AWAYSIS

What's the story? Brawling glory

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Kyoto-based 17-Bit has tried its hand at different genres and platforms, but one of CEO Jake Kazdal's ambitions has always been to make a Zelda-style action adventure. Indeed, Nintendo's series has been formative for Kazdal, who discovered the NES original after a skateboard accident kept him housebound one summer holiday. And yet the influence isn't immediately apparent in Awaysis' arcade-oriented mission structure, in which diminutive fox Auro journeys to the titular floating island to battle evil goblins.