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Fantasy beat 'em up Absolom brings a roguelike's rinse and repeat formula to the arcade brawler
When you die in Absolom, you are literally reborn from the glowing womb of a giant pregnant lady. This is not how beat 'em ups normally go. The newly announced left-to-right puncher from the developers of Streets Of Rage 4 plans to inject a bunch of roguelike fungus into the bulging musculature of the classic arcade brawler, then dress it in a big fantasy frog suit that's been handcrafted by a traditional animation studio. It's a tight squeeze, but having played an hour of a preview build, it certainly looks the part. Although I order you never to use the term "rogue 'em up" to describe it, an explosively upsetting term publisher Dotemu has cheekily tried to invent. Read more
When you die in Absolom, you are literally reborn from the glowing womb of a giant pregnant lady. This is not how beat 'em ups normally go. The newly announced left-to-right puncher from the developers of Streets Of Rage 4 plans to inject a bunch of roguelike fungus into the bulging musculature of the classic arcade brawler, then dress it in a big fantasy frog suit that's been handcrafted by a traditional animation studio. It's a tight squeeze, but having played an hour of a preview build, it certainly looks the part. Although I order you never to use the term "rogue 'em up" to describe it, an explosively upsetting term publisher Dotemu has cheekily tried to invent.
