Posted on: September 3, 2020

Padanfain

Игр: 380 Отзывов: 9

Captures the feeling of Dark Souls

Some context, to help potential buyers with a decision: while I'm a big fan of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1, I never truly enjoyed the other FromSoftware games, as I felt they were missing some fundamental aspects of what made the first two Souls games great. Of all the Soulslikes I've played over the years, Hellpoint comes closest to capturing the original lightning-in-a-bottle. It's got a great setting, interesting lore, good combat (not too fast-paced) and big levels with lots of details and secrets. It never gets boring or outstays it's welcome, and there is a whole bunch of stuff to uncover. The levelling system is ok. The levels are fantastically interconnected, unfortunately not as majestic as those from the original Dark Souls, mainly due to the setting and the game taking place in a closed environment. Like with Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, the average gamer should glance at a beginner's guide before the first play-through, just to get a better sense of the game's mechanics and progression and to avoid some common progression pitfalls (like when to use Breach Synchronisers or how to access some more obscure questlines). I've not played this in multiplayer, so I can't attest to the couch or online co-op. I've noticed the game getting quite a bad rep from online critics, which actually put me off from starting the game, but there seems to be some pervading misunderstanding on what this game actually is and how it should be played. So if you're at all interested, try not to look to much into the bad reviews floating around, and give this a shot.

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Posted on: June 20, 2021

steenuil

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 1

Competent soulslike, excellent world map

If you're into the exploration part of Dark Souls this is the game for you. It features a deeply interconnected map with tons of optional areas and secrets, and exploring it and discovering all the shortcuts between areas was a joy for me. Some of the early areas look a bit bland but they're all visually distinct and memorable, and the enemies look pretty cool and the designs have a somewhat buddhist inspiration to them. The audio is not exceptional but still pretty serviceable. The combat has a few twists on the Dark Souls formula but it's more or less the same though but fair ordeal. I found it challenging enough, but you can find some items in the world that you can use to make an area harder or easier, and there's a weird system where if the area of the station you're in is currently facing the black hole it's orbiting around, the enemies will be thougher and yield better loot. Overally very solid game and deserves more attention. I got it for free out of curiosity but I really enjoyed my time with it and I'm looking forward to whatever Cradle Games is doing next.

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Posted on: April 24, 2022

Couchy2507

Владелец игры

Игр: 283 Отзывов: 1

Pretty good but rough around the edges

Combat is fun, lots of good weapons to find and use and I like how the weapons level up and get new abilities. Some moves seem more useful than others (the jump attack for heavy weapons for example) but I found uses for everything you can do with the combat system. Exploration is good. Areas are interesting to explore and have lots of hidden small areas to find. Very interconnected too, lots of different ways to get from one area to another. Some areas feel a little underdeveloped, a few rooms are big and have nothing in them, and some corridors just seem to be a way to connect two parts of the level and nothing more. Inventory system kinda sucks and is probably the thing I dislike the most in the game. It works but you can't organise it very well, there is no way to sort or rearrange items in your inventory. You can't get rid of items whenever you want, and when you get to a machine that lets you dismantle the items, it shows the entirety of your inventory in one list, showing three or 4 items at a time in the order that you acquired them (I think). It would be much better if this interface was in a grid like your main inventory, or at least sorted alphabetically. I also have started to get lag when I open the inventory now because of all the items I have I think? Really odd. If I could give 3.5 stars, that would be my actual rating. It's apparently going to get DLC, so I will probably pick that up.

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Posted on: April 18, 2023

Razka

Владелец игры

Игр: 195 Отзывов: 39

Not perfect but still good

Sure I hated the platforming, and how the Architect yeeted himself in a hole during that awful escort quest. But the main points of the game are the setting, the exploration and the combat, and those were fun all the way through. Can't comment on the story because I had a hard time understanding it all, but that may just be me being dense.

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Posted on: June 15, 2021

ValderisVandala

Владелец игры

Игр: 1398 Отзывов: 113

I love darksouls, I hate this.

The interface is just horrible, the X button on your gamepad is your item pick up and interaction button BUT the A button is the button you use to close the text prompts that pop-up when you interact with anything in the world. As you can imagine this is super annoying, and no, you can't change your buttons in this game. You can't damage enemies that are "spawning in", even though they give the responses of getting hit. Whenever you die a new enemy spawns in the area where you died, this is a mirror version of yourself, this enemy is super aggressive, insanely fast, can spot you from a mile away, has moves that you yourself are incapable of; like stopping mid-dodge roll and spinning 180 degrees to attack you just because it wants to, etc. It's a complete pain in the ass to deal with this bullshit. The "tutorial" level is a complete mess that punishes you for learning and experimenting. This darksouls-like game apparently had the idea that jumping was THE best idea ever for this kind of game and made it a main feature. Expect death pits everywhere. Even worse is that the camera does not follow the character when he jumps, you have a very high jump, this leads to the camera jumping up wildly when your character jumps onto higher platforms. But despite the jump itself not being pitiful, platforming is still terrible, because you have no mid air control over the jump other then fucking yourself over by slowing down, which won't help with jumping on small crates but will make you miss long jumps over death pits. You can't see a lot of the walls in this game and rooms feel larger then they need to be with no rewards. A lot of the game world isn't so much dark as it is simply not visible at all until you are 1 foot away from it, this leads you to hopelessly run with your face against walls trying to see if anything is there in rooms that are way bigger then they needed to be. This also goes for some of the death pits btw, good luck spotting those. -character limit-

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