Azure Unseen
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Azure Unseen is a single-player, side-scroller RPG adventure. The main character, Ferris, is a female scientist. The game starts with a character-builder dialogue where players can influence their character's background. Depending on these choices, she can range from an adventurous scoundrel to a focused explorer.
The game has three acts. Act one takes place in the Skyport, a part of a large multilayered industrial city of Minborg, where players navigate relationships, intrigue, and mysteries. Players will make choices, face skill challenges, gather a crew, manage equipment and followers, and complete tasks through choices and using a dice-building mechanic. The city is navigated through an animated map view, with each location offering 3D sets with many interactions that change and progress with time and player choices. The world evolves independently, not allowing players to do everything in one play. This will make the world feel alive and the game highly replayable. Act one ends with the player flying off the main continent with different factions, crews, and ships. This will further influence the Act 2.
Act two occurs on a cluster of undiscovered islands, where factions compete over new discoveries. It continues the intrigue while adding survival and exploration mechanics. This act concludes when Ferris and her crew find an artifact to bring back to the continent, with variations influencing the final outcome. There are no fail conditions, and the game will always move on. The consequences of not being careful and prepared might be dire, but they always carry some reward as well.
Act three focuses on returning to the city, wrapping up the story with challenges and a fight for renown. Ferris finishes an old machine she inherited, which will impact the future of exploration.