Fissure (2022)

Fissure (2022) is a platforming role-playing video game developed and published by Fantendo. The game follows a young Beorn, Unten, as he travels through the alien world of Zeon, his home planet. Unten, as the chosen Augury, must save his planet from Doomulus Grime, a dictator siphoning the life of Zeon soil. 
It is the second reboot of the eponymous original game and a remake of the Prodigy trilogy. It was announced as the start of a new canon storyline for Unten's story. 
The game is set to release on Switch on April 14th, 2024.
Fissure's gameplay is described as having attributes of a side-scroller with role-playing elements such as equipment to increase stats over time. Therefore traversing the lands of Zeon will include a variety of platforming elements and puzzles.
Despite being a 2D side-scroller, the lands may have two planes (the second one is in the background), Unten can travel between those planes by following paths that connect them or using quick tunnels.
* - JUMP
* - DASH
* - USE ITEM A
* - INTERACT	
* or - SWITCH COMPANION
* - (Pressing) CONTROL FANTI
* - USE ITEM B
The game features traditional turn-based combat. Combat in Fissure has simple mechanics, but it gets busy in a hurry. Mastering every aspect of combat is the key to survival and efficiency.
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When physical contact occurs between a character and an enemy, the screen dissolves into battle mode. Because battles are not random, tactical advantages can be gained. If the player approaches an enemy from behind, the battle becomes an "Initiative", giving the player the first-strike priority no matter the opponent's speed. If the enemy approaches the player from behind, it becomes an "Ambush", giving the enemy this advantage.
With the right equipment, if the player gets an "Initiative" on weak enemies (who have less Heart than Unten's attack), they will be defeated without entering a battle.
The player can control up to two characters during battle and up to three enemies can appear during battle.
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On the top of the battle mode screen, there is a Timeline. Icons illustrating your party members and enemies are on this Timeline. The icons move from the beginning to the end, left to right. Once an icon gets to the end of the Timeline, that entity can act. For the player, a menu pops up and the battle pauses until the player chooses their action. 
The speeds of the icons' movements can be affected by several factors, like items or abilities.
During a battle, every time Unten or one of his allies hit the opponents they fill their Hyper Meter. Fulfill the Hyper Meter gives the fighter bonuses in their damage, defense, and abilities. 
At the beginning of the game, Unten can fulfill his meter once but as he progresses he can fulfill it two to three times, giving him even stronger bonuses.
By fulfilling three times the meter, Unten automatically turns into his Hyper Form, changing his appearance. In Hyper Form, Unten can unleash a special attack, the HyperDrive.
Zerita, Boare, and Mynis also have a Hyper Form but they only need to fulfill their Hyper Meter two times (instead of thrice like Unten). They also need, like Unten, to unlock the ability to complete their meter twice.
It's important to note, that the Hyper Meter decreases for every hit taken by the characters, canceling their bonuses or Hyper Form.
Few enemies, notably Netnu and Doomulus Grime, have a Hyper Meter and, in some cases, a Hyper Form.
Items will be a big part of your strategy. Between the weapons to equip with, the Fruits to bake, and the consumables to recover your health or give you a temporary boost, a wide choice is given to the players.
Weapons can be equipped to increase character strength. There is an expansive arsenal to upgrade skills and attacks for Unten and his companions.
There are five weapons with each of them having its very own gameplay. The most common way to find them is during a certain point of your adventure. You can evolve each type of weapon to make them more powerful, to do so, collect Metals and bring them to Reten so he can forge you an upgraded weapon or armor. Metals are obtained by defeating enemies or opening craft but rarest metals can only be obtained when a stage is completed at 100% (all enemies are eliminated).
During the game, the player will find multiple Fruits on their way. Unten can bake them into yummy desserts, which enables the creation of items that upgrade your Health, and Speed, or can even give you new abilities.
Fruits are in limited numbers in the game; some are rarer than others. The player has to choose his recipes carefully depending on whether they want to focus on health, speed, or abilities.
Desserts are baked by mixing two Fruits at a cooking spot, like a fire camp or a kitchen. The player can also ask Eliza to cook him special recipes that need up to three Fruits (instead of two).
: List of Merchants: here
There is no currency in Fissure but there are Merchants. Since nothing is free, most of the merchants are asking for specific items or favor in exchange for their services.
The character Fanti is used as an in-game mechanic outside of and during battle. The player can freely move Fanti to open chests that Unten cannot reach, the player can also teach Fanti new powers, like Shining in a dark place or slowing down enemies.
Fanti learns new abilities through the game every time you come across Queen Pixella:
Luminescence 	In dark places, Fanti automatically glows so you can find your way.
Flash 	By pushing while controlling Fanti, Fanti will create a flash around her, stunning sensible enemies.
Static Electricity	By jumping twice () while controlling Unten, Fanti stretches herself like a parachute this allows Unten to slow his descent and hover in mid-air.
Velocity 	By pushing while controlling Fanti, Fanti dashes indicated direction. While dashing she becomes a thunder able to go through sinuous space. Fanti turns back to normal if she hits an obstacle or if the player pushes again.
Fuse 	By pushing Fanti can enter inside a machine or a robot and take control of it.
Lidar 	By pushing Fanti summons little firefly which slowly floats towards the closest hidden item/secret
Rainbow 	An upgrade of the Velocity ability. By pushing Fanti dashes into an indicated direction. While dashing she becomes a rainbow able to go through sinuous space. By dashing through an enemy or Unten, Fanti turns them into Rainbow and makes them dash with her, making them also able to go through sinuous spaces.
The narrative of the game is divided into Chapters. Each chapter has its own story, participating in the game arch-story. The player starts every chapter with Unten and will find companions during their progress before the beginning of the next chapter the companions will remove themselves.
READ THE PROLOGUE
A new Doomulus Grime factory is built near Unten's tribe.Unten, Zerita, and Mondo decide to put a stop to the construction but things won't turn good for the three friends.
*Companion: Zerita
*Enemies: Gnarled, Flyan, GrimBot, Icebear
*Gameplay focus: Tutorial, Platforming
*Fanti's new ability: Flash, Static Electricity
*Boss: Doomulus Grime
READ THE STORY CHAPTER
Unten decides to become the hero, the Augury, he was meant to be, fiercely he decides to save the Underground, a Beorn shelter, from a dangerous gas emitted by a factory. In his mission, he meets Boare who has the same goal and he is also the Augury?
*Companion: Boare
*Enemies: Thugs, GrimeBot, GrimeBot II, Netnu
*Gameplay focus: Stealth
*Fanti's new ability: Velocity
*Boss: Ramiranda
READ THE STORY CHAPTER
Unten is now wanted all over Zeon and had to hide in the underwater city down Elasmo Bay, where the Sjarc lives safe from Grime. Tracked down by the bounty hunter Netnu, he found help in the clumsy Mynis, oh wait... Mynis is also an Augury?!
*Companion: Mynis
*Enemies: Blorb, GrimeBot II, UN10, Netnu
*Gameplay focus: Consequence and manipulation
*Fanti's new ability: Fuse
*Boss: The Ice-Krakens
READ THE STORY CHAPTER
The final confrontation versus the maleficent Doomulus Grime. Unten has to stop him from stealing the very essence of Zeon. Hopefully, old friends, Zerita and Mioda, come to help him.
*Companion: Zerita
*Enemies: GrimBot III, Unt3n
*Gameplay focus: Survival
*Fanti's new ability: n/a
*Boss: Doomulus Grime
As Zeon is on the verge, Unten must assume his destiny and stop his more powerful and tragic enemy.
*Companion: Player's choice
*Gameplay focus: Enigmas
*Fanti's new ability: n/a
*Boss: The Darkness
Blumps are a limited resource in the wild, but it is still possible to grow them. Using Ronnie and Mynis' little garden, the player can plant a Blump (instead of consuming it), after completing more than 30 minutes of the game, the garden will give two Blumps for one Blump planted! It is also the best way to obtain Glistening Blumps, you have a 25% chance that one of the two Blumps is a Glistening one.
Ronnie's Garden is also the only way to obtain the Black Melon, if the player becomes friends with Ronnie she will invite you (as Mynis) to go on an adventure to get the secret Black Melon seed, and from there, you will have to closely take care of the fruit's growth.
You can't plant any other thing than the Blumps or the Black Melon seed.
After the story makes Unten go through the Underground Arena in Chapter 2, Unten becomes a member of the Arena. As a member, there are four Pits the player can choose from:
*Champion Pit: The same as the story where Unten has to fight champions like R8-DSH. Champions will always have the same state as Unten making them as strong as him.
*Horde Pit: A 50-match trial, where Unten has to fight 49 groups of regular enemies in a row up to the boss in the 50th match, Master Mortua.
*Onyx Pit: It's a Boss Rush. Only available in post-game and if you defeat all the regular bosses. You can fight once again and in a row every Boss.
*Black Diamond Pit: Same as the Onyx Pit but with all the bosses (secret ones included) in their mirrored version. Only available in the Mirror Zeon version of the Arena (it will replace the Onyx Pit there) and if you defeat all the bosses (regular, mirrored, and secret ones). This is considered the ultimate challenge of the whole game.
Once Unten defeats The Darkness and after the end credit, the game will ask you if you want to access the Post Game. By doing that, you will start the game on the last Save before reaching the GigaDrill. It plays the same but this time you can choose any party member between Zerita, Boare, or Mynis, at the entrance of any level.
Blue Soup will appear at the beginning of some tricky platform phase that Unten has already cleared alone. Blue Soup will defy you to redo the same platform phase but faster than him. Blue Soup also has its own "Fanti" called Princess Cool Soup IX.
In the Post Game, when you come back to your last save after having seen the end credit at least one time, Unten can go into Mrs. December's house. In there, he can go through her Magic Mirror to access Mirror Zeon. Mirror Zeon contains a mirrored version of every level, with faster obstacles, making the progression more difficult. The enemies (including the boss, and the ones found in the Underground Arena) have a new color palette and are generally faster and stronger also they won't disappear once you defeat them like in the main game.
There are three Blue Soup's courses in Mirror Zeon but here Blue Soup transformed himself into BLU3 SOU9, a powerful form that will instantly kill Unten if they touch.
This version of the game has no story, the player won't through the cutscenes or any event from the story's main game again.
As a sidequest all along the main campaign, players can investigate the story of Queen Pixella and the First Augury who fought together to stop the first grande threat that Zeon faced. The full story will be discovered through dialogue with people, ancestral arts, and any other clues throughout the adventure. Once the truth is known at a secret level, The Primordial Threat will be available.
The Plumber is a secret boss hidden in Mirror Zeon. Especially powerful he represents a big challenge even for the best players.
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