Recent reviews by Plip

I think they got something here. I thought I would be done with Deathtrap after beating the four bosses. I have over doubled the playtime since. Once the first couple patches came up and barricades got rebalanced, I’ve been having a blast solo.

It’s the OMD you know and love, but now a Rougelite. You start a run by picking one of three maps, each with its own debuff that will carry forward, and once you beat it you continue the process. As difficulty ramps up, so do the challenges you face. Maybe you can live with Orcs doing 50% more damage, or sometimes turning into Skeletons on death, but only the map would actively choose to have Goblin Sappers on Every Round! It’s a loop I really dig, it’s like digging your own grave.

The War Mages this time are fun to mess around with. You got a good variation: A new duo of War Mage and Sorceress, two variations of melee, Harlow who is more like Max in 2, and also Mac is there I guess! It took me a little bit to warm up to them, but I think they make for a good mix. The melee might feel strange in the lobby, since your character stops moving, but that’s because they home in on enemies (and thus remain standstill when none are around). If none of these are to your taste though, there might be an old friend hiding in the lobby.

The game still needs a bit of fixing. There are some minor bugs and graphical hiccups that I don’t think should be a priority, but one time the Orcs did decide that they had enough of my barricade shenanigans and just… chose to walk through them? This happened on the museum map, and only once in 50 hours. I haven’t been able to reproduce it, but if you see in the preview that the ghosts all commingle on one spot they shouldn’t… try to cover it up?

There is also one comment I’ve seen a lot: More maps. The maps are really nice, but you will replay them a lot. Some switch up the location of the Rift (thing you want to protect) which is nice, but if you want the optimal debuffs you might play the same map three times in a run. They are working on more, but it will most likely be a bit? An idea could be to make more smaller maps, similar to larger maps in the older games, but that could go against what they’re aiming for.

Ultimately, I think I love this game? I’m happy they are willing to experiment with OMD. Unchained was a cool idea too! But this is more my speed. I want to see this game continue to grow.

Psst. Robot. If I can be super greedy: Just throw some Unchained in there. Like Stinkeye, or Deadeye, or someone with both their eyes. I know it doesn’t make sense. No one will mind!

This game is a BLAST!
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The best thing I can say is that I desperately wanted more. It plays great, the stages are beautiful and have some really nice setpieces, the different forms are fun (even if it took me a while to fully grasp one of them)... It’s everything I wanted from it, and I hope Sonic Team keeps the moment up.

Maybe give Blaze another shot. She deserves it.

Game is just chock-a-block full of Skeletons but mostly in one area.

You can turn your goblins into even smaller goblins 10/10

The game is incredibly fun, it feels like a more realized Portia, but the game still has quite a few small snags and bugs. For example: Suddenly becoming acquaintances with a character that is a Huge Spoiler if you look up who you suddenly became friends with. Still, I can look past these things, as I find the overall gameplay loop and the characters to be worth the minor issues.

any game that lets you summon skellies is pretty rad

Toe to tip this is a complete banger

so it might be like the best game ever made but one issue is that when you talk to some people as a bear they force you out of it and i think thats a mistake hope they fix it in the next hotfix :)

Fishing Minigame out of 10