Earlier yesterday, the official Twitter account announced alongside a promotional video that a fourth free update will be coming to Little Noah: Scion of Paradise in early 2023. The video showed off the Cygames director of the title, Hiroki Matsuura joined by Grounding director Kengo Shibata playing the game and explaining the many nuances found in their rogue-like title.
▍Little Noah: Scion of Paradise Director Let’s Play and Announcements
▍New Playable Zipper and More Challenges to Overcome
At the tail end of the 30-minute video, the two directors revealed that a fourth update is in the works and that they are planning for an early 2023 release. Though no concrete dates were mentioned, the directors showed off that Zipper the magical feline would be added to the game as an alternate playable character alongside new difficulty settings for those who seek a more hardcore experience.
Though the announcement didn’t elaborate further on Zipper’s powers as a playable character, the clips that were shown seemed to preview what players can expect out of the talking cat that accompanied Noah in her adventures.
He appears to have a triple jump that allows him to stay airborne much longer than Noah can while being able to reposition himself during anima casts. He appears to also begin a run with a lower health pool of 75 HP, likely a tradeoff for his mobility compared to Noah.
Though we won’t be able to see Zipper transform into different colored avatar forms, he still does seem to have an Anima Burst equivalent move that allows him to continuously perform the Aether Thrust move while being invulnerable himself!
An additional VERY HARD mode is mentioned. As the game currently only has a (slightly lenient) HARD mode and a one-hit-death HELL mode in place, the newer difficulty is probably aiming to serve as an in-between for the two modes.
Alongside this, the announcement revealed that the booster effects from your airship can be controlled together with the kinds of Lilliputs and accessories you pick up in each run. The video did not go any further to explain to what extent players can alter difficulty as of now. For all we know, the feature could be used to help new players or alternatively allow further limiting of resources for more substantial challenges players can play.
▍About Little Noah: Scion of Paradise
Little Noah: Scion of Paradise takes players on a dungeon-crawling journey as Noah, a self-proclaimed alchemist, crashes her airship onto a mysterious floating ruin. In need of repairs for her ship and driven by curiosity, she enters the ruins ready to take on foes armed with her powers to call upon magical creatures called Lilliputs. Join Noah as she ventures deep into the ancient ruins happening upon treasures, an amnesiac cat, and unraveling the mysteries within the ruins.
Banging out a 94% Positive Review score on Steam as of this writing, the title has been well received by fans with the simplistic yet addictive rogue-like dungeon-crawler gameplay that leaves room for player creativity with its unique combo-building system!
Little Noah: Scion of Paradise is available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam.
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