If my hands-on is anything to go by, most players won’t be able to stop themselves. Rather than a roguelite structure it seems to be a more traditional campaign, with each arena having a par time for players to beat if they want to challenge themselves. It’s unclear from this hands-on how deep the game can go. Pair this with a powerful spell on a long cooldown that can blow up groups of enemies, and I didn’t feel like my toolset was lacking, instead that pared-back collection of weaponry just focused the mind. I didn’t have an issue using just one, twirling through enemies as projectiles and attacks rain down from all sides. While I was only given time with one of the game’s weapons, I’m told there will be three that you can change between that will all feel distinct.
But Lysfanga has a style all of its own, and it’s hard to get across in a preview quite how smooth that movement feels, and the grin that will play across your face as you distract an enemy into the path of a dangerous explosion you might have caused several loops ago.Ĭombat is a particular joy. It’s in every fluid whack, the glowing ball of energy you can unleash to trash enemies, and the way you can dodge anime-style around an arena. That sticking power is mostly down to its reference points: developers Sand Door Studio claim they weren’t inspired by any other games, but you can feel Supergiant Games’ influence everywhere, particularly Hades and Bastion. Despite the fact you can literally control time, you have a limited amount of loops, meaning you can put yourself into a situation that has you fail an arena and have to start from scratch, or just has you sighing and reaching for the restart arena button anyway. During my preview slot, I missed out on lunch because my handler enthused about my time-traveling murder abilities, was happy to stay back and let me play more in an empty room. Whoever came up with the pitch of “ Hades but you’re playing as a collection of those time trial ghosts from PS1-era rally games” is a genius and I hope they feel suitably pleased with themselves because when I played it I could barely put it down. Suddenly, this is less about mechanical skill - although that’s still a key part as the challenge ramps up immediately even during this combat-focused preview build - and it’s more of a puzzle game as you create a clone solely to hit a switch that will allow a future version of yourself to access a door at just the right time to get in and kill a group of monsters, before pledging the rest of this time loop to joining five time-cloned versions of yourself in fighting a giant monster before you go back in time and do it all again.
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