At the tail end of Playstation’s E3 media showcase where everyone on stream would have likely tuned out, there was another low-key announcement for a PS VR exclusive game named Déraciné. And it was by From Software.
From Software is now a household name for making Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but before that their bread and butter was Armored Core, the mecha action series. But before that, the Japanese developers have an eclectic mix of titles released, some of which are first-person adventure games on the original Playstation.
In a new Playstation Blog interview with studio head Hidetaka Miyazaki, he mentioned that the desire to make Déraciné came from vvarious reasons. One is to explore the series roots.As we were starting to wrap up Bloodborne and Dark Souls III we were obviously looking at what might come next, but at the same time we were looking at what we’d done in the past,” he said.
“We actually released a lot of adventure games prior to our more recent reputation for action titles. For example, we released one called Echo Night. ” Echo Night was an adventure game series played in the first person, before dual-analog controls were a thing. The first game involved a lot of picking up items, reliving past memories and a spooky ghost that haunts a certain floor in a boat.
Having that in mind, Déraciné certainly evokes the old From Soft games in a way.
Miyazaki also cited that the studio wanted to try out making a game in VR, and the need to do something different and something strange. “Maybe not all our newer fans will know this but once upon a time we used to put out very strange, quirky and unique games,” Miyazaki said on this. Case in point: one of the quirky titles From Soft has made is a game called The Adventures Of Cookie And Cream (or Kuri Kuri Mix), which used a similar control scheme and gimmick seen in Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons but predated it by 13 years.
Déraciné will offer fragmented stories for players to discover, explore and piece together themselves in a similar fashion the many fans of Dark Souls and Bloodborne have delved deep into its lore.
No word on a release date yet.