 What's up everybody I'm the man goose you are awesome at undying games released a pre alpha spotlight video for Dante It's not surprising that this is the first spotlight we get since we've already seen his abilities in action during the extra life event Hopefully there will be more myths to follow in the coming weeks So let's talk about what we saw here much of it is obvious However, there may be a few things that you may have missed I'm not really going to talk about the abilities much since you could just watch the video for yourself to learn all about that The video starts out with an overview of Dante's lore, which is very nice for us lore nerds We also get a good view of Dante's character model And I don't know who did the voiceover for this thing, but damn dude is epic Our of his transmuters Charming charismatic and a quick shot Dante rejects his royal blood in favor of dealing with criminals his way I like this style of intro We get an unfettered up close look at Dante and there's nothing to detract from the story that's being told Next up they tell us about his class arc type and sub arc type Then we get into the meat and taters with the ability descriptions His passive ability has a nice easy to understand UI element However, that brings to attention that there is no UI in this video Perhaps they're still finalizing what needs to be in the UI But I would have much preferred that the UI was visible for the entire video So then we can see where everything will be on screen, especially the passive tracking element The particle effects when his shots are really well done and kind of unexpected for a pre-alpha Not only do you get the magical muzzle flare from his transmuters But you can see the projectiles fracture upon impact with the target This will go a long way towards giving us a visceral gaming experience to provide great visual feedback for when you're actually hitting your target This indicator for silence though I assume that this is like a placeholder asset because that looks dumb And you can see like later on you can see like When malia is slowed she has a pretty good indicator for being slowed Like so hopefully they can come up something a little better for silence Now this isn't the first time we see this but the first I noticed was on the go long example We have death animations Normally at this stage of pretty much every game I've played people just kind of poof into particle explosions when they die But it looks like we get real deal death animations from the start This is really nice. Really cool. I like this The thing I notice here is the play of light and shadows on malia like the with the tree Shadows going by nothing really impactful to say about this. It just looks nice Now evasive maneuvers that animation looks rough Maybe it'll look better if it travels further when you level it up But that's a lot of acrobatics to move a total of like two steps The ultimate is cool a lot like murdoch's long dong There's an interesting effect when you fire where your view is tripled for a short period of time Not sure how I feel about that as opposed to just some bright particle work Let me know what you guys think of the comments Now this part where Dante runs through the water is interesting It would be nice to see some splashes as he goes But I don't expect that level of polish from a pre alpha Seeing his reflection behind him is kind of cool as well as the reflection of the environment From the way his legs move when transitioning from a slope surface to a smooth surface As well as the way he comes to a halt leads me to believe that it's all animation work without distance matching Again, I don't expect distance matching. That was a pretty high level programming technique that epic did with paragon But it would have been nice to see His cape does interact with his boots though, which is an impressive amount of attention to detail You can see that the hem kicks up when his boots hit it I don't know why they use the same running through river scene as the blurred backdrop for the build portion of the video It would have been nice to see him running through some other areas of the map even if it is blurred out Here at the end we can already see that he has an emote At least I assume that's an emote. It could be as like interest animation or something But i'm pretty sure that that's an emote And finally we get a good look at his cyber ronin skin At first I didn't think the skin changed enough about Dante's base look But it really does transform the myth The problem is that it's the same color motif as his base skin. So the changes aren't obvious at first glance I would like to see a palette change on this skin just to distinguish it from the base a bit more Now the thing that really worries me Whoever posted this for ethereal tagged destiny as the game When you post a video you can request more posting options that allow you to add tags or associate the video with a particular game A ethereal clash of souls isn't an option yet on youtube. So when I do an ethereal video, I just leave it blank So someone made a conscious decision to tag destiny I guess because Dante looks a bit like kade 6 But undying needs to be careful who they're marketing the game towards I said this about paragon that game went to shit when they dumbed it down and made it faster to appeal to the FPS crowd I don't like seeing undying games associating their mobo with a looter shooter Mobas are strategic cerebral games and that's what I love about them I would hate to see ethereal morph into more of a brawler just to appeal to a wider player base Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but it does make me worry That's all I gotta say about that folks very exciting to see things like this being released by undying games Makes me feel like the alpha could be right around the corner while there were some things I didn't like about the spotlight I'm overall highly impressed We need to bear in mind that this is a pre alpha view of Dante A character that was built from the ground up without anything being given to undying for free While there could be some improvement undying games did a fantastic job with the miss spotlight for Dante And I look forward to future miss spotlight Like the video if you enjoyed it subscribe if you enjoyed my content But for now, this is the man goo signing off you guys. Have a good one man go