If Bandai can be believed, the Dark Souls series is truly done. Yes, I know that information is hard to hear. However, we are getting a new Souls-esque game, albeit with an anime style called Code Vein, and we finally have a release date, set for September 28 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Directed by Hiroshi Yoshimura, the man behind the God Eater series, Code Vein is set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, where players will take control of a Revenant, a member of a clan of vampires that live in a place called Vein (get it?). You won't be rolling alone in this hellish looking world, however; you'll get an AI-controlled companion called Mia Karnstein, who will help you to rip through a fallen queen’s lieutenants, collecting blood vials, which sound an awful lot like Souls in terms of how you collect them and how they function, since you pick them up off of dead enemies and use them to unlock new abilities and attacks.
Yoshimura had this to say about the similarities and differences to both the Souls and God Hand games in an interview with vg247:
“Yes, [Code Vein] is that… Dark Souls-ish, dungeon action RPG. Because I’m the creator of God Eater, there’s a lot of character behind the story… We do have that unique flavor of narrative in there, so we wanted to feature that within the dungeon action RPG genre. ...The battle system is driven by very tense one-on-one battles, kind of like Dark Souls. The thing that separates us from Dark Souls is really.. it’s because they’re vampires. Because of the blood they suck, they can use these special abilities called gifts. These gifts allow you to for instance speed up or create shields to block enemy attacks.”
Take a look at the new trailer below, there are a lot of comparisons being drawn between this and the Souls-Borne games, and it's easy to see why; giant weapons, towering bosses, and a combat system that looks like it shares a lot of common ground with those other titles.
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