Independent developer and publisher Nnooo has announced the release date for The Legend of Kusakari, a quirky adventure-puzzle game from Japanese developer Librage. The game is scheduled to launch on 25 August on Nintendo 3DS in The Americas, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In this game you don’t let any grass grow under your feet, instead you cut it.
In The Legend of Kusakari you play the role of Shiba Kari, a humble grass cutter who keeps the fields clean so brave warriors can focus on defeating evil and in doing so, eventually defeat the Demon King. While cutting the grass Shiba Kari has to avoid the battles going on around him as well as the slimes, dragons and other objects trying to distract him from his heroic task.
He can level-up his scythe within each level of the game by cutting more grass and use this to unleash a powerful grass-cutting swing. He literally lives to cut the grass, so if he stops even for a short period he will lose health which can be replenished by finding and cutting a clump of life-giving blue grass. The faster Shiba Kari completes each level, the higher his rank will be for that level. On completing each level he is rewarded with a fanfare from the good king’s band, in which one of the trumpeters is not quite as proficient as the other band members.
You can find the game’s trailer below.