Posted on: December 27, 2021
SpaceRenegade
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 57 Rezensionen: 6
This is an amazing, excellent souls-like
Games like this are the reason I even bother to keep playing video-games these days. I consider this a hidden gem, as well as criminally underated judging from the hate some reviews give it. But it is because of these reviews that I started the game with tempered expectations and was then absolutely blown away, so no hard feelings. Instead of trying to be souls clone #3687, Dark Devotion gives its own twist to things. It effectively manages to incorporate roguelike elements into its core gameplay without ever turning to procedural generation of levels (and we all know how this turns out). The dungeons are hand-crafted, but traversing them is not reversible, which means that if you missed something you have to do it all over, although this isn't anoyingly repetitive. There are checkpoints too, which means that if you die before a boss and all you want is to defeat that boss, you aren't forced to redo things all over (allthough gathering the equipment along the way might make your life a whole lot easier, anyway the choice is yours). As you might have guessed, it's a game where you die a lot. The combat is deep and button mashing won't get you anywhere. Enemies have interesting and not always predictable attack patterns, even the most basic mobs, which you will need to learn if you are to make any progress. The pixel artstyle is beautifull and intruiging. The soundtrack is pretty sweet too, it maches the atmosphere very well. Sprites and animations are very well done too. The world and plot is a mystery and you're gonna have to piece together the lore you find scattered around if things are to make any sense. Things I didn't like? Hmmm, some non-pixel elements don't blend well with pixel ones, such as in the death animation. The map does't always make it clear which portal leads where. As you can see I have to be very nitpicking. Overall, I'd say this definitely belongs to your collections if you're into the genre.
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