
Like the dokebi themselves, "when you use the umbrella, you hide your form and essentially become invisible," shares Sang Young Kim. Your umbrella is one of the ways you get around the open world, helping you soar through the sky. It's not the only everyday object to have a modern-day supernatural twist. Daeil Kim describes this as being a homage to Ghostbusters ("which we loved watching," he adds). Once you've defeated a foe, you use a special vacuum cleaner to liberate the trapped dokebi from the machine. How you build your character depends on the dokebi team you have to hand. "Each dokebi has special skills and effects that the player puts to use and allows them to have superhero-esque powers that lets them transform into different types of persona," explains Sang Young Kim. Using the dokebi, you're able to power up for the real-time fights. While the game supports solo play, these boss fights are one of the key times when you can team up with other players to take them out (though there will be competitive play that espouses the virtues of sportsmanship too). Those machines with dokebi AI won't go down easily, and you'll need to tackle them in a real-time action battle system where you need to get your hands dirty. Another distinctive feature is the way you fight. The way you undertake quests to befriend each individual dokebi is one element that distinguishes the game from the competition, as well as how you explore the large open world, which has a distinctly modern feel. It'll be a lot of fun for the player to meet each dokebi to engage in their unique stories." "There are some dokebi that you can befriend easily, as well as dokebi that require meeting special conditions. Instead, " about befriending them by meeting special conditions through their unique stories using information from hints about dokebi that you discover all around the town and world," says Changkee Nam.


Unlike The Company, Pearl Abyss is keen to emphasise that your character doesn't actually capture any dokebi, even though the game does involve monster collecting.
