What is it?
HellCry will be the next game I’ll make, it’ll be the game I thought I would have made as my first game since I grew up with games like DOOM, Quake, Blood, Outlaws and Dark Forces. HellCry is the name of the institute that the protagonist takes over and becomes their Vampyre Hunter.
Story?
HellCry will take place in 1895, 3 years after the attack on Whitby, you take on the role of Paul Hellcry, a former Royal Engineer turned journalist and the heir to the HellCry Institute whom is called to find his father and fiancé after they went missing whilst investigating reports of occult activity at Poenari Castle in the Carpathian Mountains. But its only the start as the Cult of the Dragon unleash not one Vampyre but 3 who quickly spread to 3 points in the World.
Gameplay?
In the game you arrive armed only with your old service issued Adams Revolver, you wander around Transylvania investigating a village just outside Bistrița, it won’t be long though when everything gets out of hand where you have to escape from the chaos on your father’s train.
From then on you return to the HellCry Institute, from this point you’ll be able to acquire different weapons from the basics, crossbow, fully automatic crossbows, firearms with blessed rounds and of course a silver sword cane. With certain weapons you’ll be able to dual weld them for example you’ll find your father’s Scofield which uses stronger bullets and use it at the same time as your Adams Revolver. It’ll play like a classic boomer shooter but with hints of Immersive Sim mechanics.
But to win the game you need to hunt down and destroy the Head Vampyres.
Levels?
Well there will be roughly 3 main levels but you’ll gradually have outbreak zones where you can go and tidy up 😉 but the core levels will be New Orleans, London and of course that village in Transylvania.
Style?
Since this will be a NeoNoir Game, it’ll keep to the ps1 style but its theme will be alot like Hammer Horror with hints of Gloomwood , Bloodborne and Thief. It’ll have elements of Steampunk and some nods to certain franchises which I won’t say but I’ll give one hint to one even though I did mention another before. But lets just say Paul takes enthusiastic walks.
When is it coming out?
It’s a long way away, but after Z.FG is finished this will be the first game I’ll be focusing on because Z is a slow paced game, this will be fast paced action packed game. Like I really do want to work on this but its not the right time yet and want to get my first game done first before we can go crazy and make one of the best vampire games we could ever play.