Light it up

April 6, 2008

LIT is a new game that is currently unreleased that will be coming out for the Nintendo Wii’s downloadable game software called Wii Ware. The game is a 3-D horror-puzzler genre based game. In the game you’ll play as Jake, a high-school student, who himself has a very dark outlook on life, who must protect both himself and his girlfriend Rachael in a school where the students and teachers have turned into creatures lurking in the dark.

Going into the dark means death, but how do you stay in the light when almost everything is covered in shadow? Well, you can do a very large variety of things, such as shooting windows with your slingshot, turning on lamps and PCs to open up new paths of light for you to get to new places. Although the game is supposed to be a puzzler, in the boss battles it will be a lot more action based.

Unlike a lot of horror puzzle games, LIT doesn’t focus on things like finding keys to open doors. Not a lot is known about how you’ll control the Wii remote to play around with the different light sources and how to perform actions like throwing things, and recharging your flashlight. Also, since there’s a speaker built into the remote, you can put it up to your ears and answer cell-phone calls from Rachael.

Since it is a horror game, the monsters will be scary, obviously, but this time it’s rumored that the enemies will be a lot more than just “scary,” they’ll be terrifying. That’s really all I can tell you about the game, but to give you an idea of what Jake, and some of the bad guys will look like, here’s some art I found online to show you (right-click and choose View Image to enlarge.)

JakeStudentTeacherPrincipalJanitorPlantRoach