Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness
Should you enter Tecmo's Deception you should be warned! You must decide who lives and who dies. As in life, Tecmo's Deception will hold you responsible for your actions. Everything you do, everywhere you go…
Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Tecmo, released 26 July 1996 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
What Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness is
Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Tecmo and released in 1996. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game opens with you (as the elder Prince) speaking with your father (the King) about your recent journey abroad with your fiance Fiana, when suddenly your father topples from his throne, dead...with your sword sticking out from his back! Your brother just happens to be in the kings chambers with you at the time and calls for the guards, claiming that you killed their father. You are promptly sentenced to death in the town square. Your dying wish is that whomever framed you be brought to justice and that your life be spared...oh, you also yell out something to the fact that you would even sell your soul to Satan if your wish could be granted...Guess what, the devil just happened to be…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness launched on 26 July 1996, within three weeks of Tobal No. 1, Nights Into Dreams... and Triple Play 97. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Tobal No. 1, Nights Into Dreams..., Triple Play 97.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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