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Feature: “Lemmings Meets Dickens” With A Bit Of Fable – Ex-Lionhead Dev Talks ‘Tin Hearts’

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Tin Hearts first came onto our radar last year when it was unveiled by its publisher Wired Productions in a ‘Direct’-style event. The trailer above set the scene nicely for a Victorian-era setting and, seemingly, gameplay reminiscent of Lemmings or even Mario vs. Donkey Kong. We recently had a slightly longer look in a media event, and it certainly strikes us as a game worth following.

In the new footage there was an extended look at how gameplay is shaping up, and we were immediately struck by a ‘Pikmin’ effect; the toy soldiers are tiny in the larger space of the real world. The video shows some variations in gameplay, too – in some parts the players was a ‘spirit’ controlling soldiers and items to get them to safety, which is where the Lemmings comparison comes in, but there were also brief snippets of a third-person perspective right behind an individual trooper. Overall, the scale of the toys and the recreation of the large spaces around them looked impressive.

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