David Hilton, OXCGN's resident historian takes a closer look at the new-ish game coming out of Poland later this year, and discusses the games viability . . will it be a success as the developers hope, or simply another hac-n-slash come RPG . .?

Come check out what David has to say, he's been right with many of the Assassin's Creed series over the years, so perhaps he could be close to the mark with Hellion?

Have you heard about the upcoming game Hellion: The Mystery of the Inquisition by Polish game-maker Flying Fish Works and to be released sometime later this year? Probably not.

In fact I thought it was dead, like so many other independent studio games lately.

Apparently it is alive and well and the details we have of a medieval sword wielding Dominican Inquisitor battling in the 13th Century against the rising evil of heretics, possessed, witches, Templars, assassins, animals, demons (sigh) and zombies (double sigh) in a ‘historical fiction’ first person perspective hack ‘n slash have me both interested but also confused.
Game Style: Confusion #1

What I’ve seen of the game so far looks a bit like Oblivion and Dark Messiah but the game will have more timing based hack n’ slash qualities of the action-oriented titles, complete with third person view finishing moves.

So there will be 1st person perspective, RPG elements, and a focus on hack ‘n slash. That sounds good actually. If it works.

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