Posted on: August 1, 2020

Pyredyne

Игр: 513 Отзывов: 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

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 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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Posted on: November 26, 2021

NateJennings75

Владелец игры

Игр: 918 Отзывов: 130

Dark Souls in Space Hell

If I had to describe Hellpoint I'd say it reminds me of Dark Souls with a 'Hell in space' aesthetic. If that doesn't make sense I understand. In Hellpoint you play a "Spawn" created by what seems to be a combination of a religious cult and a galaxy spanning corporation. Think if the Davos collective spanned the entire Milky Way. You're cut loose to test your mettle in what seems to be a massive dilapidated cathedral with science labs in it floating in space. The enemies are an eclectic mix of zombies, experiments gone wrong, giant cyborg knights, spectral apparitions, and cultists with a cyber-meets-dungeon aesthetic. Combat it rather hack & slash, with quick attacks and hard slow attacks. There's a bit of a fatigue meter that replenishes between attacks, requiring timing and strategy. Weapon and armor pickups are slightly randomized. Once killed, and you'll get killed often, you keep your weapons and armor but must recollect you upgrade points and even fight a ghost of yourself to reclaim them! I haven't tried the online multiplayer yet, but will get around to it after finishing the single player campaign. Played on Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20.1 with a GTX 1050, runs great on both.

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Posted on: December 4, 2021

Chauncellor

Владелец игры

Игр: 323 Отзывов: 7

A worthwhile experience

This game lacks the finishing polishes needed to really elevate it to a masterpiece. But there's so much it does right that it's worth the time investment. Lots of discovery, delightfully little talking, fun (if a bit clunky) combat. My biggest disappointment is the sound/music. There's a lot of great sound design in this game but it's hampered by a profoundly buggy engine implementation: Sounds will haphazardly not fire, strange directional logic causes bizarre balancing issues. And some sounds are just flat-out missing, causing a truly uncomfortable set of actions that happen in complete silence. The music is almost always ambient, which is nice... but there's often no texture to accompany it. The game jarringly cuts immediately from one track to the next, completely ruins the atmosphere. Boss fights utilize the "generic midi choir" approach which is okay, but not terribly inspiring. These issues contribute to sometimes feeling a sense of flatness in the levels. The game takes place on a derelict space station and the designers have done an admirable job making the sections look pretty distinct but I feel there could have been more done with ambience and color to give the areas more life. The cryptic lore and unique designs kept me wanting to play more and see what was next. I purposefully play my Dark Souls offline because I like the lonely atmosphere - I recommend that here as well. (Played the Linux build with a DualShock 4/Xbox 360 controller. No issues.) Ultimately, I so wish there were the possibility of a big update that irons out the worst glitches and a mod to remove some of the more pointless aspects like the whole code numbering system. But it's a good game and deserves to be played - I'm kind of offended that people liken this to Dead Space; Dead Space is AAA sci-fi blandness without any soul whereas this was a unique vision and unique interpretation of gaming. The two are very different.

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Posted on: June 16, 2021

idbeholdME

Владелец игры

Игр: 733 Отзывов: 69

Decent

The game is good but quite repetitive. I completed it and finished the game with the same armor and weapon I found in the tutorial area. Haven't found a single replacement that would be an upgrade in the majority of the game (went with melee strength build). So running around for 15 hours, killing the same enemies over and over got old pretty quickly when absolutely nothing changed. The maps are maze-like in design to the extreme. Expect to get lost regularly. One terrible thing is how the ending and new game plus is handled. Once you reach 100% data collection, you are told to quickly go somewhere. I went there and to my surprise, the game just ended pretty quickly after that. There was almost no indication that you are about to finish the game. Then I got spit out at the beginning of new game plus. Problem is, I still had several areas completely unexplored, side quests unfinished, items and keys unused etc. There is absolutely no warning the game is about to end, so having everything suddenly reset with no way back led to me quitting the game for good. Don't do the same mistake I did. The game also follows the thinking of not explaining game mechanics properly = difficult. Had to look up what most stats and attributes exactly do on the internet. Stuff like this should always be in the game. Story is... there but I already don't remember much. In standard Dark Souls fashion, everything is obscure, indirect and ultimately pointless. There is no voice acting, everyone just uses a generic gibberish language and there are only very few non-aggressive NPCs. Also, ignore the reviews claiming controls are not rebindable. Changed several of them without issues , playing on a keyboard and mouse. To sum it up, if you like souls-clones, you probably will squeeze at least a playthrough out of this. I might have played through twice, but that was before I got kicked into new game plus involuntarily.. Overall, 6.5/10. Leaves a lot to be desired.

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