During Summer Game Fest today, Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree was announced from Bandai Namco. It’s a new roguelike game made by developer Brownies that looks reminiscent of Hades, but derived instead from Eastern mysticism.
It’s hard to piece together much about Towa just from the trailer, but from what we can tell it’s a roguelike similar to Hades with a top-down view, action combat, and the ability to choose upgrades at certain junctures.
Towa appears to feature a cast of multiple characters to choose from who are all working together to fight some sort of demon bent on destroying the world, and you seem to be able to have multiple at once in the field fighting enemies. All the characters and the aesthetics of the world they inhabit are heavily steeped in classic Japanese art, and among the cast is what appears to be, delightfully, a giant shiba and a large talking koi.
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