Hi guys!
I'm Luca Papale, press agent for Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague. I stumbled upon your forum and I tought I might answer some of your questions and comment your thoughts about the game.
Let's start! First of all, here's the press release containing some essential infos about the game:
Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague, scheduled for release on November 2012, is made up of four video games inspired by the historical figure and the protagonist as well of the famous series of novels written by Valerio Evangelisti, which have been published in all Europe. Playing as the merciless inquisitor, we will be called to investigate on a missing fellow brother in a remote hamlet, filled with dark, disturbing misteries and a deadly plague.
Set up in the southern France of the XIV century, this graphic adventure will lead us among heretics and human derelicts, riddles and schemes, demons and dangers of all sorts to which we will be able to survive only thanks to our wits and Eymerich’s soul of steel.
Diamond point of the Italian indie gaming, Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague is a high-flyng project that took three years of work of a team made up by Italian veteran developers. As any self-respecting graphic adventure, this game will have a strong narration, well-portrayed, multifaceted characters, around four hours of longevity per episode, particular mixed 2D-3D graphics, state-of-the-art 3D music and sounds, and mind-blowing puzzles. And whoever would like to enjoy the story without the obstacle of the puzzles, will be able to simply choose the Interactive Novel mode, in which they will be automatically solved, to meet the needs of those who have a preference for a less demanding play experience.
The game will be dubbed in Italian, English and… Latin! That’s right: Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague is the first video game in history fully dubbed in Latin – an experiment in a class by itself, that required an exhaustive philological research. Other than the already mentioned languages, the game will also have German and Frenchs subs. There will be an “audio game” mode for the blind too, that will literally allow to play with eyes shut.
Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague will be available for PC, Mac and iOS, and later for Android. The iPad3 version will be HD and will have specifically made extra polished graphics.
The first season will be made up of four episodes: The Inquisitor; The Village; The Demon; The Abbey. A deluxe edition, containing them all, is scheduled for 2013.
And now, I will answer to some of your posts.
The premise looks interesting and I like that the characters will speak latin(yes, the game will have subtitles!), quite the clever way to avoid shitty voice localization in english
Rest assured: the english localization was made by Disc2Disc with great cure and attention in details.
Here you can listen some english dialogues. They seem pretty good to me, and I personally prefer the english dubbing over the italian one. Please give us feedback, it's appreciated - even criticism!
Specially being that it seems this game has been in development for over 6 years
As stated in the press release, the development actually took 3 years. Why so long? Well, if you guys are interested in some backstage about the developing of the game, please read
this blog entry and
this one too. They also explain why we chose this kind of graphics.
One thing I didn't understand from the website is if this is episodic or not. They say that this is "the first volume in a saga"(implying that they plan sequels) and then say that the game is divided in 4 acts.
Let's put it this way.
"Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor" is the name of what we hope it will become a series of games, a franchise. "The Plague" it's the subtitle (just like, for example "Silent Hill: Downpour" or "Fallout: New Vegas").
"The Plague" is, in turn, divided into 4 acts. They will be released separately, and then all togheter in a deluxe edition, but they are all part of the same game.
So, "The Plague" is the first title of a series; "The Inquisitor", "The Village", "The Demon" and "The Abbey" are its chapters. I hope this clarifies the matter!
And they will obviously tone down some of the violence and edgyness in order to make this marketable.
Well, it won't be violent like a Mortal Kombat or a Manhunt. It's not an action game, it's a grapich adventure. BUT I can tell you that some parts of the game will be border on splatter.
I can't tell you any details about the plot for now, except that it will be cool. We aim to satisfy Evangelisti's fans, recreating the atmospheres of his books, but also to reach a wider audience.
If you have any other question, please feel free to send an email to
info@eymerich.it. I cannot guarantee my presence here on the forum, but I will try and partecipate to the discussion.
This summer heat is making my mind a little fuzzy...
