In Moonlighter, You're an Adventurous Shopkeeper

One of dem promising upcoming games of 2018, once again, an indie game. "Not all shopkeepers wear capes" would be the most fitting saying for this game, because in this gorgeous pixel art fantasy world of Moonlighter, you take the role of--not a hero who become a shopkeeper, but a shopkeeper who become a hero. 

From a "young but experienced" developer Digital Sun, published by 11 bit studios, the developer behind This War of Mine and the highly anticipated Frostpunk, action-RPG with rogue-lite elements Moonlighter is planned to come out on 29 May 2018. 

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The story is about an anomaly that happened near Rynoka, a small commercial village where our main protagonist named Will live in. Some ancient Gates that leads you to different dimensions full of treasures that popped out of nowhere excites the local adventurers and commoners alike to venture through the mysterious passages. However, due to the increasing number of deadly monsters, only the bravest ones still venturing through the Gates while the other backed out. Will, is among the bravest ones.

The gorgeous art style and the awesome animation truly captivates my eyes. Combat and items & wealth management is what to expect from Moonlighter. Go be a reckless young adventurer at night and sell your loots by daytime. That's the drill.

You can go into the dungeons in the daytime, of course, but the monsters are likely easier and as you might have guessed, only drops low-average quality loots. Also, you'll probably have no customers in your shop at night.

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In the nighttime, monsters are stronger and drop better loots to satisfy your hoarding tendency. The combat is as deep as having you find your own battle style based on the weapons combinations, items effects, skills, enemies, environment, timing, and positioning. I like the sound of that, something 'easy' but not mindless hack and slash. I see there's potion crafting too, throw in some sort of buff potions for the specific type of monsters and you might as well call this "like The Witcher". 

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And in the daytime, it's time for you to put away your blade and tend to your shop. You can keep the stuff you want for yourself and put the other on sale, set their price, recruit more shopkeepers, and upgrade your shop to be more fabulous. Sometimes the villagers know what they want, requesting certain items with greater rewards.  The customers of your shop are ranging from fellow adventurers to some thief that will do what you do in video games: steal sh*t.

That's pretty much you can figure out about this game. In short, the gameplay is raid the randomly generated dungeons, manage your shop, repeat. It may not sounds so exciting, I agree, but the depth of those 2 activities I've seen so far is enticing enough for me to put it on my wishlist. 29 May 2018, Moonlighter will be available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

I think this game is the type of game that best played on the go, which means perfect for Nintendo Switch. Luckily, for those who think that way and own a Nintendo Switch, it will also be available... but "soon", after its initial release date.

I see 2018 is having pixel art games raining down on us, pretty pixel art games such as Celeste and Iconoclast, I hope this and the next incoming pixel art games will be as good. I'd love some more fun pixel art games other than Stardew Valley and Starbound. You?

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Images credit: Digital Sun