This is one of those games that’s unfortunately way too easy to miss. A friend of mine shot me a message a few weeks ago asking if I wanted to check out some music he wrote for a game called Soulcaster, an indie game that was released on the XBLA Indie Games service in March. I checked out his music, and liked it a whole lot, and was determined to learn more about the game. Upon playing it, what I found was an amazingly well thought-out and awesomely retro gaming experience that I later learned was programmed, composed, and graphically rendered by this one friend, Ian Stocker.
So, what is Soulcaster? Think of it as a cross between Gauntlet and a tower defense game. Yes, this concept sound vaguely familiar to you, as we just ran a news item this week about Ancient Corp.’s Protect Me Knight which will feature the very same blending of genres along with music by Yuzo Koshiro. The graphics, music, and gameplay are all intensely retro and also incredibly addicting, and hey, the price is right as well!
But I’m getting ahead of myself, as usual, so hit the jump for our review of Soulcaster! (more…)
