I will be completing Eldest Souls and penning the review for the site, so we will have much more time later to get into the nuances of combat and boss design. For some, this may be a bit too much to sustain as they grow more challenging. This isn’t a negative, but every fight in the game is a challenging boss fight.A few of the puzzles required me to swap my spec out multiple times to complete them, this seemed a bit cumbersome.The fonts are so small, playing Handheld or on the Nintendo Lite may be hard for some.
Still, I noticed a few things that players should be aware of: There was far less I disliked about Eldest Souls than what I liked. You can restart a boss fight immediately upon death without any backtracking needed.The pixel art is just fabulous and looks great on-the-go or big screen.A variety of builds are available and character development looks intriguing.Some positive things that stood out in the initial few hours: I am not very far into the game at this writing, but I look forward to enjoying it thoroughly. There is much that I already like about the combat, character development, and exploration. It’s a great feeling to see the boss defeated screen, no matter how many times it happens. I know the challenge will put some off, but if you are up for it, this little darling of an action RPG seems poised to take you to pixelated heaven. For now, know the first few hours of Eldest Souls deliver a lot of what I believe fans of the genre want from a stamina-based melee action title. I have so much to learn and discover that I am quite excited to see just how cool I can make my character. I want to be clear, I’m just scratching the surface of the combat and character development. You can respect on the fly if your old build isn’t suitable for the next challenge. You will be able to customize your character to the playstyle that suits you the most for any given boss. Well it’s a good thing I like this mechanic because there is no other way to heal at first.īut that’s one of the cool things about Eldest Souls: you can respec at any time and different boss souls allow you to customize your moves with different effects, buffs, debuffs, combo moves, extra heals, etc. This is one of my favorite risk/reward mechanics in a melee action game: attack instead of dropping back to and you don’t need to heal anymore if you pull it off.
I particularly enjoyed the fact that fully charged swings of your obsidian sword will put you into a bloodlust state that means attacks leech life back. Now for the good stuff: the combat in Eldest Souls is intuitive and has lots of nice touches anyone familiar with the genre will appreciate. This is the part of the story where the player comes in, arriving as one lone soul who represents a last hope for humanity to overcome the horrors of the cathedral. Eventually, this fallen cathedral became such a source of evil that humanity rallied together and attempted a great (and failed) crusade to infiltrate and abolish it. Then imagine one of the gods – a malevolent one at that – took over the cathedral where the gods were imprisoned in and started subjecting them to twisted experiments. I’m going to leave out a few of Eldest Souls’ significant plot points so I don’t spoil too much, but imagine a world where long ago the gods were conquered and locked away. According to Costantini and Barsotti, Counter is also the hardest one to master, and messing the timing can make the skill deal no damage.This is the game’s second boss, and his second phase is pretty cool! Lastly, the third ability is called Counter, which is a defensive skill that works in a similar way to Dark Souls' parry. The second branch features Berserker Slash, a powerful melee attack that deals the most damage out of the three skills, and it also grants a buff called Berserk that improves damage further.
The first branch comes with the Windslide skill, which is a dash ability that also shoots homing projectiles to damage enemies, and of course grants players the opportunity of having a more mobile build. Eldest Souls features three different branches with their own titular skill, and then each of those branches into two more trees, making for plenty of build variety and options to optimize them. While Eldest Souls doesn't throw in the mix tons of different gear bits of increasing rarity, whereas Path of Exile has plenty of Unique items to choose from to make interesting combinations, the upcoming indie title awards players with talent points and Shards after every boss kill.
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