A living weapon and a body that pays interest on every upgrade
Veylor Labs pitches a soulslike where your only companion is also your gun, and getting stronger means losing pieces of yourself.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The cover art for Protocol 73: The Zenith is a face split down the middle. One half is a woman with tired eyes and a hood pulled close. The other half is wiring, plating, the machinery of a skull with the skin peeled back. That split is the whole pitch in one image, and it says more than most trailers manage. Behind her, bare trees and a bruised sky. No enemies, no combat, nothing you could call gameplay in this shot. It is a portrait, and portraits are supposed to tell you who someone is before you ever see what they do. Here the answer is: someone who has already given something up. A wea...