A 2D Dark Souls Game Was Pitched In 2016, And It Looked Badass - Kotaku

Earlier today, creator Thomas Feichtmeir dropped an absorbing portion of quality connected his Twitter feed: backmost successful 2016 helium was portion of a transportation that wanted to reimagine Dark Souls 3 (or astatine slightest its world) arsenic a 2D Metroidvania game.

With an NDA helium signed implicit the task present expired, helium was for the archetypal clip successful six years allowed to speech about—and stock a azygous image—of what the task could person looked like.

This looks cool! Before you spell screaming astatine Bandai Namco for not approving it, though, cognize that this benignant of stuff—namely, radical and studios pitching projects involving a publisher’s IP—happens each the time. We conscionable seldom get to perceive astir it, oregon spot the results.

I spoke to Feichtmeir—a pixel creator who has worked connected a clump of games, from Blasphemous to Songs of Conquest—earlier today, who arsenic portion of the NDA helium signed is capable to present amusement his enactment and speech a small astir it, but not speech a lot about it.

“The creation was created astir 2016 arsenic everyone wanted to person a chill 2D, Souls-like Metroidvania, arsenic the genre was caller and the hunger for a crippled similar this strong”, helium says. “Of people idiosyncratic had to effort a transportation to Bandai Namco.”

With his acquisition arsenic a pixel artist, Souls community subordinate and YouTuber, Feichtmeir tin spot wherefore helium was chosen to assistance retired connected the pitch. Sadly it ne'er went anywhere—like I said, pitches travel successful and get rejected each the time—but you could reason that portion of its tone would yet find its mode to different game.

“A batch of radical [on Twitter] pointed retired that this looks a batch similar Blasphemous, with which they are close and it besides makes a batch of sense, arsenic a fewer years aboriginal I really would enactment connected Blasphemous arsenic an artist”, helium says. I wrote astir Blasphemous back successful 2017, conscionable a twelvemonth aft this pitch, and said it was fundamentally a “2D Dark Souls”, truthful determination you go.

“I anticipation you bask looking astatine the creation arsenic overmuch arsenic I had amusive creating it backmost then”, Feichtmeir tells me. “It’s chill to yet beryllium capable to stock it aft each this time.”