Kuon is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 1 April 2004 on PlayStation 2.
What Kuon is
Kuon is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2004. It was published by Agetec. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kuon is a horror game set in Heian period (12th century) in Japan. You control three protagonists in the game. The story revolves around a man named Doman, an exorcist who was summoned by one of the noblemen to investigate a cursed manor. His daughter Utsuki is out to search for him when he doesn't return, and her sister is charmed by demons inhabiting a mysterious castle, turning into a demon herself. A young girl named Sakuya, Doman's disciple, also ventures into the depths of the demonic world, to prove herself worthy of her master. Once the player completes Utsuki's and Sakuya's scenarios, they unlocks the third scenario where they experiences the story from the point of view of Doman…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Kuon holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Kuon launched on 1 April 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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