The Messenger
The Messenger is a Platform / Adventure game released on August 30, 2018 for PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 and 2 more. 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 ingredi…
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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.
Storyline
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.
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Game Info
- Developer
- Sabotage
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Engine
- Unity
- Game Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Action Comedy
Languages
- Audio / Voice
- English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
- Text / Subtitles
- Chinese (Traditional), German, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Japanese, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, English, English, French, French, German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Russian, Portuguese (Portugal)
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