The Secret of the Soulforce : Heroes of the Abyss

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Small announcement before letting you read the description.

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I leave the links just below, good discovery!

Kickstarter link : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heroesoftheabyss/heroes-of-the-abyss

Steam link : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005220/The_legend_of_the_soulforce__Heroes_o...

-SYNOPSIS-

The sun is gone, your world has been plunged into perpetual night by the god Asteros. You come to your senses in the middle of a battle to access the abyss. Access the abyss and thwart Asteros' plans so that daylight is restored.

You play as a group of adventurers made up of atypical characters with varying abilities.
Make your group grow over the meetings in order to increase your possibilities through overpowered united attacks.



- THE COMBAT MECANICS -

The Elements

Elemental effects

Among certain elementary effects find the burn, the sacred burn, the wet or frozen state, lots of elementary effects that can help you in combat or on the contrary handicap you.

In the system of elemental effects set up the elements and counter-elements cancel each other out.
For example, if an enemy has an active burning effect, playing a water or ice spell on him will cancel this state and replace him with a wet or frozen state.

Personalization of teams

Go on an adventure with a team that can include up to 6 characters simultaneously, offering you great possibilities for synergies and united attacks in battle.
All additional members will be in a reserve that you have access to outside of combat.
Trouble defeating a boss? Remember to change the composition of your active team!

Skill combinations

Skill combinations are based on the skills used by certain characters during their turns, allowing them to launch a different but more powerful skill than the one chosen initially if the right conditions are met.
For example if a character uses tornado and another fire, the skill will become a fire tornado.

Synchronized attacks

With the right characters on the team attacks uniting the strength of 2 or more characters becomes possible causing devastating effects.
These attacks represent the affinities between the characters, find them all !

The fury skill

Earn rage points with each hit received, when an ally falls in battle or in other special conditions! When a character reaches 100 rage points, he enters a state of fury, this can also happen directly when an ally falls in battle. The fury state causes several effects including that of unlocking special skills focused on extreme offensive power at the expense of defense. During the early access phase, the characters will benefit from a physical transformation representing an evil version of themselves during the fury phase.

Soulforce skills

Fill your soulforce bar as you fight! Soulforce-type skills allow you to harness a character's soul power to produce an ultimate attack. Each character has several soulforce skills of their own that can deliver powerfull protective skill or produce damage to enemy soul points as well as various effects to defeat powerful opponents otherwise unbeatable
ex: a dragon has 100,000 HP but 100 soul points it will be easier to defeat it by dropping its soul points to 0 rather than aiming for HP.


- THE CHARACTER BUILDING -

The archetype

Each character has its own archetype influencing the statistics obtained after each level up.
These stats are automatic and cannot be changed, accentuating the core mechanics of the character without greatly impacting if you decide to customize your character outside of its basic mechanics.

Elemental nature and skill tree

Each character has their own elemental nature, influencing the very nature of their abilities and the possible choices in their skill tree.
For example, a Water nature character will be more of a support character, while a Fire character is an offensive character.
Note, however, that although some characters have the same elemental nature as others, their skill trees and the way they are played remain unique.

Distribution of Stat Point

And finally there are the special statistics which particularly influence the fight such as precision, dodging, counter, the chances of making a critical hit. Each point will change the statistics little but once again allows you to direct your characters according to your wishes.

Weapons, armor and accessories

Each character will have a type of weapon that only they can equip with variants to reinforce either the base mechanic of the character or another that you choose.

Regarding the armor, it will be divided into three categories: light, medium and heavy, offering specific bonuses for each of these categories (more defense at the expense of the shield, more shield but little pv, etc.)
Any character can equip any armor and this in order to be able to embody the character of your dreams, who has never dreamed of playing a tank mage?
There are currently more than 450 armors, a hundred accessories and about 50 weapons per character! What to make the configuration of your dreams!


- EXPLORATION -

The World

Explore a vast continent in a semi-open world consisting of two main parts:
The human world and the abyss.
While the human world will be an opportunity to do pure exploration and complete some secondary objectives or go in search of other companions, the abyss will be where most of the main story takes place, this which does not prevent you from finding traveling companions!
Each of these two worlds is planned to be 20km2.

Multiple choice situation

Who hasn't dreamed of having an rpg where your decisions really matter? Here your decisions really matter and will impact the course of your adventure and how others perceive you in a more or less significant way depending on your choices, it could even allow you to access a city or shops normally closed to access!

The vehicles

Discover this world on foot, on horseback, by boat and even by dragon!

The secret Passages

The secret passages
Some passages will be blocked or hidden and only certain characters will allow the passage. For example, a rock obstructs the passage, the iron fist skill would destroy it and pass it.

The dungeon

Dungeons are spread all over the continent like so many other explorable places that range from ruins to dungeons or even hidden villages or magical forests.


- THE CHARACTERS -


There will be 15 characters in the game, some will be recruitable over the course of the adventure, others will have to be found and/or meet conditions for them to agree to join you.
Here are some of the main and secret characters.

The Main Characters

-Arthorus-




Arthorus, Ulya's brother, became part of Emperor Sigarme's personal guard thanks to his sister offering him directly to the Emperor, who accepted. Very quickly he understood that this was not what he was looking for, he preferred more flexibility and joined the guild of adventurers where he met Inar and Emilia, their group becoming known and called "the rampart".
He does everything to hide his seraphic power from ordinary mortals, even if it means hurting himself and losing duels voluntarily.


-Emilia-




Having grown up in the Ancestral Forest, she received instructions from the Elven Druids there to perfect her connection with nature and the elemental spirits to master sacred and Elven magic. Later she decided to venture into what she called "real life". She then began her adventurous career there as a healer before diversifying after joining the Temple of the Blazing Sun.


-Inar-




His ancestors fled the dwarf empire following a dishonor, a blade forged by them for the dwarf emperor broke in the middle of a fight causing his death. Some accused them of conspiracy and treason while others blamed fate. They preferred to leave the empire rather than live as outcasts and in shame, thus putting their talent at the service of the land of Ulgur. Their forge is now renowned in the surrounding areas to such an extent that the Nordics sometimes come to order from them.


-Ulya-




Sister of Arthurus and Captain of the Valkyries, one of Emperor Sigarme's elite units, always ready to do battle when it comes to the security of the empire. She began her life as a simple guard, over time and battles, she proved her abilities to everyone. Perfecting her handling of the spear to its maximum to compensate for her difference in power as a seraph with Arthorus. She is now renowned and called Lightning Spear, her speed is unmatched.



-Xorgrin-




Living from an early age in lands forgotten and abandoned by his parents, he learned to live alone in these desolate lands, reclusive like a hermit, he leaves very little of his temple, his way of life is to learn as much as possible on arcane magic, especially that of darkness which today allows him to use a little temporal magic allowing him to live much longer than a standard demon. Although he dreams of adventure beyond these desolate lands, he is comfortably installed and does not intend to take risks unless events force him to do so. Everyone in the Forgotten Lands is torn between fear and respect for him due to his incredible knowledge and power.

The secret Characters

-Urba-




Urba lives on the divine plateau where he preaches the word of the holy sun.
He has lived for several decades on the divine plateau to perfect his technique as a warrior monk in view of an event that could disturb the peace, however his order is only authorized to intervene if the cursed lands were to pose a problem.


-Nyanka-





Nyanka lives in a hidden village, very difficult to find, intruders generally do not leave this village where the assassins are trained with techniques as subtle as they are effective. Still young (in Kyan age) she aspires to a life of peace although her people are framed by the empire in order to become living weapons, she hopes that one day she will be able to get rid of this yoke and start a family there. safe from the dangers of the world.


-Adekin-




Former Captain of the guard of what are now called the cursed lands (ex kingdom of demons), he rebelled against his king when he lost his head and decided that only demons should reign supreme over the continents together thus breaking a peace that had been established for generations. Rather than eliminate him, the demon king preferred to cast a curse on him, transforming him into an obedient living dead. After the death of the demon king, over time he managed to regain his full consciousness and since then has been training and living alone in these desolate lands.