Posted on: June 22, 2021
ryanjbury
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Sounds terrible; actually brilliant!
I shouldn't like this game at all. If somebody described the game to me, it would sound terrible. In fact, it's superb, and the first game I've rated 5/5 on GOG. A lot of tile-based adventure/dungeon-crawler type games have quite fun strategic combat and exploration, but get weighed down by constant repetetive grinding, inventory management and stat-shuffling. Loop Hero makes the bold decision to remove all of the fun strategic combat and exploration, and leave *only* the grindy stat-shuffling and inventory management part of the game. Your character walks round and round in circles fighting things, while you just watch and level up their skills and equipment. You don't even get to choose where they go or what they do in combat. Sounds awful, right? Actually, as it turns out, all that stat-management is way more fun when it's not weighed down by all the exploration and strategic decision-making. What's left is super-addictive, charming one-handed gameplay that'll keep you gently occupied for hours on end finding the optimal ways to utilise tiles, abilities and equipment to buff your hero enough to beat the game's bosses, progress the story and unlock shiny new things. Best of all, the whole game has clearly been made with love and care. The graphics and music are pleasant, the interface is complete, and even the writing is surprisingly good. I've never played another game like Loop Hero, so it's hard to know what to compare it with. It has stripped-down elements from several different genres while not quite falling neatly into any particular category. I'm sure that other games will copy it in due time, but for now, it's quite unique to the best of my knowledge, which is an impressive feat in itself. On its own terms though, it succeeds beautifully. It could be expanded, but it's hard to imagine any significant ways that it could be improved. If you think it might be something you'd enjoy, then you probably will. Recommended whole-heartedly. :)
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