"Never-ending masked ball turned murderous” adventure puzzle game “The Sexy Brutale” will be the first co-production between RiME creator Tequila Works and new UK-based developer Cavalier Game Studios.
Set during a single, endlessly-looping day within “The Sexy Brutale” – a stately English mansion...
"Never-ending masked ball turned murderous” adventure puzzle game “The Sexy Brutale” will be the first co-production between RiME creator Tequila Works and new UK-based developer Cavalier Game Studios.
Set during a single, endlessly-looping day within “The Sexy Brutale” – a stately English mansion converted into a bizarre casino and named by the enigmatic Marquis – players take on the role of elderly priest Lafcadio Boone. To progress, Boone must hide, watch and learn the colorful stories of the other guests at the ball in order to save them from grisly deaths at the hands of the mansion’s staff.
By discovering the key moments and methods how each guest can be saved and gaining occult seeming powers linked to their masks, Lafcadio is able to explore deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the mansion’s past and inhabitants to uncover the truth hidden at the heart of The Sexy Brutale.
Unique "Groundhog Day" puzzle concept – hours of gameplay exploring a single day from different perspectives and locations
Watch, listen and learn until you are ready to act to save each guest from murder
Multiple distinct areas of the mansion to explore, each with its own scenario, characters and puzzles
Darkly-humorous murder-mystery story spanning the entire mansion
Exotic cast of characters, including 9 guests
Acquire special powers by saving victims to progress deeper into the mansion and uncover the secret at the heart of The Sexy Brutale
(The following is all on a bluetooth adapter - not the official Sony adapter - and not via wired USB.)
Despite the game having graphics for DualShock button prompts, the left stick vertical axis of my DS4 did not function. Horizontal and X button was fine, strangely. Ended up using a third party tool to emulate an XInput controller, and that worked fine. Running on Windows 10.
Does not function with Steam's controller wrapper, had to close Steam for controller to work at all.
Score is preliminary, I've played for just under an hour and I'll probably enjoy it. Just wanted to get a bug warning out there quickly since this'll see increased traffic on sale. I did not test wired (which I think works as DInput), I saw one review reporting that DInput's broken too.
TL;DR: Strangely incomplete, broken (at least bluetooth) DualShock 4 support
Another unity-dinput ignorance case. "Full controller support" is just a lie if dinput controllers not working correctly. (See Layers of Fear or Syberia 3 as good examples.)
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