Dead Cells

Literally one of my favorite games of all time but I'm leaving a negative review to protest Motion Twin's greediness and them trashing dead cells to promote their other game no-one wants to play

✔ fast past paced, snappy gameplay ✔ lots and lots of weapons and other content ✔ timer is frozen when choosing rewards or in lore areas ? investing souls (permanent currency) into unlocking weapons. It's very, very slow and grindy ? it inherits good mechanics from souls likes, like flasks... until it doesn't! On harder difficulties (Normal is too easy in general) it starts dismantling such brilliant concepts bit by bit... ? game looks good in general, sometimes there is too much visual clutter when there are too many enemies on the screen ✘ you increase your stats / life with scrolls - essentially choosing one color. Weapons also have colors. Damage is multiplicative with every point you get. This system wrecks build creation - it's only worth to invest into single color. All the other items that you find? Not viable. ✘ you are rewarded for being methodical and clearing entire levels to get all the scrolls, which evolves into busy work (there is also gold, which is quite useless) ✘ build creation seems pretty bad either way. It's just a numbers game - get enough scrolls to one-shot enemies (or at least stun them) and don't get hit ✘ ah yes, getting hit. On harder modes you get 2 shot easily. On top of that there is a Curse mechanic, which causes any damage to insta-kill you, until enough enemies get defeated. And god forbid you have a leftover curse counter on a boss... You can skip those... but then you lose scrolls. So math is against you. Exponentially. ✘ levels are pretty long causing the game to become repetitive. Remember - you need to scour levels in search of scrolls so "gotta go fast" isn't such a great option long term The game has good foundations, albeit it's too easy early on when you play as intended and demolish levels with bigger numbers. And then the higher difficulties get balanced around grind + don't get hit, ever. Build variety, replayability and general fun from trying things out suffers. Some people like this kind of gameplay and I am not one of them. I recommend for the first several hours. It currently sits at Overwhelmingly Positive, which is too high. Far too high, so I review accordingly.

English Version (french below) : The game is super cool but it is SO HARD. On the first few difficulties, it's hard but it's still manageable, after the 3rd boss cell however, it just becomes total madness. The gameplay is nice, but it kind of feels... weird to me sometimes. It doesn't feel very precise, jumps are a little weird, hits don't feel as heavy as they should in my opinion, and builds revolve a bit too much about getting the right modifiers on weapons rather than on the weapons themselves, (well it does in the sens that some weapons are just downright unusable I guess). The game is really cool though, don't get me wrong, and I especially love the Castlevania DLC (looking forward to their next Castlevania game), there's just quite a lot I didn't really like in the flow of the game. But apart from that, it has TONS of references and easter eggs to other indie games, the beheaded (protagonist) is overall pretty fun and the gameplay still does feel satisfying once you get used to it. Overall, I really recommend the game but I don't recommend trying the higher difficulties as I think that's truly when I found problems with the gameplay, in addition to very overtuned enemies and little to no healing (but in a sense, that is sort of a skill issue on my end lol) Version française : Très sympa mais c'est ARCHI dur. Sur les premières difficultées, c'est dur mais ça se fait largement, par contre à partir de la 3e cellule de boss, ça devient totalement n'importe quoi. Le gameplay est sympa, mais il est parfois un peu... bizarre pour moi. Je ne le trouve pas très précis, les sauts sont très légers, les coups ne sont pas assez impactants selon moi, et les builds tournent un peu trop autour du fait d'avoir les bons modificateurs sur les armes plus que sur les armes elles-mêmes (bon mis à part du fait que certaines armes sont juste totalement inutilisables mais c'est pas vraiment mieux). Alors attention hein, le jeu est très cool, j'adore le DLC Castlevania (j'attends avec impatience le nouveau jeu Castlevania du studio), c'est juste qu'il y a beaucoup de choses avec lesquelles j'ai eu du mal dans le gameplay du jeu. Mais bon, il a PLEIN de références à d'autres jeux indés, le protagoniste est plutôt marrant et le gameplay est quand même satisfaisant quand on s'y habitue En résumé, je recommande carrément mais je déconseilles les plus hautes difficultés, je pense que c'est là que j'ai eu du mal avec le gameplay avec les ennemis carrément abusés et le manque de soins (mais en soi, c'est aussi un manque de skill de mon côté mdr)

好玩得我头都掉了！特别喜欢恶魔城部分，超级有氛围，一直在回味阿鲁卡多，也特别特别喜欢王后 ......能不能换她把我踢下去啊

Es dificil de aprender y ese aprendizaje tiene 0 curva. Eso si, le agarras la mano y se vuelve incluso facil y adictivo. act: retiro lo dicho le subis a la dificultad y se vuelve imposible xd

Игра для мазохистов и конченых, а точнее - для меня. Графика прикольная, есть свой стиль. Игра жесть сложная, начиная с трёх клеток. Душновато из-за долгих забегов, оружия очень много, и оно имбовое - можно полностью самому выбрать стиль игры благодаря разнообразию этого самого оружия. Саундтрек и звуки отличные. Советую (точнее, для мазохистов)!!!

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