Thankfully, you're not starting from scratch every time in fact, the game is designed to help you improve with every failure and help you grow stronger. If all of your Daughters die, you'll begin a new "recollection," or run, that starts you on Day 1 with a brand-new set of Daughters at full HP. Memory plays a major role in Othercide, and it's your greatest weapon. Othercide does a fantastic job of establishing its horror atmosphere and introducing its main characters-the Red Mother and a Child that has merged with Suffering-in a way that immediately grabs you, compelling you to unravel its secrets. With names like Peace, Joy, and Harmony, these wide-eyed, white-haired Daughters cast a stark contrast to the forces of Suffering they face on the battlefield. A city, already devastated by plague, has now been overrun with nightmare creatures called Others and becomes the site of an apocalyptic event that shatters time and space, resulting in an in-between place called the "Dark Corner." Together with a ghost-like being known as the Red Mother, you must command her army of Daughters in a battle against the Suffering Other and its monstrous creations. Though it suffers from some repetitive maps and technical issues, Othercide is an impressive strategy game with an otherworldly atmosphere and rich underlying story worth diving into.įrom the very start, Othercide pulls you into a grim world on the brink of collapse. Othercide's turn-based combat can be brutal, but at its best, it's also intensely rewarding to master. It's a game about sacrifice and hard choices, of accepting failure with the knowledge that you'll rise again stronger. The other declaration iBenji and Shiru are making with Blast Off is that they’re getting the dubstep, riddim and D&B worlds ready for their unique brand of mashup style and that they plan to remind these other genres just how diverse, fun and in this case danceable and head-scrambling halftime can be.īlast Off is out now on Othercide Recordings and can be streamed on Spotify and Soundcloud or purchased on Beatport and Bandcamp.Despite its gothic horror visuals and heavy metal-inspired soundtrack, Othercide is, at its core, a heartfelt story about having empathy and compassion for someone who has suffered intense trauma. Finally with some really interesting beat changeups on closing track “Flow,” chopped up lyrical samples that do anything but flow and a load of spacey laser sounds for added punctuation, the EP end as it began: as a declaration that halftime doesn’t have to sound so halftimey. It’s sort of like if you put Ivy Lab and elements of Noisia and old school BCUK into a blender and added some hip hop vox as seasoning. There’s also a strong hip-hop vein in iBenji’s style, reflected once again on the title track featuring vocals by T3arz and on “Model 315.” The latter track is another intense mashup of metallic, techy and glitchy elements with a vocal sample creating the hip hop feel. They could certainly hit the dancefloor as such. It’s an interesting combination of styles and techniques iBenji and Shiru use to create their unique style of halftime on this EP’s title track and their other collab track, “Shinobi.” Clearly in the halftime tempo wheelhouse, the feel of these tracks is so full of changeups, grinding, metallic synths and eerie ambient sound design that one could be forgiven for thinking these two tracks could easily be turned into a neurofunk/jumpup hybrid or that they’re slowed down dubstep. Adhering to halftime but obviously influenced by and tinged with lots of other elements, it’s no wonder Othercide grabbed these two artists before they really blow up. The EP hits hard with sometime production partner Shiru on two of the tracks. While iBenji has been releasing for some time now, his new Blast Off EP with Shiru, out last Friday on Othercide, may be his first contact with the wider bass and D&B scene-and what an intro it is. IBenji and Shiru ‘Blast Off’ to the Othercide
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