The guitar-shredding side-scroller Slain: Back from Hell brought heavy metal horror to Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2016, and soon it will be Nintendo Switch's turn to host the blood-soaked sword and sorcery video game... so get ready to bang your head and mash buttons through metal mania:
Press Release: 30 November, 2017 – All hail the great horned metal god! Publisher Digerati Distribution and indie developers Andrew Gilmour and Thomas Jenns are thrilled to announce Slain: Back From Hell for Nintendo Switch™. The brutal, forged-from-heavy-metal hack-and-slash adventure will launch 7 December, 2017.
ABOUT THE GAME
You control the fate of Bathoryn, a doomed hero in a Gothic world, who seeks to liberate six cursed realms from six deadly overlords. He must battle his way through this blighted land, packed with gruesome and lethal creatures, before ascending (or sometimes descending) into a stronghold, all the while defeating fiendish traps and vile monsters alike.Accompanying the heavy metal visuals is an even heavier metal soundtrack recorded by Curt Victor Bryant (formerly of Celtic Frost).
Key Features
- Challenging ‘elemental’- based melee and magical combat
- 6 hours of bone-crushing, metal-fueled mayhem and grisly gore
- Choose from 3 unique weapons in your fight against the demon hordes
- Full soundtrack recorded by Curt Victor Bryant, formerly of Celtic Frost \m/
- Cunningly concealed secrets (shhh)
- Boss fights, mini-boss fights, sub-mini- boss fights and macro-sub- mini-boss fights
- No laborious leveling, no tedious grinding, no wimpy crafting!
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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