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Join NGA clan!
Looking for members both Male and Female we are NGA a medium sized clan focused on
competition and casual gaming, we are also
sponsored. You need to be 16+ to join our adult squad but we also have a junior squad for ages 15. You need access to discord and a microphone and not be in any other clans at the same time to join NGA oh by the way this is a xbox post
Anyone play?
Does any one have a ps vita I’m trying to finish some trophies on it and need three people to help.
Have y’all played omori?
I just finished it recently I’d love to talk to someone about it 🥺👉👈
When a Battle Royale meets MOBA | Eternal Return
Some characters are strangely similar to League if you ask me 🤨
https://twitch.tv/keiirokv
Basically
Hello, It's me Kytoo, The weird guy who posted blank posts with no title or message.
Yeah, So I done deleted my old account on accident :/
Help?
Edit: There is no restoring the account.
Join NGA Clan!
Looking for members both Male and Female we are NGA a medium sized clan focused on
competition and casual gaming, we are also
sponsored. You need to be 16+ to join our adult squad but we also have a junior squad for ages 10-15. You need access to discord and a microphone and not be in any other clans at the same time to join NGA oh by the way this is a xbox/pc/PS4 post add my discord if you're interested NGA Soul#0285
Oh shit!
I knew I said my last post was last, but I experienced something I need to share. So ai was fighting Traitor Lord and having a tough time. I was using a minion charm build (Grimmchild, Weaverlings) and I died. I came back later to find that the fight didn’t start! Then I realized that the minions must have kill Traitor Lord while I was dying!
Anyway, now I’m gonna go rescue cloth!
Hollow knight progress
I know I’m not special, but I made a lot of progress and I’m happy and I want to get it off my chest. So I gave up on traitor lord and beat lost kin. Then I beat the rest of the warriors dreams I had (No eyes, Galian, and markoth) Then I beat traitor lord by going back. Got white fragment. Then I beat white defender. Did the hive and heat hive night first try. Did the first 2 colosseum of fools trials. Found Grimm’s first 3 soul flames. Got pure nail. Beat white palace and got king’s soul. Beat the collector. Found every grub. Then finished for the day.
I really happy. Normally I like to finish a bunch at a time each month. Can’t wait to see what I’ll do in February!
State of Mind stream
I am not in the right state of mind recently. Gotta go and fox it with the State of Mind. Seems to be quite a chill game.
Down to join? Hop on to the stream, let's fix the state of things with state of mind.
https://www.twitch.tv/mrangryducky
Join NGA Clan!
Looking for members both Male and Female we are NGA a medium sized clan focused on
competition and casual gaming, we are also
sponsored. You need to be 16+ to join our adult squad but we also have a junior squad for ages 10-15. You need access to discord and a microphone and not be in any other clans at the same time to join NGA oh by the way this is a xbox/pc/PS4 post
Bunger? Bunger Bunger Bunger Bunger Bunger!
Watch in now
https://youtu.be/Irzay0hSqD8
This will be the reward for reaching Gold 4 or higher in Wild Rift Season 1
Original Tryndamere:
Glorious Tryndamere skin:
The skin looks absolutely dope! What do y’all think? Should we start a #RoadToGold ?
+1 
1+ hours into Pistol Whip and loving it
Just got Pistol Whip on Steam since it's currently on sale for 20% off now and I absolutely love love love the new updates especially the Heartbreaker Trilogy.
100 minutes in, 48% achievements unlocked, and finally an S rank 🤩 playing on the beat is proving to be much challenging than I anticipated.
Video will be posted tomorrow once my sore arms decide to function again 😂
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#screenshots #PistolWhip #VR #virtualreality
I don’t think it’s too bad for my first ever run through of holiday
Sorry I didn’t get the entire song my brother records these things while I play, so I don’t know what and what he doesn’t get captured
Progress on game music
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9TA63UzrDNA&feature=share
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3rIBilFpAm8&feature=share
#1
hey guys! im #1 in the indie games lounge. Can i keep it like this lol! no fr never been first place or on a leader board ever.
Update on game progress
i didnt realy have a story idea but sence yesterday i touhgt up a story. " You fall sleep one night and find youreself in a dream. Youre inside weird room that looks odly familiar. theres a door. You go to open it but find its locked. You hear ominous music playing. youre starting to feel anxiety. The music gets scarier as you go. You try different things to open the door. Its an escape room. you solve a puzzle and enter a new room. you look back after walking in the room. The door you just walked through is gone. You see a few objects that trigger memories. you get a flashback , some sort of VISION" the point of the game is youre traped in a dream and get flashbacks every so often when you see a certain object (story object) you have a vision of you in a hospital bed and a docter saying youre in a coma. you have to keep going till you find youre final memory. Then you wake up in the hospital room and you see youre family blah blah blah the game ends.
Im making a game
I am working on a game rn called Vision. rn its just an idea but i have already devoted alot of time into this project. I dont know how to code and none of my friends do either. I have asked some coders if they could help but I doubt it. If anyone wants to help feel free. This project is still in the beggining stages so anything made now will most likely be changed later but heres the theme and logo of the game
https://youtu.be/9TA63UzrDNA
The Homeless Experience
We'll be playing CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience today's variety stream!
🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒
https://twitch.tv/vausekv
Don't Starve Together - Part 2
Previous post: https://moot.us/lounges/274/boards/1302/posts/5109177
I died in my previous game and I have to start all over. This time after watching a few guides about winter survival on youtube (Thanks to beard777 for the honest guides). I managed to start it from scratch.
Autumn was fine and I was busy collecting more resources to survive the first winter in this game which my objective. I was so lucky and found some good resources near my spawn and set up a base in between two biome land types so I can harvest wood logs, straw, wool, manure, forest resources. My past experiences helped me get winter survival tools and I just survived winter successfully and then the time came for the boss fight which I never know until a viewer said about that I have to fight a boss at the end of Winter. To be honest, I was ill-prepared for the boss fight with just a spear and one wood log armour suit and I died instantly fighting the boss and it was disheartening that I have to start all over again. Then came the help from a viewer who informed that I could rollback the game server to previous days so I need not lose my progress and so I tried my best to defeat the Winter boss but unfortunately, I can't win the Boss in a straight forward fight.
Finally, I have to resort to internet search to figure out an easy way to defeat the Winter boss. The trick was so simple, "walk the boss to the dense forest area" and once he tramples the trees down, the 'tree guards' in the game would get activated. Did the same way, the rest is just vibing and chilling. Tree guards took down the boss and I have to collect the loot dropped from the defeated boss. Easy? No, Unfortunately, penguins which were present near the boss fight zone ate most of the loot. XD
Then the spring jumped in and now, trying to survive the summer without burning any stuff built in the base camp. As usual, my Sea of Thieves practice, I wanted to set sail in the oceans so I just constructed a makeshift ship. Let me see what DST has to offer in its seas.
Don't Starve Together
Yesterday, I tried Don't Starve Together. For the record, I had only 8 hours in this game and I never really invested a lot of time playing this #indie Game as I struggled a lot but still, I want to try it just to have some justice to Developers as they added a lot of content for building a good survival base in the wildness. To help me in this quest, who got 1300+ hours in Don't Starve Together joined me to help a bit (indeed, it was a lot of help, not a bit).
We successfully found a good camping spot near the Pig King and set up our base camp with a campfire, Science machines, a think-tank, icebox, crackpot and so on! I have to really thank the person who joined me as he was so kind, to bear with my noobness. Finally, I got a hang of how to get stuff done and started building! Finally when I figured out how to build a boat/Raft to cross the ponds but unfortunately, I PLACED IT IN A SPOT FROM WHICH I CAN'T ACCESS THE SEA and then warded off the surprising hound raids.
Finally, after all my blunders, I felt I slowed down my partner in base development. LOL. But the answer was a surprise. I hope I will complete it with full fledge self-sustaining survival base. Such a huge piece of cake for me to chew.
Spellbreak | Chapter 1: The Spellstorm
Haven’t played for a week or so, but now I’m very much interested in the new update. #PlaySpellbreak 🧙♂️
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“We have to stop it.
But in order to do that…we need you.”
Welcome to Chapter 1: The Spellstorm!
CHAPTER 1 FEATURES:
* Play on Steam - Log-in to Spellbreak on Steam within two weeks after launch to earn the Hinterland outfit!
* Unravel the Mystery of the Spellstorm - The full Chapter System begins with Chapter 1. Prove yourself in new story quests as you aid the Order of the Vowbreakers and harness unheard of power.
* Chapter Key & Bundles - Enhance your Chapter progression with reputation bonuses and earn 50 levels of rewards, gold, and exclusive cosmetics.
* Discover the New Deadmoss - Castle Bogmore and its surrounding region has been completely overhauled with vastly improved environments and new points of interest.
* Incredible New Cosmetics - Be the Breaker you’ve always wanted to be.
* Better Matchmaking - *Coming in a hotfix soon after Chapter 1 launch*, matchmaking will happen before you load into the island and feature improvements making it much faster and more seamless to get into a game with better matchups.
Trailer Link: https://youtu.be/0woL1K09q0E
Working out in VR with a banger
Also, just got a fitness/smart watch called the Mi Band 4 and absolutely loving it. Now I get to track all of my VR workouts :3 been spending my time in VR playing Audio Trip this whole afternoon. Red is probably my favourite track at the moment. The environment gives me a little bit of Cyberpunk vibes with the red and blue "gates".
It was kinda dark and I only had my phone on me since my camera batteries died lol but just imagine that this is much clearer than it is and have a nicer tone than it does, okay? 🤣
#AudioTrip #miscposts #photography
+1 Assemble With Care
When you fix incredibly intimate things, you reveal a facet of their lives that maybe they don't even see themselves.
https://twitch.tv/vausekv
Open Roads • Teaser Trailer
With as much as I’ve loved Fullbright’s previous games, this is definitely something I’m looking forward to...
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“Open Roads is the next game from Fullbright, the award-winning creators of acclaimed story games Gone Home and Tacoma. Coming soon to consoles and PC.
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget. Starring Keri Russell and Kaitlyn Dever.”
Link: https://youtu.be/bGngJgAXM6Y
Sunless Sea stream
Today is the day Cyberpunk is being released. Let's do some journalism: play something else and talk to each other.
Yep. It's not Cyberpunk stream. But at least we can have a chat. Hop in to say hi. It's Sunless Sea time
https://www.twitch.tv/mrangryducky
First Impressions: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is the remastered version of the first 2 games in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. I played both of the originals back in the day and I consider Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 to be one of the best games of all time. Does the remaster live up to the legacy?
For those who have never played a THPS game, I’ll briefly dive into some of the basics. Each level takes place in a different area such as a warehouse or school and has its own unique series of challenges for you to complete. These challenges include earning trick points, collecting the letters S-K-A-T-E, and doing various unscrupulous activities like destroying “no skateboarding allowed” signs. Because each run only lasts for 2 minutes, you’ll typically have to replay a level several times in order to complete all of the challenges.
In terms of gameplay the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is exactly what players have come to expect from the THPS series. There are plenty of places to explore, secrets to find, and jaw-dropping tricks to pull off. Unlike the original games, the remaster includes features that came later in the series such as the ability to revert. This is definitely a welcome addition as it makes chaining together tricks much more satisfying and avoids any awkwardness of having different control schemes between the 2 games.
The remaster, as expected, also introduces many entirely new features as well. Aside from the predictably improved graphics (which are quite nice), the game has introduced things like new challenges and a global leveling system. I disliked both of these things. While some players may be happy to have some new content, it’s almost entirely artificial and honestly annoying to interact with. For example, it’s pretty easy to complete a ton of challenges at once, especially early in the game. When turning in the challenges however, you have to turn them in manually one by one. To be clear, these are very different than the in-level challenges and are really boring things that you complete unintentionally just by playing the game. This makes it an annoyingly laborious process and ultimately became a feature that I declined to interact with.
While Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 does offer some improvements such as its expanded roster with modern day skaters like Nyjah Houston and Shane O’Neill, there really isn’t much here to bolster it over the originals aside from graphics. That’s not necessarily a bad thing considering that the originals were so good, but overall most of the new features served more as distractions than anything else. I would have much preferred to see quality of life improvements such as cutscene skips and integrated tooltips for challenges that require a specific trick. It’s still Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater; it’s still good. It’s just not quite as good as I had hoped.
Ryan’s Rating: 4/5
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 retails for $40 and is available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
+3 
Final Chapter of Tell Me Why
No more cliffhangers please and thank you.
🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒
https://twitch.tv/vausekv
Good indie game here
https://youtu.be/PWPkgNJ5wgI
Sunless Sea stream
Sunless times require Sunless Sea travel. And occasional eternal damnation with a slight chance of returning home safely
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Tell Me Why, the same publishers as Life Is Strange and I'm excited
Hopefully this doesn't disappoint me like Life is Strange 2...
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His laugh is funnier than the clip | Outlast
I played Outlast with a friend sitting next to me for moral support because I haven't played it before and was too scared. Turns out you can bug the game out if you're stupid enough 🤣
P/S. This clip was from before I had my own VR headset.
#clips #Outlast
Continuing playthrough on Shadow of the Tomb Raider
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First Impressions: TFT Fates
As many of you probably already know, Teamfight Tactics is a League of Legends-themed auto battler game originally based on Dota Auto Chess. I first reviewed TFT near the start of this year but much of what I wrote no longer applies now after the recent “Fates” update brought significant changes to the game. Most of this review will focus on Fates itself, but I’ll also explore the game’s evolution as a whole and whether or not TFT has improved as much as I hoped it would when it first launched last year.
Before diving into Fates, I’ll briefly explain TFT’s general gameplay for anyone who is unfamiliar with the auto battler genre. Your goal is to outlast your opponents in last-man-standing style gameplay by defeating your enemies in a series of 1v1 matches. These matches are automatically fought by your arsenal of champions each combat round. You can equip your champions with items to make them more powerful as well as combine 3 copies of the same champion in order to level it up. Champions also have unique traits and in order to be successful, it’s necessary to build your team composition with different champions that share the same or synergistic traits.
Now that we’ve got the basics out of the way, let’s dive into Fates. Unlike Galaxies, which included several different universes each with its own set of rules, Fates only has one universe and instead features “Chosen” champions. Although Chosen champions cost 3 times as much gold as their normal variants, they automatically start off at the 2-star level, have bonus health, and provide a boost to one of their traits. Chosen champions are very powerful but you can only have one at any given time. This means that it is imperative to select your Chosen champion wisely, as they are often the most important unit on your side of the battlefield, but it’s important to note that there is a significant amount of RNG involved so getting a good Chosen champion requires much more strategy than it initially appears.
In comparison to Galaxies, Fates is more accessible for novice players but also more difficult. Because there’s only one major mechanic in Fates rather than the several different universes in Galaxies, new players have fewer curveballs to worry about while they’re trying to learn the basics. With that said however, the game also loses some much-welcome variation which can lead to things becoming stale. Furthermore, this lack of variation makes it so that the meta is much more refined which means that newer players will likely find themselves losing frequently. Not only that, but players will likely be unable to learn much from their losses because of the difficulty in discerning what exactly is “working” and what isn’t. This saps the fun out of exploration and means that players will likely be better off researching the meta and looking up what the best comps are.
As far as TFT as a whole is concerned, the game has certainly made some improvements but I’m honestly pretty surprised at how few there have been. One major improvement is that you can now see item recipes by examining the items you own, but unfortunately this feature is partially disabled during the carousel rounds when it would be at its most useful. Furthermore, you still can’t sell champions during the carousel rounds which makes it so that you can end up with bad item combinations if you happen to grab a champion that levels up one of your units. These sorts of things make the game continue to feel unfinished and are issues I certainly thought would be fixed by now when I initially reviewed the game at the start of the year.
While Fates does bring many notable changes to the game and TFT as a whole has seen improvements, Teamfight Tactics hasn’t done anything significant enough to entice players who aren’t already interested in auto battlers. It feels like the game’s quality-of-life progression has been slow and I found Fates to be less exciting than Galaxies overall. If you’re a fan of Teamfight Tactics or auto battlers in general then Fates is at least worth checking out, but I think the game continues to be too inaccessible to warrant attention from players who aren’t already interested in the genre.
Ryan’s Rating: 3.5/5
Teamfight Tactics is free to play and is available on PC, Android, and iOS.
You can check out the Moot TFT lounge here:
As well as my original review of the game here:
+4 What do you do when you've transformed into a bug?
Live now playing Metamorphosis, a Kafka-inspired game
https://twitch.tv/VauseKV
Until now, I'm not quite sure how to solve this level 🤣
I did this playthrough on stream and still have no clue if what I did here is even "legal" 🤣
https://clips.twitch.tv/BombasticDependableSamosaEleGiggle
Superliminal is anything but stressful. Sure, it is a puzzle game, but the atmospheric music and (for the most part) light-hearted environment more than makes up for it. Sure you'll get to the point where wanna-be GLaDOS takes her mockery of you a little too far, and the environment becomes somewhat eerie, it's only a small portion of what the game has to offer.
To me, it's one of those games that slowly takes you on a journey of self-discovery without explicit hinting at it. So, believe me when I say that your perspective will be challenged during, and brought to consciousness after you've completed the game.
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#Superliminal #clips
I'm loving Hollow Knight 🖤
Anyone else playing it because it's free this month for PlayStation? 😃
I might be addicted to chasing full combos
This is my other favourite song in Audica. The mapping is super fun and I especially love this part in the GIF!
Full video here: https://youtu.be/7Xr4ZV0webg
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#Audica #VR #virtualreality
(Hollow Knight) Kingdom’s Edge hornet tips?
I’m fighting sentinel Hornet, and I’m having trouble.
I was hoping for tips to make the fight easier. A charm load-out would be good too. I only have 5 charm notches, and 6 masks. I also have no vessels. My current charm load-out is dreamshield and longnail. I don’t have mark of pride.
First Impressions: The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia is a strange, genre-mashing game where you play as Ray Bibbia, a private exorcist who uncovers a great mystery while banishing demons for work. Best described as a typing game with bullet hell mechanics, The Textorcist doesn’t sound like something I would normally be eager to play, but the premise is so unbelievably strange and the game is free right now on the Epic Games Store so I decided to give it a try.
In The Textorcist you play as Ray Bibbia, a grumpy old man who runs a private exorcism business after having a falling out with the Holy Church. Although the Holy Church has complete rule over the kingdom, it’s clear that many citizens do not like the Holy Church and that there is likely more than meets the eye regarding the organization. As Ray answers house calls and goes around banishing demons for his business, he will quickly discover many secrets that will link his troubled past, depressing present, and uncertain future.
In order to banish demons, Ray has to recite various phrases from his Bible in order to shoot out “Hollets” or holy bullets. In order to get Ray to recite the phrases, you have to literally type them out letter by letter on a keyboard. At the same time, the enemy will attack you with bullet-hell type attacks which you have to dodge while typing. If you get hit, your Bible will fly out of your hand and you’ll have to go run to wherever it lands to pick it up. If you get hit again without your Bible, you’ll lose a life. If you lose all of your lives in one battle, it's game over.
Aside from the overall game mechanics, reciting the phrases has its own mechanics as well. Each phrase is broken up into a line and each line into a word. If you type a letter wrong then you go back a letter, which can make errors costly, but fortunately you never go back a word from mistyping no matter how many errors you take. With that said however, when you get hit and your Bible flies out of your hand, it has a timer. When that short timer runs out, your progress for the entire phrase will be reset and you’ll have to start over from the very first line. This makes the game a constant battle between risking taking a hit to try to type a phrase quickly versus playing it safely and slowly typing a phrase over time.
In terms of story The Textorcist is pretty mundane. It does have a unique setting with the exorcism theme as well as minor twists and turns throughout, but overall the story feels very recycled. Furthermore, in order to do anything in this game you have to type it out. For example, to examine something you have to literally type "examine." This makes it so that engaging in the lackluster story is not only boring, it's annoying. It doesn’t help that the writing itself is also awful and occasionally verges on illiterate. Fortunately the game does have some pleasant art and genuinely good music, so at least your senses are indulged while trudging through the tedious text.
There’s really not much to say about The Textorcist. It’s a game where you type gibberish while dodging attacks. If that sounds fun to you then you’ll probably like this game; if not then you probably won’t. While I found the strange mix to provide some surprisingly adrenaline-pumping boss fights, the game as a whole wasn’t interesting enough for me to recommend it as anything more than a novelty. With that being said, The Textorcist is free right now on the Epic Games Store so if you’re looking for something different to try, you have nothing to lose by giving this a shot.
Ryan’s Rating: 2/5
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia retails for $15 and is available on PC. It is also available for free on the Epic Games Store from now until November 19. As long as you claim the game by November 19, it will stay in your library forever.
+4 TOP 100 ON A RANKED MAP | BEAT SABER
I've stepped away from playing Beat Saber competitively for a year now. Occasionally, I start picking it up again for a day or two before shelving it yet again. I no longer play it daily and it has become one of those games I revisit once in awhile so I'm really happy that I'm still able to pull off a good score on a tougher map!
In case the video doesn't work, here's the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/H6ATUH9Iozg
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Going live
Catch me on twitch trying phasmaphobia for the first time :).
Get 8 VR games for only $17 on Humble Bundle
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My personal favourite is I Expect You to Die from Schell Games, the same guys who released Until You Fall recently! It's got a good story, great puzzle elements and a light, whimsical approach to saving the world.
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First Impressions: Dead Cells
Dead Cells is an action platformer "rougevania" where you play as an undead prisoner who ventures through increasingly difficult levels while fighting enemies, collecting items, and uncovering secrets along the way. Dead Cells has earned widespread critical acclaim and combines two of my favorite genres in metroidvanias and roguelikes so I’ve been eager to finally give this game a shot. Does Dead Cells live up to the hype?
It’s difficult to fit Dead Cells into any one genre but it’s clear to see why the developers describe the game as a “roguevania.” The minute-to-minute gameplay is essentially like this: you do some light platforming while killing (or avoiding) the hordes of enemies in your path. There are secret areas, hidden missions, helpful items, and you learn new permanent abilities. Sounds like a metroidvania right? At the same time however, there are multiple roguelike elements including procedurally generated levels, a wide array of tools and weapons to discover, and most importantly: permanent death.
Although there are some minor story elements to Dead Cells, this game is much more about the gameplay than the story. Your character is mute, but it is quickly revealed that you have attempted this journey and failed time and time again. While your ultimate goal is still to survive to the end and escape the prison, you are now working with “The Collector” to discover blueprints and artifacts in order to make use of your deaths. In exchange, The Collector will give you access to abilities and items that can be used on future runs.
The gameplay in Dead Cells is pretty unique. It’s much heavier on combat than it is on platforming, but the game highly encourages exploration because of all the useful things you can discover. For example, in Dead Cells you don’t earn experience to level up your stats. Instead, you have to find scrolls which you can use to both improve your damage in one combat style and boost your total health. You also heal completely at the end of each level, which means that you don’t have to worry about losing some health exploring as long as you don’t actually die.
While I enjoyed the way that Dead Cells combined its various genres overall, there were some instances in which certain aspects felt at odds with each other. For example, I mentioned that the game heavily encourages exploration, but it eventually got tiresome because I frequently reached dead ends that I couldn’t pass without unlocking a relic or completing some unknown special event. I encountered plenty of notable secret-type things on every run, but it was never clear whether or not I was supposed to be able to complete it or not. Furthermore, Dead Cells implements a speedrunning aspect which makes it so that you’re encouraged to finish the first levels as quickly as possible. Ultimately I found myself ignoring all the enemies and just blitzing through the levels in order to gain access to the extra rewards and reach the bosses faster.
Dead Cells might be a weird mix in some ways but it is definitely a fun game. It does have some awkward aspects and the different game mechanics do get in the way of each other at times, but for the most part I found the speedrunning roguelike-metroidvania genre clash to be very satisfying. While a lot of the combat is optional and there aren’t that many different weapons in the game, I really enjoyed the combat system overall and was surprised at the variety of different playstyles I could successfully pull off. Dead Cells will definitely appeal to fans of both roguelikes and metroidvanias, and although it’s not a perfect game, it certainly lives up to the hype.
Ryan’s Rating: 4.5/5
Dead Cells retails for $25 and is available on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
+4 Twitch
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