To Hell With the Ugly heads to Nintendo Switch later this month
After Edgar – Bokbok in Boulzac, La Poule Noire are back with another game on Nintendo Switch: To Hell With the Ugly (co-produced by ARTE France). It’s an adventure game adapted from Boris Vian’s novel featuring turn-based battles. It will launch on May 30th in Europe and North America for 19.99€ / $19.99.
Here’s a trailer:
To Hell With the Ugly is an adventure game that follows the story of Rock Baily (a man whose only redeeming quality is his handsomeness) who is kidnapped outside a jazz club. In order to discover the truth behind his abduction, he sets out on a perilous investigation across Los Angeles that will have him take part in turn-based fights.
Here’s some details and some screenshots for the game:
Adapted from the novel by Boris Vian, To Hell With the Ugly is an adventure game that follows the story of Rock Bailey, a young man whose only redeeming quality is his remarkably handsome looks. When he is mysteriously kidnapped and tortured outside a jazz club, he sets out to uncover the truth behind his abduction, with turn-based fights and investigations along the way.
Players must explore LA’s darkest corners, gather clues by interviewing locals and interact with the environment. But sometimes, the only way to get the information they need is through fist fights, involving timing and precision.
To Hell With the Ugly is the very first of Boris Vian’s novels to be adapted into a video game. Set in the 1950s, the game will let the player discover the streets of a fantasized Los Angeles, where Boris Vian never even set foot when he wrote the book. La Poule Noire chose to use a semi-realistic style for their characters in order to magnify certain character traits, in a striking depiction of the American city with vibrant and intense colors.
Provocative and burlesque, To Hell With the Ugly is a parody of American noir novels and navigates between detective fiction and anticipation. It denounces the cult of appearances through its gorgeous looking hero and a worrying clinic with eugenicist practices.
To Hell With the Ugly is a parodic adventure game adapted from the novel by Boris Vian. You play as Rock Bailey, a young man whose greatest quality (and only one) is his gorgeous looks. Mysteriously kidnapped and tortured outside a jazz club, he wakes up with the firm intention of finding those responsible for his abduction. Between turn-based bar fights and investigation in the Los Angeles of the 50’s, discover the truth behind this horrible scheme.
In To Hell With the Ugly, you play as Rock Bailey, a blond and strikingly handsome young man who systematically refuses all advances made to him. And for good reason : he stubbornly saves himself until the day he turns 20. One night, however, everything changes when he is drugged and kidnapped outside the Zooty Slammer jazz club and wakes up in a strange hospital. Why would anyone want to abduct Rocky? Can you track down his kidnappers? Help Rocky get to the bottom of his kidnapping, and find out who is behind this horrible scheme.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Boris Vian, To Hell With the Ugly is a turn-based combat and point and click adventure game set in a film noir atmosphere. Unravel the mystery surrounding your kidnapping by exploring some of LA’s most secret corners. Gather clues by interviewing locals, and interact with your environment to find the truth. But some information won’t be delivered so easily. Use your fists to persuade the most stubborn to help you in your quest.
- A story of investigation adapted from the work of Boris Vian
- A magnificent Californian atmosphere from the 50’s
- Turn-based combat based on timing and precision
- Gather clues and solve mysteries
- An original and energetic jazzy soundtrack
To Hell With the Ugly (Switch – eShop) comes out on May 30th in Europe and North America.
Source: ARTE France PR
