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Cold steel, colder ale!

Volgarr the Viking, a hardcore 2D side-scrolling arcade action platformer with gallons of blood, extreme bad-assery, and a daring difficulty level, is available 16% off on GOG.com. That's only $9.99 for the first week.

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/volgarr_the_viking][/url]Rise, warrior! Bow to the 16-bit gods of the Arcade'ian Golden Age! Heed Odin's call! You are to become a mythical hero, the stuff of legends passed over goblets of ale at smelly inns, for years to come. Village elders will erect statues in your honor, Viking women will give your name to their firstborn sons, and men of the North will scream Volgarr!!! when storming enemy ranks, to instill dread in their foes' hearts. Of course, if you explode into a bloody fountain of bones and gore, that might not be the case. After all, here, now, you are still just a nameless, hairy, half-naked savage thrown against countless bloodthirsty foes. Can you become the legendary Volgarr the Viking? I dare you.

Volgarr the Viking is an awesome tribute to the most brutal and demanding arcade games of the 80s and 90s. With precise mechanics, simple controls, and challenging difficulty level, combined with pixel-perfect animation and a soundtrack worthy of a truly epic adventure, the game is sure to hold you in its mighty grip for hours on end.

Have your bloody blade ready and become the legendary Volgarr the Viking for only $9.99 on GOG.com!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk
Post edited September 13, 2013 by Tranquil.Suit
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haydenaurion: Indeed, Enix made some rather interesting stuff back in the SNES days.
Yeah, I miss that time... damn heartless Square-Enix. ;p

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Nirth: That game rocked! Probably the biggest surprise of those "X rare games you missed during SNES generation"-lists.

It's hard and unforigiving but the game design was great that losing wasn't an issue, I didn't want to blame the game, I only wanted to get better.
True.
I also recommend all of the games made by this developer (Quintet) for the SNES, especially if you like little action-rpgs from that time. Every single one I think is about reviving the damn world, but they are really good.. ;p
Looks awesome. Rastan had good music, so I'm hoping the music in this one is just as good.
wishlisted seems really hardcore platform
I wasn't very impressed of the gameplay video. The controls look very stiff.
I don't remember posing for that cover shot.
Only ten bucks? NICE. I think I will get this tonight.

This game looks hard as hell. I'll be disappointed if it's not.
Looks very nice, but hard games aren't my cup of tea, sadly (I avoided pledge to Shovel Knight in KS because of the same problem...)
Wishlisted for now. If it's gamepad friendly that will make it more appealing down the line. And yes, I realise you can keymap any game to a gamepad, but I like it working out of the box a la Guacamelee.

Though it had a bit of the Gods vibe in the first screenshot, but looks less puzzly and more arcadey than that title.

EDIT: Classic hardcore arcade action with support for Dinput and Xinput controllers! - hurrah for that.
Post edited September 13, 2013 by IAmSinistar
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Smannesman: Oh someone's going to need fresh underwear when they see this is released.
Which sucks because I'm at work. I need to throw this current pair out before they start stinking up the whole office.

Lol! :-)
Vishted
Question - how gory is this game ?
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Licurg: Question - how gory is this game ?
There's blud and stuff.
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fortune_p_dawg: There's blud and stuff.
How much of it ?
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fortune_p_dawg: There's blud and stuff.
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Licurg: How much of it ?
A little but it comes out when your skin or a bad guy's skin comes off like real life. You know how when you scrape your skin off there is blood underneath? Well, kind of like that but not like a spray more like a splash.
Post edited September 13, 2013 by fortune_p_dawg