No Rest for the Wicked dev explains that its ARPG is - and isn't - like Dark Souls by giving players the "crazy" moves usually reserved for Soulslike bosses
Now you can do all these crazy moves
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No Rest for the Wicked- a new action RPG from the studio behind Ori and the Blind Forest - both is and isn’t like Dark Souls, according to one developer.
That partly manifests in No Rest for the Wicked with a top-down camera angle, which fundamentally changes how you approach the game since, you know, an entire hand appendage is now free. “Your right thumb is always busy rotating the camera [in Souls games] and trying to frame the action, whereas we can craft the camera algorithm to really perfectly frame everything,” Mahler explains.
“Now you can do all these crazy moves, where you can dash backwards or forwards,” he continues, likening the player’s Wicked movesets to that of typical Souls bosses. “In Souls, you fight bosses like Artorias who have these really cool moves, but you as a player …
