Posted on: July 8, 2021

CthuluIsSpy

Spiele: 386 Rezensionen: 6

Has potential, but very, very rough

This game has good art direction and several nice ideas. The concepts of weapon affinity (weapons get better with use) and time-related events are interesting and the combat does have a nice punch to it. The levels are are fairly large with a lot of loot and secrets to encourage exploration, which fits the objective of the game - to acquire data. However, there are game design decisions that can make the game more frustrating than enjoyable. For starters, the inventory UI isn't great. It doesn't provide as much information as it should and you can't even see the stats of equipment you craft. Despite weapon affinity being a core mechanic of the game you can't see what abilities you've unlocked, and you can't even review key codes you've found. Another frustrating mechanic is the platforming. Which isn't bad in itself, but you take fall damage and the jumping controls aren't great, which can quickly get really annoying. The difficulty spikes in this game can get absurd. One minute you'll be dealing decent damage, and then suddenly you'll face an enemy that kills you 2 hits and takes little damage. It doesn't help that the hitbox for some weapons are broken; some attacks will just go straight through enemies and deal no damage. It doesn't help that when you die a special enemy type called a ghost will spawn. This was a novel concept at first, but it quickly grew old when they started to make difficult encounters even more difficult. They don't spawn in boss arenas at least. Overall, this game is ok as is, but it really needs another patch to refine it a little more. There needs to be a rebalance and some QoL changes to make it feel like less of a chore to play though at times. Funnily enough, it reminds me a little of Dark Souls II, but with less polish and much worse UI. Whilst the souls games were frustrating at times, they did enough stuff right to balance it out, a balance that Hellpoint lacks at the moment.

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Posted on: June 14, 2021

Crowcloak

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 571 Rezensionen: 22

Not sure where the hate is from

The game is good. People compplaining about lack of key binding need to git gud. Sifi Souls-like game. If you hate Dsrk Souls then dont download this. You'll hate your life. If you do like DS then download it not expecting it to be DS. I haven't seen any game breaking bugs since I've started playing. Not saying there arent any but I haven't seen any bugs myself. I got this game for free, and would pay for this on sale. The game good but not great. Playable and fun.

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Posted on: September 22, 2021

mudplayerx

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Spiele: 179 Rezensionen: 31

Amazing, Immersive, Challenging

Let’s get this one out of the way right at the start of this review. This game is a Souls-like, so if you don’t like difficult, unforgiving combat and game mechanics then this game will probably frustrate you. If you are unwilling to change up your approaches to combat based on which enemy you are facing, learn their combos, adapt, etc then you will have a bad time. I actually read a lot of these reviews and I can honestly say that the majority of the negatives were left in the throes of nerd rage. This game has the tendency of not only being brutal, but also kicking you while you are down repeatedly. Most of these negative reviews sound like they came from millennial gamers who like being spoon-fed. The game itself is so immersive and captivating. The moment that my character awoke in the brine-filled spawning pool all disoriented in a setting that only a Tool song could properly act as a soundtrack; I knew I was in for a good time. Space is awesome and creepy. Throw in a holocaust, people and creatures stirring in undeath, and a demon infestation and you have a downright amazing atmosphere. The combat is done very well. Visceral and deadly like Dark Souls, where a couple of lowly dreg-demons can easily rake half of your life away if you are careless. Combat where you can literally use a concrete pylon ripped from its rebar to smash in the frail, lithe bodies of extra terrestrials. Take the time to learn the flow and it exhilarating. Try to brute force your way by spamming attacks and you will be back here leaving a negative review like the other nerd ragers.

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Posted on: August 1, 2020

Pyredyne

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Spiele: 512 Rezensionen: 22

Buggy at launch

The "soulslike" genre is my bread and butter and I was more than excited for Hellpoint. Cradle Games is a small studio with limited resources and despite that Hellpoint looks fairly good in the graphics department. The art direction is something people will either love or hate. The real problem here is the level design. Levels look very samey (long, dark and winding hallways) which tend to confuse and lose the player more often than not. Hellpoints wears its inspiration on its sleeve, unfortunately it seems to run into a lot of the same issues Lords of the Fallen did by Deck13. I'll elaborate. Combat feels very stiff and slow. Weapon hitboxes dont seem to be accurate leading to whiffed attacks that go through the opponent opening the player up to being punished. Enemy tracking is also commical where enemies can start an attack and spin 180 in a flash to hit the player rendering circle strafing a non option. Player knockdown and guard break seem to also be a little too long. (I'd reccommend just ditching the shield early on because of this) Dodging also falls into this problem where the dodge has a short pause at the end that can get you killed even if you perfectly dodge the first atttack in a long combo. (Bloodborne dodging this is not) Then there are the technical issues... A short list of issues I've run into: -Missing audio when sprinting -Missing water splashing when running through water -Desynced audio for weapon attacks -Losing control of player character (character will just walk in a direction non stop) -Jump button will stop working -Menu will be stuck open blocking screen -world not rendering -falling through the ground Hellpoint has the pontential to be good, great even. Hopefully post launch support will fix the technical issues. Game balance could use a pass or 2 but the technical issues really bring the experience down.

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Posted on: October 25, 2021

Freeneedles

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 5

Extremely faithful Dark Souls ripoff

Goes beyond the average Souls-like and plays almost exactly like the more well known series (with minor mechanical improvements). It's scaled down because of the smaller studio, but nothing that you can't forgive it for. The goals of the game are a little foggy, and I'm not sure how you could progress smoothly without without looking up next steps on the internet. Aside from that, it plays like "Dark Souls in space" as advertised. I didn't run into any major bugs like some early reviews talk about, so they might be fixed.

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