The Messenger

Informations générales

Date de sortie

30 août 2018

Plateformes

PC (Microsoft Windows) • PlayStation 4 • Xbox One • Nintendo Switch • PlayStation 5

Note IGDB

★★★★☆ (195 votes)

Genres

Platform • Adventure • Indie • Arcade

Thèmes

Action • Comedy

Développeur

Sabotage

Éditeur

Devolver Digital

Modes de jeu

Single player

Perspectives du joueur

Side view

Langues

Classifications d'âge

U.S. & CA

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Histoire

In a village of ninjas, an ancient prophecy foretells that a "Western Hero" will one day arrive to save them from the demons that plague the land. When the Demon King attacks, the promised hero appears and repels him, then entrusts a young ninja with a sacred scroll — naming him the Messenger and charging him to carry it east, to the top of a distant mountain. Aided along the way by a mysterious blue-robed shopkeeper, the Messenger sets out across a perilous world, his simple delivery gradually drawing him into a far greater struggle that spans centuries and bends time itself.

Résumé

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival.
Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story, that unravels into an epic time traveling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16-bit Metroidvania game packed with replay value and deadpan humor.