The Making Of Sorcery: A Hero’s Journey - PSBlog

Posted by Brian Upton // Creative Director, Sorcery, SCEA Santa Monica Studio

In this installment of our “Making of Sorcery” video series, we take a look at the fantasy surrounding the spell-casting gameplay and tap a few members of the development team (including myself) to discuss the origins of the story. Our key leads at The Workshop and our Santa Monica Studio were able to provide some great insight into the relationship between the main characters, the motivation of our villain, and the inspiration for the world we created. As you know, Sorcery brings the world of magic and wizardry to life using the PlayStation Move motion controller. To give you a quick refresher on the story and gameplay…the Nightmare Queen has broken the ancient pact with mankind and threatens to cover the land in eternal night.

[Godchild1020]

After watching that video, I grew an emotional attachment to the characters. Hopefully once I start playing the game, that emotion stays and last until I complete the game.

This is a day one from me and each video I see from the Devs makes my heart grow a little inside for this game. My heart will shatter if this game falls short. The only thing I wantt is the emotion and the gameplay to be there and from the looks of it, I will be walking away happy with my purhase.

[Toman85]

Looks promising for me
Preordered it many weeks ago, after this documentary I grew some feeling for that character and the cat :3

But it will get butchered by reviewers because it is not on Wii/X360 Kinect title...

[Godchild1020]

I beg to differ, look at the reviews Kinect Star received. I don't think it will get butchered due to not being a Wii or Kinect game.

I see the only way for it to not get decent to great reviews is if the gameplay, story and controls are not well put together and anything else reviewers factor into their reviews.

From the looks of it I expect 8s and 9s. Maybe a few tens and a few reviewers giving it 7s and 6s. Of course I want it to just get 8s, 9s and 10s, but we will have to just wait and see.