Grasshopper Manufacture, the company of wacky auteur Suda51, continues itspartnershipwith Digital Reality as they work on a new project namedBlack Knight Sword. A downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, the story follows a black knight who has teamed up with a sword spirit to take down a beautiful but evil princess. Seems pretty straightforward, until you remember that Grasshopper Manufacture is making it.
Black Knight Sword is a sidescroller framed as a play, with colorful graphics that look like cardboard cut-outs. Since Digital Reality is from Hungary, there’s some European art design in there too. FormerSilent Hillcomposer Akira Yamaoka seems to be in charge of the sound, so that’s always a treat.
The biggest shame is that this teaser shows less gameplay than the screenshots you can find below. Still, I’m liking how it looks. For the right price, I even think the game could be released at retail! But then again, it’s a sidescroller, and people refuse to pay any reasonable amount of money for one of those, no matter how well crafted it is.
