CamHostage
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I'm sharing this because it's new, but also... frankly, because I'm confused what the f*** is going on here?
Acquire is a veteran studio who have produced most famously the Tenchu franchise (also the similar Shinobido game, plus Way of the Samurai) and more recently made the Akiba's Trip games as well as co-developed with Square Octopath Traveler. The studio has this "new" game called Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief coming out this Fall for PC, Switch & PS4 (published in English-speaking parts of the world by NIS) that you can check out in the trailer. Not to be confused with Katana Kami (which was a recent top-down samurai action game, sort of a lo-fi spin-off/continuation of Way of the Samurai.)
Kamiwaza is a remake/remastering of a 2006 PS2 Japan-only game, where you are a thief and robber in open environments who can smash things to take them as well as rob people. A girl in the village is sick, and so you steal things to help her get better, trying all the while not to get caught yourself. The more you steal, the bigger your bag gets; if you are careful and picky, you can walk about town without arousing suspicions, but if you are greedy in grabbing everything not nailed down, your bag becomes huge and everybody knows you've got the loot. There are elements of stealth, something of an RPG'ish Reputation system, and then what I'd hesitate to call a "combat system" where you attack people to take things they are carrying, and all of it goes into your thief bindle.
It seems interesting in concept, although the trailer makes it look painfully clumsy to me (it also looks like something I don't like to look at...) This Youtuber is a fan and gets into what's actually likeable about the original version of this game.
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