At all times, there is a sun-dial style clock in the upper-left of the screen with four noteworthy features: a gold ring, an iron ring, and two wedges outlined in silver. The first and most immediately noticeable is The Clock. But what makes works inspired by others isn’t their similarities, it’s their differences and Hellpoint brings some interesting ideas to the table. However then playing the game on other consoles revealed just how downgraded the Switch experience is overall too – texture mapping is reduced as are framerates, to such an extent that, honestly, once I’d played the game on the Xbox Series S I really couldn’t go back to the Switch iteration.Like many games before it, Hellpoint is a Souls-like game, meaning the game mostly revolves around the player moving from safe zone to safe zone, battling against extremely dangerous foes and collecting resources to level up and will lose all of these if they die, though they can be retrieved later. I originally played the game on the Switch and was immediately struck by the long load times and occasional graphic glitches – both of which seemed to get worse the further you got into the game. However Hellpoint‘s biggest issue, in this particular case, is the sub-standard port to the Nintendo Switch. Hellpointis certainly not for casual gamers that’s for sure. For one, Hellpoint is incredibly cryptic beyond setting you up with basic instruction, Hellpointpays its cards very close to its chest, almost as if the game relies on both players previous experience with the genre and gaming in general rather than provide instruction and/or guidance… Which, given the audience for this type of game, they can probably get away with. Shame there’s no bloody map! Yes, whilst Hellpointdoes have some plus points in terms of great gameplay, theres also a number of issues. Like other action RPG’s there’s a lot of exploration to do aboard the sinister spacecraft this game is set in. SO one quick melee battle, as long as you don’t die, can refill your life and set you up for a ridiculous big battle you’ll lose in seconds and end up screaming at the TV. Speaking of gauges, the best thing about Hellpoint is the fact you can rebuild your health and magic guages by fighting. You can also equip yourself with a sheild – which is oh so important for defence in Hellpoint, Also critical to defense is the ability and propensity to roll away from enemies, although that does wear out your characters stamina gauge so cannot be used too often. Combat is the usual mix of light and heavy melee attacks at first – with the option to wield guns and this games version of a BFG later in the game (once you’ve collected enough “axioms” from defeated enemies to buy them of course). And, at the start, that’s very much how I felt the game played out, like another space-based dark and dingy sci-fi horror but then Hellpoint throws in seemingly indestructible enemies that make mincemeat of you in seconds and that familiarity, that feeling that we’ve played this game before, goes completely out of the window as you realise this is Dark Souls in space! As such you REALLY should be a Souls-like fan to get the most out of Hellpoint.Įven the combat takes a leaf out of the Souls-like genre so much so that, again, it all feels familiar. Visually Hellpointreminded me vey much of the first Dead Space game – full of murky tunnels, rusty metals and enough shadows to hide all manner of terrifying creatures. If you got frustrated with Dark Souls et al. Then it throws everything out of the window with HUGE enemies and even bigger bosses who have a tendency to kill you in seconds. When the developers of Hellpointsaid their game was inspired by the likes of Dark Souls, they really didn’t exaggerate did they? Hellpointis yet another hard as nails game, one that lulls you into a false sense of comfort, allowing you to explore and fight numerous enemies in the early going that make the game seem just on the right saide of tricky to seem fun yet challenging. Inspired by the challenging gameplay of Dark Souls, science fiction cult classics like Event Horizon, Hellpoint is a hardcore sci-fi action role-playing horror where you play as a synthetic human being, exploring an abandoned space station, fighting horrible abominations, collecting the axioms they leave behind and trying to uncover the truth behind your creation…
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