Into This World Introduction

No one likes a crab mech.

I am about to pop your Into This World cherry... wait for it... uh... there it is, officially popped. Clean yourself up. You're making a mess on my Krang area rug from Ikea. By the way, my name's Bannon Rudis, creator of the upcoming video game title, Into This World. Let me get the giant Indiana Jones crushing ball rolling.

ITW (that's just an acronym for Into This World, everyone, calm down) is a sidescrolling romp in the same vein as Metroid and Castlevainia SOTN (another acronym, there might be more, stay calm) but with an emphasis on exploration and digging. Everyone loves digging. Just ask these kids.

Couldn't be happier!

Why are you digging in ITW? Why wouldn't you dig? When you were a child and you came to a sandbox, did you ever question the inner workings of scooping piles of sand and then the inevitable conclusion washed over you that no matter how much you would dig, it did not in fact go all the way down to China?

"I never made it to China either. I made it to Singapore once. Nice people. They speak English. Who knew?"

Don't derail my rant, Bannon.
No, ya just dug. But let's suggest that your underdeveloped brain hungered for discovery and you wanted to know... nay! You needed to know what the hell was under all that sand. According to your ignorance something new and exciting awaited you beneath the surface.

Alas, there wasn't shit. But in ITW there will be. But of course the deeper you get into the world, the more dangerous it gets.

"Typical videogame logic. Why not throw all the toughest enemies at the hero first and get it over with? C'mon. If Bowser was the very first thing you came across in Super Mario Bros, you would be ass deep in your own tears."

I said shut it, Bannon!

In the year, let's say, 21XX, the world has been taken over by an alien virus that arrived via a meteor crash. The virus has spread throughout the entire planet and terraformed it into a giant living creature. Gross I know. Like yuck to the extreme, even. Everyone hightailed it out of there and went to the Mars colonies to start over.

You play as Drea LeBas. An ex marine who lost her brother over a year ago while their squad was fighting the creature planet. He was swallowed whole and Drea was ripped in half. Boy howdy, was she ever lucky. Phew! After being stitched up and turned into a half machine, she was off to work in the martian mines with her trusty EDU drilling mech.
But after receiving a mysterious transmission from her thought to be dead brother, Drea takes her drilling mech and journeys back to what used to be Earth. What will she find on the hostile creature of a planet? Tacos perchance? Probably not that actually.

Hey, lady. Get back in there!