A malicious and cruel king once ruled the land and terrorized all who faced him. He along with the fabled arch to Archvale have become the fodder for ghost stories and passed down myths. All that remains of him are the Undying; beings whom the king cursed with immortality to live out their eternity...
A malicious and cruel king once ruled the land and terrorized all who faced him. He along with the fabled arch to Archvale have become the fodder for ghost stories and passed down myths. All that remains of him are the Undying; beings whom the king cursed with immortality to live out their eternity in his prisons.
You and you alone can defeat the Undying and rid the world from the dark shadow the king has left. Journey across diverse regions, looting and crafting your way to better weapons and equipment. Through these upgrades you will be able to succeed against the host of enemies that await you and stand between you and the truth about the said-to-be-mythic arch to Archvale.
Key Features:
Play Your Way. Augment your character via badges, allowing you to create a build that suits your playstyle.
Mastery is Key. Skill-based bullet hell combat will put your weapons of choice to the test and require precision and speed to succeed.
Build Your Arsenal. Craft over 200 weapons and armor using items gathered from the environment and from slaying enemies.
Explore the World. A host of enemies across diverse environments and classic-inspired dungeons will take you across an ever changing map where you will find unique resources needed to complete your journey.
Discover the Truth. Uncover the dark lore of the world on your quest to unearth the arch to the fabled world of Archvale.
Video review: https://youtu.be/p8fn6FJVs1A
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* Great enemy/boss variety
* Satisfying progression
* Many different melee, ranged and magic weapons
* Crafting and upgradable weapons
* No skillpoints (easy to switch to another build)
* Further customization with badges (perks)
* Diverse biomes with different resources
* Beautiful pixel graphics
* Extremely polished
* 3 difficulty options
* Couch co-op
Good game that is a cross between a bullet hell game and an action adventure game with light rpg elements.
The progression is very open-handed and you can access the entire map from the beginning. There is an expected order to traverse the map in terms of increasing difficulty, but you can go out of order in which case some map areas will feel brutally hard and others trivially easy.
The combat is good, although having most kinds of enemies shooting balls of energy feels a bit weird at times. Often, the screen will be is so busy that you'll have to forget dodging everything (especially with a limited number of dodges that are rather short in duration) even during boss battles leading to interesting split second tactical decisions between focusing on offense (concentrate on landing hits) and defense (concentrate on dodging), often quickly alternating between the two).
The platforming (dashing around from a top-down perspective while avoiding falling in lava/water/charms) will engage you though the controls are not quite crisp enough that you'll feel completely in control, especially with the diagonal dashes.
The are also purely defensive optional challenges where you'll have to perfectly dodge everything to get a reward and for the most part they are well done (maybe a little hardcore for casual gamers), though the rewards are not very enticing unfortunately (but the challenges are still a blast).
Beyond the character getting some permanent boosts as you progress (permanent defense boost, permanent hp boost, number of potion boosts, very few damage boosts), you'll also find better equipment and medals with enough variety that you'll get a slightly different gameplay feel depending on your picks.
In terms of story, its ok. Your character is a strong and silent god slayer. Done before, but at least its not cringe worthy.
So in short, it is a fun game that I recommend. It might not blow you away, but it should engage you for about 10-15 hours or so.
Great coop game! Difficult, but very enjoyable.
Currently lacks some quality of life stuff and has some bugs, hence the 4/5. Hopefully next patch will bring it to 5!
I only bought this to playthrough with a friend of mine. Unfortunately, if you want to play through this via local multiplayer, one person as to be on a keyboard while the other has to use a controller. There isn't a way to play this where 2 people can use a controller (or with 2 keyboards if you wanted). I googled this issue and apparently its a bug on the Steam and Xbox Gamepass version as well. A Reddit post said that a patch was supposedly issued to the Steam and Gamepass version to fix this. However, another Reddit post said the problem is still there, and regardless, this issue is still in the GOG version and I've not seen or heard anything about fixing this.
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