Today, developer 10tons has announced that their new match three puzzle adventure Azkend 2: The World Beneath will be releasing next month. Available May 3rd on PS4/Vita and May 6th on Xbox One, Azkend 2 features a unique story line.
While traveling from Liverpool to New York your ship was pulled down into a massive maelstrom and you woke up in a place that may have never been gazed upon by the eyes of men. From now on your goal is to ascend from the bowels of the earth and return to civilization. Enjoy dozens of exciting levels with variable gameplay in the story mode. The Jules Vernesque story of your journey will be told with gorgeous animated full screen cut scenes and professional voice overs. You'll experience awe and wonder through all the eight fantastic scenes that change constantly as you move through them.
Azkend 2 presents you with several different and exciting level styles throughout the adventure. You can also earn almost 20 unique powerups and over a dozen achievements. Choose your powerups wisely for each level to hasten your journey.
In addition Azkend 2 has two challenge game modes called Time and Medals. The Time-challenge is a quick two minute bite-sized game where you'll try to gain as many points as possible and gain fame on the leaderboards. In the Medals-challenge you can replay all the levels from the story and try to gain a medal from each one.
Azkend 2 features a number of interesting features such as
- Eight unique hand drawn & animated scenes
- Three game modes including the adventure and two challenges
- Over 60 levels in the story mode
- Compete on the GC leaderboards in the Time-challenge
- Challenge yourself and replay the levels in the Medals-challenge
- Gain more than a dozen GC achievements
- Professional voice overs in story scenes
- Carefully polished puzzle gameplay
- Universal version available, HD works on all iOS devices
- Cinematic soundtrack by Jonathan Geer
The game originally released back in May of 2014, preceeded by the original Azkend in 2010. Recently, 10tons has released games such as Sparkle Unleashed and Sparkle 2 along with Baseball Riot on consoles. Their newest game, fps Neon Chrome, will be coming to Steam and consoles in a few months.