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South of Midnight Developers Did Not Want a “Chosen One” Narrative – Writer

March 21, 2025 4 Min Read
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Zaire Lanier, author at Compulsion Video games, revealed some particulars in regards to the protagonist of upcoming motion journey recreation South of Midnight. Talking throughout Future Video games Present Spring Showcase – Dwell from GDC (transcription through GamesRadar), Lanier spoke about how the story of Hazel, the protagonist of South of Midnight, is not going to use the “chosen one” trope.

In line with Lanier, Hazel’s frame of mind is “on this bizarre liminal house between [being] a child and turning into an grownup.” Lanier additionally says that Hazel is a traditional child centered on discovering her mom, and that she is “not a superhero.”

Lanier mentioned that the revolving the sport’s story about Hazel being a weaver labored higher than having a “chosen one” narrative as a result of the studio appreciated the concept “anybody generally is a Weaver, it’s one thing that the land will select for you, while you’re in a time of deep want. So Hazel, when she’s chasing after her mother’s trailer within the hurricane, the land chooses her.”

“It’s sort of at random, she blinks and you may see the strands within the sky,” Lanier defined. “Weavers are in a position to see the material of the universe – we name it the grand tapestry – and so they’re in a position to manipulate these strands to do numerous varieties of spells. Their mission is that they heal stigma within the land the place unhealthy issues have occurred.”

“[Weavers] are in a position to see into your traumas. They don’t repair your traumas for you, solely you are able to do that, however they take heed to your story, they see your story, they get to see these recollections, and I feel typically that’s what you want.”

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South of Midnight is coming to PC and Xbox Sequence X/S on April 8. The title is seemingly on observe for this launch date, for the reason that studio introduced earlier immediately that it has gone gold. This primarily signifies that the first improvement on South of Midnight has been accomplished, and {that a} copy of its construct has been despatched to platform homeowners for all of the certification that’s sometimes required for a recreation launch on consoles.

Whereas nearly all of the event work on South of Midnight may be completed, the studio is probably going nonetheless engaged on the sport behind the scenes. This work will then be launched within the type of day one and post-launch updates that possible repair any main bugs that made it by way of the QA course of.

PC gamers trying ahead to play South of Midnight can take a look at the {hardware} necessities revealed again in January. The title’s {hardware} necessities are comparatively affordable, with the really helpful settings needing both an Intel i5-7600K or an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X CPU, both an Nvidia GeForce GTX 2060, an Intel Arc A580, or an AMD Radeon RX 6600 GPU, and 16 GB of RAM.

Gamers desirous about getting their palms on South of Midnight earlier than its launch date can pre-order the Premium Version of the sport, which comes with 5 days of early entry, together with the sport’s soundtrack, a digital artwork e book, and a digital comedian e book.


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