Jon Bookout is a big fan of the classic JRPGs like Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, and the Lunar games. He’s now leading development of his own JRPG-type game, inspired by those influences, but with one difference: this is a horror game where you play as the villain.
Lucid Soul is the result, and its crowdfunding campaign has already reached its $50,000 goal. “What would playing as Kefka change for Final Fantasy 6? How would his madness translate into gameplay, allies, playable characters, etc. If you were Ghaleon in Lunar, would it feel different to experience the same story compared to Alex?” Bookout says.
In this game the threat to mankind are the Deathtouched, those who consumed blood of the Black Dragons to gain powers — the side effect being corruption of the soul. But since too much corruption is never enough, your party is after a prized Black Dragon Egg that will make them more powerful...
