Quicker characters are balanced, in part, by scoring fewer points per orb drop. Instead of creating, say, a two- and three-point line like in basketball, Pyre changes the points scored depending on the orb carrier. Each player controls a team and uses button taps to switch between players. The object is to be the first team to score 100 points by picking up an orb and repeatedly dunking it into the pyre.īefore you start playing, it's best to spend time picking an ideal trio, because squad members affect everything in a match-even the points. Pyre is easiest to explain when broken up into two halves: a plot- and dialogue-filled quest, and a new twist on one-on-one arcade sports. The game revolves around a series of team battles that I've dubbed "battle lacrosse." Two teams of three appear on opposite ends of an arena, defending a goal, which is represented by a burning pyre. (You can see different shapes of auras, here, as well some characters leave a slithering trail of their aura when they hit the "dash" button, but this often comes at a cost of aura size.) Pyre is a departure from the top-down, world-roaming adventures of Supergiant's previous games Bastion and Transistor. It's definitely not a Zelda-like quest with gritty narration, but it does see Supergiant continuing its streak of taking an established genre and saying, "we're gonna build a helluva narrative and aesthetic world in there." Mutant league RPG Modern major-league games and soccer games like FIFA 17 have carried those traditions over, sporting enough card-slotting and story-driven career modes to make them a hat and a wizard robe away from being a full-blown adventure.īut what if a sports game went further with its RPG elements? What if it had a high-stakes, internal-drama story, where relationships between teammates-along with the winners and losers you confront along the way-affected everything from the storytelling to the number-crunching min-max possibilities? I invite the big dogs at EA Sports, 2K Games, and Sony San Diego to look at a tremendous example of that experiment: Pyre, out today from Supergiant Games. Decades ago, series like Sensible World of Soccer and Tony La Russa Baseball (on PC, not console) filled their career modes with lots of money- and roster-management menus. Role-playing games and sports video games have more in common than you think.
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