There was this time when upcoming Apple Arcade titles were shrouded in secrecy, well, at least in terms of when you could actually play the darn things. While plenty of titles are announced ahead of time, their releases usually sneak up on you out of nowhere. This has slowly started to change though, especially with iOS 14 and its Coming Soon section in Apple Arcade. One such upcoming game is called Slash Quest! from Big Green Pillow and Noodlecake Games. We know about this game because it is indeed in the Coming Soon section in Apple Arcade, but also because Noodlecake told us about it. You’re doing a bang up job, Noodlecake.
Slash Quest! itself sounds rather awesome. The main character is a talking sword named Swordie who ends up lost and separated from its beloved owner, the Queen. Swordie enlists the help of a local shepherd, named Shep, to help him get back to the Queen. The interesting wrinkle here, aside from the extremely clever character names, is that Swordie is the one leading the way and poor Shep is more or less just getting dragged along for the ride. The entire game is Shep trying to control the chaos of Swordie aggressively moving onwards at all times. Also Swordie is just constantly growing in size for whatever reason" It gets pretty comically absurd, as you can see in this Slash Quest! trailer.
Surely there is a “In Soviet Russia, sword wields YOU" joke to be made here. Slash Quest! is an adventure filled with “enemy cho...