Dragon Blaze 2: Knights of Veda was first announced last March, and subsequently developer FLINT has gone back to development mode. Yesterday, a year after the game’s reveal, more details were provided to the Korean media about this upcoming mobile RPG sequel with a darker, tenser mood. Seen below are some of the summarized points, so read on!
• Dragon Blaze 2: Knights of Veda will be playable cross-platform on PC and mobile devices. There are plans for a console version too.
• The game supports up to an optional 3-player multiplayer, which can be done for the whole game.
• It was mentioned that “there is a part of the game which is completely manual play,” but did not confirm if it is the whole game.
• An important vision for Dragon Blaze 2 is a title which “values controls” and is a “fun action game.”
• The same character-collectible and 2D side-scroll elements, as first seen in the game reveal last year, remains.
• Dragon Blaze 2 is the prequel to the first Dragon Blaze, which was published globally by Gamevil (now Com2uS Holdings).
• While Dragon Blaze started off with very colorful and cutesy scenarios, which eventually descends into dark times, Dragon Blaze 2 on the whole feels like a full dark fantasy experience.
• The core developers from Dragon Blaze are working on Dragon Blaze 2, and it is a very important project within FLINT as it is a numbered sequel.
• 90 people are working on Dragon Blaze 2, but FLINT aims to up that number to 120 before launching the game.
• 28 characters are planned for Dragon Blaze 2’s launch.
• The main roadblock faced when developing a cross-platform title are the synchronization problems between platforms, and optimizing graphics for the PC.
• Compared to Dragon Blaze, “100 times more time” were used to write the story of Dragon Blaze 2.
• It is alright for new players to not know what happened in the first Dragon Blaze, as there are new characters in Dragon Blaze 2 and it has a story and a worldview that can be fully understood without knowing the previous title.
• New content is still being developed for the first Dragon Blaze, and the team has not been reduced to accommodate the sequel.
• With regards to long-term planning and content, there are 12 Veda Knights for players to encounter, and based on the episode and seasonal planning, it was joked that it will take 10 years for players to meet all of them.
• Dragon Blaze 2 started development 6 years ago with 30 employees, and things only ramped up about 18 months ago.
• Focus Group Test (FGT) is expected to start in South Korea later this year, followed by Closed Beta and an official launch.
• There are plans to release art books, webtoons, figurines, and more merchandise and other content for Dragon Blaze 2, something which wasn’t done for the original game.
