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[James Scott]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5El-yYNUwU
It has been worked on for 2 years by one person.
The Dev only has 22 followers on Twitter.
Check it out
https://twitter.com/yagnbing/status/759354618060996609

 

[TheMoon]

Dev is a robot. I will not believe he did this alone in two years while also sleeping and eating.

 

[nOoblet16]

Looks good.
I would prefer the sword slash effect to be a bit more translucent and lighter in colour as it obstructs the character from being seen and you don't want hat when the character already moves fast and has stuff like a dash where he pretty much disappears.

 

[Eolz]

Really more impressed by the DMC-like gameplay than the basic UE4 graphics.
Great job, and thanks for linking that!

 

[Vazra]

That looks really impressive and the gameplay seems fun.

 

[Maroon Gamer]

And only one youtube subscriber... This looks good, he is very talented.

 

[KainXVIII]

Looks better than FFXV

Spoiler

sometimes

 

[purseowner]

WTF.

It's Devil May Cry XV. But better. By one guy.

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

Extremely impressive work by one person.

 

[Dombrowski]

Holy. Shit.

.. Protagonist looks a lot like Noctis tho, are we sure it's not FFXV-2?

 

[metareferential]

It's a good FF rip-off.

So much wasted time. xD

 

[Magic Mushroom]

Damn, that looks good.

 

[yoonshik]

DMC X FFXV

 

[ThirstiestGamer 2.0]

Yeah this is interesting for sure. Cool-looking gameplay, and aside from that awful water splash noise in the beginning, it is a solid intro to the game.

 

[Tyaren]

This reminds me very much of FFXV. Looks like older Noctis running around in a less artistically polished Eos 2.0.

 

[HassanJamal]

If you told me this was a FFXV spin-off, I'd believe you. Props to the dev.

 

[Koozek]

Amazing work by only one person, whew. The cutscene with the character, that looks like Noctis, at the beginning looked pretty much as good as FFXV if not better facial-animation-wise. Or am I crazy?

https://youtu.be/z5El-yYNUwU?t=21s

 

[Chrizzy_81]

Looks great! I'll await updates with interest.

 

[Eggbok]

Omg it's beautiful! Day 0!

 

[The Incarnation]

Can't wait for release, just after Half Life 3.

 

[RiZ III]

Looks incredible for a 1 man game. Honestly looks as good as a big budget game and better than other UE4 games I've seen. Combat looks sick.

 

[AAMARMO]

Combat looks awesome and impress with the visual.

 

[Kanguro]

I don't believe one person made that... This is some kind of scam to go viral.

 

[Setsu00]

Amazing work by only one person, whew. The cutscene with the character, that looks like Noctis, at the beginning looked pretty much as good as FFXV if not better facial-animation-wise. Or am I crazy?

https://youtu.be/z5El-yYNUwU?t=21s

I'd say FFXV's facial animation is better, but this is impressive nevertheless.

 

[Blablurn]

looks good

but maybe its more like a tech demo?

 

[Luigiv]

Holy shit, that looks crazy good. Those battle animations look tight.

 

[James Scott]

looks good

but maybe its more like a tech demo?

He says he's working on releasing a demo
https://twitter.com/yagnbing/status/759370025996136448

 

[DanSaxon]

Give this person a fucking cookie. Holy shit that is impressive for 2 years.

 

[Tyaren]

FFXV: Noctis Returns

 

[Galang]

Crazy good for one person! Kudos!

 

[nOoblet16]

Amazing work by only one person, whew. The cutscene with the character, that looks like Noctis, at the beginning looked pretty much as good as FFXV if not better facial-animation-wise. Or am I crazy?

https://youtu.be/z5El-yYNUwU?t=21s

Yea that bit is just you seeing things since it's simply not possible. That scene you are talking about, look again and you'll see that the only animation you have there are the blinking eyes, moving hair and lips which is most likely just using the UE4's lip syncing feature...very simplistic and it is for a reason since at the end of the day it is just one guy.

 

[Pappasman]

Looks like a faster, smoother, better FFXV combat wise.

 

[purseowner]

Square-Enix or Platinum are gonna hire this man, right?

Spoiler

Please.

 

[spannicus]

I want this.

 

[Ashtar]

Mc looks like an animu husbando
But the action looks nice basically what I expected dragon scale or ff xv, or like a next gen dark siders

 

[FelipeMGM]

That is really impressive, he sure deserves better recognition

Good find OP

 

[kgtrep]

Very impressive work. Hope he continues to work on and finish the game!

 

[Calm Mind]

Some people are too easily impressed. My eyes never rolled back so hard.

 

[JehutyGR]

Most impressive.

 

[Zomba13]

Wow, that was absolutely not what I expected when I clicked this thread and then the trailer link. I expected some kind of pretty looking first person "walking simulator" or horror or something, not some kick ass over the top action style game.

Looks super cool. Will be keeping an eye on this!

 

[Sesha]

Certainly looks impressive for being made by one guy in 2 years.

Some people are too easily impressed. My eyes never rolled back so hard.

What's eye-rolling about it aside from the story elements and presentation?

 

[Fezan]

So a single guy is doing animation scripting programming sound design gameplay and level design?

How is this possible

 

[R10Neymarfan]

Square-Enix or Platinum are gonna hire this man, right?

Spoiler

Please.

ah I rather he realizes his game instead of becoming a work horse. Square or Platinum is free to buy IP rights and give him a budget or a team....

OR he could crowdfund this and be given freedom to do what he needs, though Square's production tools could make this game look even more pretty.

 

[tioslash]

This was all done by a single dev? Holy shit, this looks amazing!

 

[Duxxy3]

Remind me again - how many people are making Scalebound?

 

[Koozek]

I'd say FFXV's facial animation is better, but this is impressive nevertheless.

Facial animation, especially the mouth, is one of the few aspects in FFXV I'm less optimistic about. If we assume this is not just an unfinished cutscene (and I really hope it is), it's absolutly not good (here mainly Noctis', the rest is okay):
https://youtu.be/nJDAJ35F3D0?t=2m28s

Looks almost comically bad how fast his mouth flaps up and down when he speaks and his mouth looks derpy in its idle position. Let's hope this is just a rough base version of the cutscene with unedited automatic lip-sync based on the audio (tech, which some games, like Uncharted, TLoU, or TW3, use: http://www.annosoft.com/lipsync-sdks).

 

[Sebastiano]

No way, just one person? With such a big beautiful world and a super impressive combat system? In two years? I have no words, really impressive!

 

[ActWan]

How the fuck is this possible
Amazing work here

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Holy crap.

Amazing.

 

[Sesha]

So a single guy is doing animation scripting programming sound design gameplay and level design?

How is this possible

A lot is possible if you have the skill set and enough time.

Square-Enix or Platinum are gonna hire this man, right?

Spoiler

Please.

I'm pretty sure he could get a job at Platinum if he wanted with these skills.