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One Step From Eden (Roguelike inspired by The Mega Man Battle Network series ) Announcement Trailer
- Thread starter TheDanimal
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Oh snap a release date! Been keeping a eye on this one, really loved playing the demo.
Really cured my MMBN itch at the time.
Really cured my MMBN itch at the time.
Local co-op?
Sign me up
Sign me up
Same. I've been begging for a BN collection.
Is the game just combat? I'm buying it either way but I'm sort of disappointed if there's no other gameplay loop.
This is the most recent game I backed, after mostly swearing off of backing games on KS after a few too many misses, but seeing MMBN inspired I couldn't not jump in. I'm impressed this is coming out so soon, very excited.
I saw this before and I'll likely still get this even though I'm not too hot on it despite being a huge Battle Network fan. The artstyle doesn't do much for me and Rougelikes aren't my cup of tea either but I'm happy that the battle-system finally gets its recognition and time to shine it deserves. And it seems the devs really nailed that part! :D
Ya I'll have to buy this. Makes wanna go back and play this mega man series. Only played the 1st one and never finished it
All over the fucking place in various states of development. Shit, someone's working on a 3D Battle Network game that I'm more waiting for the C&D than the game itself
Spent a fair bit of time with this already and it's an obvious day 1 purchase. Shame about the disappearance of the original artist though.
Yeah, not a huge fan of the art style either, the sprites look a bit too soft and simple, still gonna keep an eye on it tho
Care to elaborate a bit on this? Not getting much just through Google
It's not a hugely exciting story, the original artist moved to China at some point and then disappeared from the internet. I asked the dev about it and he said he'd lost contact with the artist following their move and that they weren't involved with the game any longer.
Ah I see, huh that looks interesting and well done for what it is but that kind of 3D is not really my cup of tea.
Has anybody here tried the new demo?
I tried the old demo on Steam tonight and have some thoughts:
Pros
+ It's MMBN's combat! And that kicks ass! It feels good to play and looks flashy.
+ It's basically Slay the Spire everywhere else. When I say basically, I mean it *is* Slay the Spire. It has it all: a looping deck, cards that add 0-cost cards (shivs) to your deck, keywords (exhaust, etc), relics, removing cards to streamline your deck, everything. I think it's a smart replacement of MMBN's discrete turns and opens up a lot of possibilities that aren't possible with turns.
+ The branching structure is also pure Slay the Spire. I don't mean this as a bad thing, because StS is the best deckbuilding roguelike on the market, and has inspired a cottage industry of similar games.
- The pace of the game is too fast for me, personally. I get that it's going for a frantic bullet hell style of play, but with you juggling a looping deck rather than a handful of chips each turn like in MMBN, it's too much for me to keep track of while avoiding the many, many projectiles and obstacles on your side of the board. Again, this is just my opinion.
- The "buster" equivalent is fully automatic, which I'm not a fan of. You can use your spells while holding down the buster button, and so unless I'm missing something (very possible, given I spent 20 mins with an outdated demo), there's no reason not to keep it held at all times. As it stands, it just adds even more particle effects and visual noise to the battlefield. I would've liked to see a slow buster that gets upgraded to be more useful as in MMBN. I'm like 99% sure the game has some spells or artifacts to buff the buster, but when it's full auto to begin with and you can hold it down, I'm not sure if there's going to be any meaningful tactical decisions to be made with regards to its use.
- The buster is also bound to X by default (on an Xbox controller), while spells 1 and 2 are bound to A and B, respectively. I think it makes much more sense for buster to be on A while the spells are on X and B so you can buster/spell with your thumb easily, and X/B makes sense in a left/right alignment sense more than A/B.
Haven't seen this before, but it looks quite good.
I agree. See my recent thread that I made about it here.
I agree. See my recent thread that I made about it here.
Ready to buy it the second it comes out. I loved the demo, though it definitely destroyed me at parts.