ANTONBLAST, one of the highly anticipated action titles this year, just revealed more details and previews.
Publisher from Joystick Ventures recently dropped a new cinematic gameplay trailer for ANTONBLAST. The video premiered during Steam's Guerrilla Collective on June 7th. And its highlight is no other than the red devil himself, Satan, who is voiced by Gianni Matragrano, one of gaming's most notable voice actors.
The cinematic preview lasted for a minute and a half. And it contained snippets of never-before-seen, in-game cutscenes featuring the Lord of the Darkness. The trailer started with Satan being fixated on his image as the reddest being in existence.
But things took a turn for the worst for the Lord of Darkness. Upon consulting his Magic Mirror, Satan threw in a fit of rage and jealousy. Apparently, he has a contender for being the 'reddest' - a demolition worker named Dynamite Anton from Boiler City. Then all hell broke loose (pun intended).
In ANTONBLAST, players take control of Anton or his cranked-out coworker, Annie. After finding out Satan stole his Spirit Collection out of envy, they go on an anger-fuelled quest to have it back.
ANTONBLAST is currently being developed by indie studio Summitsphere. Developers first revealed the game in a Kickstarter campaign in 2022. Developers also described it as a successor to their Wario Land-inspired Antonball series.
"One of our primary goals with ANTONBLAST has been to make the player feel as if they’re experiencing a living, breathing 2000s cartoon," said Tony Grayson of Summitsphere.
The latest trailer, according to Grayson, also marked a new progress for the game.
"Injecting as much of our personality as possible into every crevice (of the game) has been crucial. (And) our animated in-engine cutscenes are the furthest logical conclusion of that," he said.
ANTONBALL is slated for release on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch this November 12th. A demo version on Steam is still online as of June 8th, 2024.