Sausage Legend developers hope Steam launch will take it furter
Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last against Four Gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, which could have expected me – an elastic and proportional hot dog – lose against an apparently inflexible spear of unpretentious little dumplings? This is my struggle in Sausage legend: ArenaA mobile game with a very simple premise: duel with the sausages of other players and win.
On the surface, it looks like a mobile game of garden variety riddled with bugs (it is). But the difference between Sausage legend And an ephemeral idea that you had after having too much on edible products is that 3.5 million people played Sausage legendHe was on Japanese national television, and it is incredibly fun. And with an upcoming version on Steam, it is about to become even greater.
As he began to a fight that requires a boost Sausage legend is a game strongly based on physics. Each sausage is pushed to the battlefield by a fork; Players flop their sausages to have a death to death. As a person with the sensitivity vestige of a 13 -year -off shitposter, I love this ballet of well -timed blows and opportunistic responses, while admiring the resilience and elasticity of my humble sword of meat.
I fight the sausages of cocktails infused by lightning and Weisswurst. There are frogs and goeborgs, as well as a marinated cucumber and a slice of pizza at the pepperoni (which, I suppose, technically contains sausage). There are more than 50 sausages and other different foods, each with different advantages – length, strength, special powers, etc. My health bar refuses to rebuild between the rounds. I learn that at one point, I will meet a metal sausage covered with chrome that looks like something the deepest t-1000 pit Terminator Fanfic. There are practically no instructions, there are tedious advertisements, and when I reopen the game, it did not save my thin progress. And yet, I want more sausages.
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For the developer Tadaki Tani, the inspiration behind Sausage legend did not just play with his food. “At the beginning, we found giraffes who were fighting on YouTube and the giraffes” hanged “the head and around, and that’s how we had the first idea [for the game]He explains through a translator. The first prototype of the game used giraffes, but the combat scenes did not quite work. Why not try the sausages? And therefore, in 2016, Sausage legend was born.
Tani is the CEO of Milkcorp, a studio he founded in 2009 which offers mobile games even there My grizzly,, SleepAnd Pollen sky. My grizzly This is exactly what it looks like – a free Grizzly Bear simulator whose official page (correctly) reads Pollen sky is an self-written “silly game” based on the hay fever of Tani. Sausage legend: Arena 2Its suite only in Japan, presents a world of medieval history where slaves must make a sausage for their freedom. The development team is made up of Tani and another person.
“There are many people who play because of her.”
The greatest boost to Sausage legend came from an internet niche corner: a vtuber Hololive named Oozora Subaru, who has become confused with the original game and plays him obsessively to pleasure (or to sorrow, in some cases) of his fans. (We contacted the cover of Hololive’s parent company to comment, but she did not respond.) In 2021, Subaru obtained her own legendary sausage Sausage legend 2Stylized like a duck, which is its informal mascot. His colleague Vtuber Hakui Koyori also obtained a special sausage: the sausage “Koyori Skin of the big intestine” which sported a soft pink tail. “There are many people who play because of her,” said Tani, noting that it took about 10 of her rivers to see a notable increase in players.
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Later this year, Tani will publish an extended version of Sausage legend: Arena On Steam – essentially a more filled Sausage legend 2 History mode with added features. Slaves must take their arms (sausages) to fight for their freedom in a spectacular hobby favored by the nobles: the sausage duel. There will be a deck construction mechanic to help you develop duels a little better – “The character does not heal, but the cards will help you do it,” says Tani – as well as some new modes and movements.
“We want to extend the game and we want [more] People know it, “said Tani seriously, before I put a little acrylic standing from a hot dog. Sausage legendThe coming release on Steam is about to bring the game to a wider audience, which, with fervor, will include eager modders. Half of the players’ base is Japanese, while the others are abroad in the United States and Taiwan, with France in fourth position. Tani and I are both surprised that Germany is not in the top five; His favorite type of sausage is Weisswurst, which seems appropriate in the cannon of important video game sausages.
After the successful collaborations he had – Crossovers with the 2016 film PartyMorinaga Pino Ice-Cream, and Hololive-I ask if he would plan to work with the restoration competition of Nathan’s hot dogs, perhaps even the Olympic sausages. “If there is a chance, we would do it,” he said with a smile. “Simply eating a hot dog is the best way to eat a sausage.”
