DG: Dark Summoner, by Ateam inc, is a very odd game. I’ve played similar games before and have even enjoyed them, but this particular one seems so eager to convince you that hitting a few buttons for a few minutes at a time is somehow fun, immersive or challenging. OK, I should say that pushing only a few buttons occasionally can be fun thanks to social, casual and turn-based gaming, but Dark Summoner is so packed with flashy images and confusing UI elements that I felt like I was stuck in Vegas on a repeating loop.
H.R. Giger, the renowned artist behind the iconic design for one of the scariest monsters in cinema (Alien) and who presides over a very neat museum and bar filled with his work in Switzerland, has engaged with gamers and created creatures for Andrioid and iOS hit DARK SUMMONER.
Giger is known to be making some serious macarbe and sexual stuff as well. Just google him and you'll come across sexual art of the alien with double penetration (!) etc. I shit you not...
There's an adult only "red room" in his museum dedicated to his most explicit work, it's kind of disturbing but also very aesthetically pleasing.
If someone on a gaming or nerd interest related site in general doesn't know who Giger is, they need to reevaluate their internists. I think the Demon's/Dark Souls character designers were inspired by Giger, as well as the Dead Space (primarily the babies in Dead Space 2) character and environment designers.
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There was a Darkseed 2...but it wasn't very good. :(
A Dark Seed game with today's graphics would be amazing. The dark world would look incredible.
Dark Summoner is a role playing card game for your mobile device. That being said, this isn’t just a trading card game, it’s more.
