Hellpoint

A mediocre Dark Souls ripoff. No wonder why they give it away for free.

From what are considered Souls-like I only played Remnant from the Ashes with a friend. So this was kind of a new venture for me. I didnt play long, but played enough to know what Im getting into. Firstly, the game looks more bland than the screenshots. Maybe my settings were off, but the screenshots paint a more "colourful" picture. There is some story here, but from what Ive seen its presentation is lackluster. The gameplay in the begining is simple. You get a weapon and a shield relatively early on and fight enemies. The interface is rather clunky from my point of view, but then I found out this is geared towards consoles. Maybe its good for them, but for me it isnt that good. The explanation of the gameplay systems isnt that good either. I had to find out about the block button and dodge roll by pressing different keys, because it felt that I was lacking certain combat options. The initial enemies were pretty simple, but then I stumbled upon someone who basically one shotted me. It wasnt even a boss. By looking through some videos I found out you need to basically avoid these enemies until you level up. Run past them. I have absolutely no idea why the levels need to be designed in way where I need to run a way from enemies that are naturally on my progression path. There was no other way to go. And how many more surprises like that await me? After ddeath I was kicked back to the beginning of the game where my only checkpoint was. I consider that poor level design. On top of that you have no map for the space ship you are in. You have to memorize where you are and it can be quite confusing. Maybe I am not the target audience of this product. But since I got this for free I want to warn the average user that this for people who are willing to invest, grind, trial and error games. So unless you are in those categories, dont bother.

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The best of Darks Souls's successors

I can accept a difficult game if it gives me a chance to fight stronger opponents using precise timing (Assassins Creed) and accuracy (Butcher) or lets me slowly level up (TitanQuest), but Hellpoint gives none of that. It's only about equipping the right items because the shield is basically useless by not protecting against stun attacks and moving costs so much stamina that it's never actually useful in combat. All that's left is repeated slashing only to loose all experience points when you get crushed by the first boss. A mobile game is like repeatedly pressing a button to level up with each press. Hellpoint is like repeatedly pressing a button while nothing ever happens.