Ratalaika has announced the release date for Within the Blade, its stealth action platfomer game for Playstation, Xbox and Switch. It will launch on July 16th, after its successful launch on PC earlier.
Ratalaika stated
“WTB has many distinguishing and unique features with its simplistic presentation offering detailed pixel art animations, ninjas galore fighting to their death, crafting of weapons and a whole lot more to present an ongoing challenge that will please and entice even the best of players. Importantly elements such as random level generation, crafting, skill trees are all part of a great mixture of ideas and interesting implementation.”
Within the Blade is an action platformer with stealth elements as well as RPG elements for players to enjoy. The game sees a Japanese Daime named Mamoru Imai summons demons to join his army, only for darkness to take over his body and demons begin wreaking havoc in the country. Within the Blade features a central hub village where the player can take a break, craft, trade, inventory management, learn new skills and get new task from Sensei.
The game has 5 acts with each act including 5 levels, and along with the player’s main objective, of surviving, fighting and progression – each level has additional tasks, completing them the player receives additional experience and money.
Source: Ratalaika PR