Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not sure if it’s part of Winter Sale, but I’ll get Mandragora Whisper of the Witch Tree (I’ll get it on Switch though where it’s also on sale). A work colleague heartily recommended it to me and it looks like a cool game; 2d platformer with hard “soulslike” combat, but doesn’t look like it’s going too hard on the “soulslike”. Supposedly very good exploration.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 days ago
I played Mandragora this summer. Liked it quite a bit. It’s not going to change your whole world but it’s a solid Soulslike Metroidvania. Compared to other entries in the genre it’s extremely light on platforming (which for me was a plus), so keep that in mind if you play these kind of games for the precision platforming. The platforming is there as part of the level design and traversal, but don’t expect to be challenged with long sequences of difficult platforming if that’s what you’re after.
Otherwise it’s a lot of fun, the PoE-inspired skill tree is great and lets you do some fun multiclassing by moving over to adjacent skill trees to find combos and synergies. Some of the spellcasting classes can be pretty broken though, so keep that in mind if you don’t want to make the game a cakewalk. Chaos magic in particular was pretty busted, at least when I played.
Exploration is good, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Metroidvania: new stuff opens up in old areas when you unlock new traversal abilities. Also the game is very pretty to look at.
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Cool sounds good!