Lost Spirits of Kael is a haunting hand-painted game about being lost in the woods

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Lost Spirits of Kael is one of the more intriguing indie games on the horizon. It's a 2D hand-painted affair in which your avatar, a painter named Vincent, is lost in a haunted forest and must find his way out by leaving a trail of his own blood.
It's unclear if this will involve manually drawing a trail ala Okami or leaving prescribed markings, and when I asked its creator Pablo Coma about this he said he was still ironing out the details, but confirmed that your health meter would deplete every time you choose to mark your territory.
The whole game is something of a maze and Coma likened it to the Lost Woods of Zelda or the Phantom Forest of Final Fantasy 6. Evidently you'll be able to access any area except for the final one as soon as you finish the tutorial. You'll have to be careful though, as this is a haunted forest after all, with plenty of not-so-friendly ghosts. Coma noted that players will be warned before they enter "a dangerous zone," (or "Danger Zone" as I like to call it) but they can still press on if they feel up to it.
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