The Blood of Dawnwalker will sway fans of freedom-loving dark RPGs. „We're trying to maximize your options of your choice”
The Blood of Dawnwalker will allow us to kill „many” NPCs, including those crucial to the plot. This will lead to alternative situations or even break entire quest lines.
The creative director of The Blood of Dawnwalker, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, recently spoke with GamesRadar+, where he revealed, among other things, the planned length of the game. However, this is not the only interesting information we received, as the developer admitted that the game will not overly limit us in terms of killing NPCs.
It's a sandbox, meaning we're trying to maximize your options of your choice in the game.
The Blood of Dawnwalker will allow to kill "many" NPCs
The devs have described their game as a narrative sandbox since the first announcement. They don't hide their approach to storytelling, as due to previous projects (The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077) they are very experienced in this regard. However, they don't intend to cut back on freedom, which, although not unlimited, should still be quite substantial.
It's not exactly endless possibilities, because obviously we have a set character you're playing with Coen, and he has his own personality and so on, but within this personality we're trying to give you the ability to shape your own Coen. For example, we allow you to kill off a lot of NPCs, and a lot of them can be really important NPCS.
The key word here seems to be "a lot of," as it suggests that there will be characters in the game that are impossible to kill. It wasn't specified whether it referred to unrestricted elimination or only at specific moments in the story. Nonetheless, the Rebel Wolves studio has decided to take an ambitious step, which requires a lot of work, as many potential scenarios, dependent on the players' actions, need to be taken into account.
Sometimes this can lead to alternate outcomes or even cut off certain quest lines. And this, of course, ties into our other systems [...] you being a Dawnwalker means that you have this blood hunger during the night time, so this can actually lead to these NPCs dying if you're not careful.
Before we see what it looks like in practice, we will have to wait a bit longer. The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't have a release date yet, but we will see new gameplay fragments in the summer. The game is heading to PC, PS5, and XSX/S.
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