With all this news that's been released in the last couple of days about "Killzone Mercenaries" releasing on September 17th and "Soul Survivor" releasing on April 30th, I was compelled to see what else is on the way for the Playstation Vita today, and one game that has certainly captured my attention is "Tearaway" an upcoming game from Media Molecule the creators of the "Little Big Planet" series for Playstation consoles.
"Tearaway" is an adventure game rather than a Do It Yourself platforming game like the LBP games, and one of the first things that caught my eye about the game ( after its beautiful stylized art style -- the game is set in a cardboard cut-out type of paper-based world) was that the main character appears to be a Native American; however, I'm not really sure if he is a Native American or not. In an interview with one of the creators of the game I heard him say that they were actually incorporating elements from many different mythologies into the game. Still to me with the feather in the back of the main character's headress I can't help but think that that implies that the Native American mythos is strong with this one especially since one of the staple monsters in this game is that staple of Native American folklore that is sometimes confused with the fabled cryptozoological creature Bigfoot The Wendigo.
To see the latest "Tearaway" trailer click on this link: http://youtu.be/oAwKS1rl-_0
To me "Tearaway" looks to be another family friendly game from Media Molecule, and I don't generally pay that much attention to all-ages types of games. But with its beautiful stylized look, the fact that it seems to be offering a more streamlined, traditional type of storytelling than we've come to expect from Media Molecule from their previous games, and with the elements of Native American folklore which I find to be so fascinating incorporated so heavily into "Tearaway" I can't help but feel that this game has a strong chance of being Media Molecule's best and it might be able to generate the same type of acclaim on Sony's systems that one generally finds most often associated with Nintendo's type of All-Ages faire. Hopefully it will.
An interview with one of the creators of "Tearaway" plus game footage ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4qdR4VPTuU ) by youtube's Family Gamer TV ( http://www.youtube.com/user/FamilyGamerTV).
