Once you’ve experienced an attack a couple of times you’ll know how to dodge them every time. Each boss has specific patterns to how they move and attack. To briefly go back to my review of Astlibra Revision for a moment, I struggled a lot with the bosses, feeling like I needed to do a lot of grinding and leveling before some bosses, even respec-ing my stats to make sure I had access to one or two specific skills to even put a reasonable dent into a boss, and even then a lot of the time a fight felt like luck was the deciding factor in whether or not I could dodge the bosses' attacks and survive.Įlderand is the exact opposite. This especially applies to bosses, which ended up being my favorite aspect of the game. Even minor enemies will mow you down if you’re not patient and learn their movements and attack patterns. This is not a game where you can just rush in recklessly and attack at will. However, one piece of advice is to not do what I started out doing and just hacking and slashing at anything that moves. The controls feel very fluid and the gameplay works well. Even with this weirdness, the map system is very simplified and easy to navigate and understand how it works. Once you have the item to pass them you have to remember which of those red dots are the barriers you haven’t gone back to yet. This can make things a tad confusing when it comes to those impassable barriers you’ll come across. That can be pretty useful, except for the fact that once you’ve done what needs to be done at one of those locations, the red dot will remain even though it’s no longer technically a point of interest. Points of interest will usually be either story-related locations or barriers that you need a special item to pass through, and each area typically has at least two or three of these locations. When you pull up the map it’ll conveniently show you colored dots for save points, vendors, portals, and points of interest. This looser freedom did have a bit of a drawback though. At any point I felt like I had two or three different areas I could explore before getting to the point where I needed a certain ability to continue. Elderand is mostly like that, with certain areas blocked off by needing a certain item to give you new abilities, but a lot of the time you have a bit more freedom to roam around the various areas.
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You’ll also find and be able to buy certain materials to be able to upgrade your weapons and armor, so you have plenty of ways to customize your gear as you see fit to accommodate your playstyle, plus you can have two separate loadouts that you can swap between on the fly.Ī lot of Metroidvania-style games will let you go anywhere you want, but almost all paths will be blocked off by something that requires you to obtain a new weapon or item later, and you have to find the one path that you can traverse. The armor you find can also have various properties beyond just stat boosts such as immunities to various status effects or causing damage to enemies on contact. Meanwhile, whips and daggers have average attack but can be swung at a faster rate. Swords tend to be the strongest weapons, while staves have minimal attack power but let you cast ranged spells. The weapons range from swords to staves to whips and daggers, each with their pros and cons. As you progress you’ll pick up various weapons, armor, and other items that will help you in your journey. You begin the game in a tutorial area that helps you get used to most of the game’s mechanics. Throughout your journey you’ll learn more about Elderand, Sserthris, and some sort of cult that you’ll occasionally run into. You play as that mercenary and your objective is to travel around the different areas of Elderand, find Sserthris, and take him out. One day a Mercenary is found, one who is potentially capable of eradicating that evil. In Elderand a legacy of evil has been forged by a tyrant known as Sserthris.
How good is the game to already warrant that distinction? Very, very good. Then there’s Elderand which, even though it’s only February, is probably already on the list of my favorite games of 2023. Some of them are fun, some are hit and miss. Then again Metroidvania is one of my favorite genres, so they tend to come naturally to me and I’ll check out just about any that come my way. It seems like I’ve reviewed several Metroidvania-style games over the years as time passes I've become GN's "Metroidvania guy".
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