unveiling it.
Nightmare Boy will be available in digital format for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (via Steam) on October 25th.
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Zombies and vamps, rejoice! October is neigh upon us and we are kicking off this spook-tacular month with a ton of content to get you in the SPIRIT of Halloween here at Sub Cultured!
Join us every day for our Countdown to Halloween with ideas and activities to make your blood boil! We will be featuring tons of content that focus on the holiday, from living vicariously through those attending New York Comic-Con, more on Hispanic Heritage Month, our favorite Halloween Costumes From Your Closet, Instagram challenges to test your full sensory intake of everything supernatural, and an all-new segment called “Netflix and Chilling,” where we experience the best horror movies in each different sub genre that you can stream from your dark, evil lair. Or living room, whichever.
Check back throughout the month of October for more! You can also follow our terrifying shenanigans on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with the hashtag #SCareMonth. Get it? SCare? Because Sub Cultured?
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Last month, metal band Veil of Maya grabbed a new singer and fictional female inspiration for their recent album, Matriarch.
Arguably among top ten best metal albums of 2015, no one member in Veil of Maya’s roster is overshadowed in this new direction. This time around, the entire band’s talent is showcased more evenly than in previous albums. Graduating from six string baritones to sevenS and upping the ante with recently acquired vocalist Lukas Magyar, Veil of Maya’s Matriarch delivers a little little less flash while still holding on to the thrashy-ness that fans have grown to love.
Though Magyar’s high screams, low growls, and clear vibrato are brought to the table on a glorious china plate encased in a catchy melody sandwich, the introduction of the first clean vocals since the band’s inception isn’t the most notable change from previous vocalist Brandon Butler, who left the band during Matriarch’s inception due to “creative differences.”
While Veil of Maya has always included little easter eggs in their track titles, such as the Game of Thrones headnod “Winter Is Coming Soon” from their 2012 album Eclipse, Martiarch goes further by being their first album to follow a female inspired theme. Guitarist Marc Okubo fit the album’s concept around strong female characters from different fictional genres.
“All the tracks are named after powerful female characters that I found interesting,” he explains. “I always make code names for whatever songs I’m writing, and this time they all stuck to a theme.”
Fans will recognize some of their favorite characters as title tracks scattered throughout the album, from Final Fantasy VII‘s “Aeris,” to the mother of dragons, “Daenerys” from Game of Thrones, and even a few lesser known fandoms, such as “Lucy”and her split personality “Nyu” from Elfen Lied. As a huge fan of Brian K. Vaughan, Okubo’s “Three-Fifty” pays homage to Y: The Last Man‘s Agent 355, and he is currently reading the immensely popular Saga. Cue me on the edge of my seat waiting to hear Okubo riff some justice to the character Alana.
Although Okubo wrote the album to fit into his theme, new vocalist Lukas Magyar penned the lyrics separately and has only within recent months acquired the Internet to catch up on shows like Attack on Titan, with Matriarch‘s single named after the female protagonist, “Mikasa.” Watch the official video from Sumerian Records below, and be prepared for the tasty chorus to get stuck in your head for weeks. Sorry not sorry.
Matriarch also features less of the band’s old signatures, choosing instead to limit the vocals and blast beats to more appropriate timing. When used more sparingly, this enables the songwriting to effectively place pieces to create a better dynamic, rather than barrage the ears with consistent noodling. Though this is outside of the box for Veil of Maya, the execution is effortless as usual and there’s no doubt the album is a sleeper. There’s a song for every fandom, and obviously “Daenerys” is the best, because I’m 100% biased.
Veil of Maya’s Matriarch can be purchased here and tickets for the Summer Slaughter tour are on sale now at TicketFly. If you attend the Dallas date, don’t be surprised by the small, dark-haired gal bopping around. Just wave.
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