![]() The castle is divided up into over half a dozen areas, each with around a dozen screens, creating an impressively large dungeon. Lighting the torches along your way becomes critical, and a neat way to gauge your progress through each zone. Each room is darkened and made up of multiple levels filled with ladders, platformes, and enemies. The dungeon is made up of individual rooms that take up a full screen. While the story isn’t exactly as captivating as even the relatively simplistic tales in Castlevania or Metroid (or even Diablo), the gameplay makes up for it. Their respect for each other gradually builds over the course of the adventure, and by the end I grew to love Zera – murderous tendencies and all. ![]() In one of the better nerd-references, their relationship is compared to X-Men‘s Xavier and Magento. Zera provides a nice foil for our hero to play off of, as he’s constantly trying to get the hero killed so he’ll be freed. Dubbed Zera, the shadow fails to possess our hero (who probably has a name but I don’t remember it at all) and winds up trapped within his body, becoming an unwilling companion to our adventures in the castle. The one saving grace with the trite story (besides the surprisingly great finale and ending) is the shadowy creature that possesses the hero early on. It grows tiresome a few hours in, and this is a 20 hour game. He spends the entire first half of the game convinced that he’s taken some hallucinogenic drugs, and constantly spouts not-so-clever nerd-culture references at every opportunity. So while I lack any nostalgia for the gameplay, I found it inventive and interesting, despite some annoying difficulty spikes, immature, reference-filled writing, and a boring art style.Īs you can quickly surmise from the banner image, our snarky hero is a modern day 20-something transported into a fantasy dungeon. It feels like it utilizes a classic gameplay formula of meshing together elements of Metroid and Diablo in a 2D dungeon crawl, but I’d honestly never played a game quite like it. Unepic has the unique quality of reminding me of a game I’ve never played. You can read my latest Final Thoughts below and also on my gaming blog on Game Informer. ![]() I have finished another backlogged game via Rogue’s Adventures.
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