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BEAST

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE

2024

DEVELOPER

False Prophet

PUBLISHER

False Prophet

LINK

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When I first embraced my inner-demon in medieval tactical RPG Beast, I was not expecting to become a kind of satanic, horned Wolverine, ripping enemies to shreds with razor-sharp claws. My foes were equally surprised, as blood spurted out of their veins with comic book exaggeration. As I dashed around the gridless map, the miserable setting – a dimly-lit village ravaged by plague and war – and grim violence was undercut by my character's howls and barks. “Woof woof woof!” I yelled as I cut down another soldier.

Despite the laughs elicited by the barking protagonist – a war veteran returning home after a decade of Ottoman slavery – is a deliberately miserable game. Anti-hero Anton is a gloomy, scarred and vengeful lad,

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