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Dead Cells Review Thread
- Thread starter super-famicom
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So as someone that didn't have Hollow Knight click with them, would you recommend this? I'm enjoying Enter the Gungeon - which seems similar in its progression. Hollow Knight's difficulty is the main issue for me I think.
I love the look of this.
I love the look of this.
Fantastic and gorgeous game for the first 10 hours but then it becomes too repetitive for me.
Still, the responsiveness and the carnage you can cause even on a shitty run is beyond compare.
8/10 seems like a perfect score for this.
Still, the responsiveness and the carnage you can cause even on a shitty run is beyond compare.
8/10 seems like a perfect score for this.
Yeah, the portable nature of the switch makes me feel like it'll be the perfect platform for me. It'll get me to bring my switch with me on the train rides to work, for sure.
I prefer it to Hollow Knight infinitely, but the games barely have anything in common to be fair.
Dead Cells is more punishing than Hollow Knight, but if you prefer the roguelite style of games than it might not bother you. Neither game is easy, but Hollow Knight gives you more ways to approach situations, and penalizes you way less when you die.
These are pretty much my thoughts exactly.
Ugh i was more excited for Death's Gambit and was hoping to put this off a bit...but those reviews.
A single run can take between 30-90 minutes
It took me somewhere between 15-20 hours before I managed to actually beat the final boss for the first time, but that isn't really meant to be the end. When you beat him, you unlock the next difficulty level. Beat him again on that difficulty, and you unlock the next. I think it goes up to 4 (starting at 0) right now, but there are signs that a level 5 will be added. It could take quite a long time before you're able to do that, heavily dependent on how good you are at the game
Then there's also all the stuff to unlock, which will take many runs if you really want to max it all out. Also daily runs with online leaderboards if you're into that
From your review: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/dead-cells-reviewMy review is already in the OP (USgamer), so I'll merely say, get this game.
This is the main draw for me. I'm struggling to think of an action platformer that I enjoy playing more. The game has my favorite feel and combat in the subgenre.
Yep they're "tougher" than most reviewers. If a game is bang average they're gonna rate it 5, not 7 (Far Cry 5 got a 5/10 for example)
Can't wait to play this tomorrow, I have zero experience with rogue-lites or whatever that genre is.
The game is 7.5 at best if you spend any decent amount of time with it. These reviews were probably written after playing just a few hours. The game makes great first impression like mentioned but damn is it repetitive. Levels look bland as hell with no variety within each level. Just same bland background repeated over and over and over and.....zzzzzzzzzz way too many enemies in each area as well.
Im curious, how exactly do you rate "infinite" replayability? Personally, I'd rate it on how the controls feel, and the first few FULL run throughs.
Of COURSE the game gets "stale" after you've run it countless times, ALL games do. Thats not a fault of the game.
Mine went live a couple minutes late but it looks it's already been added to OC (but not MC yet).
https://wccftech.com/review/dead-cells-dont-lose-your-head/
https://wccftech.com/review/dead-cells-dont-lose-your-head/
Well at least make the levels look interesting and varied and not just same background copy pasted ad nauseam. Enemy variety is too low as well and they don't really present any challenges. So they are just bunch of fodders for coins for first half of the game. That plus the bland environments not going to help games of this type.
Where in the post you replied to did they mention that the experience gets stale specifically after you've completed a full run multiple times? Because for me, and possibly for that user as well, the sense of repetitiveness sunk in before I even completed a full run once, and that certainly seems like valid criticism of the game.
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Yeah, environments are not the greatest, but they aren't a dealbreaker. The biggest factor for these games is the combat and controls. If the devs are on a limited budget, I'd rather they focus on that than making the backgrounds look super nice. The scale of the game isn't super large, so I don't see a problem with the enemy variety.
Here we go...
These sorts of comments are insufferable. It essentially amounts to "I didn't like it as much as everyone else, so everyone else is wrong, wait till the honeymoon period is over". It happens with pretty much every game that reviews well these days.
Nah mate, it's just you. Get over it.
Yeah that's really really impressive scores :O Reviewing really well on all platforms it seems.
Cant make up my mind if I want to go physical or not with this one...
Anyone know when it hits retail?
Cant make up my mind if I want to go physical or not with this one...
Anyone know when it hits retail?
I wasn't sure about getting this but the reviews + a sudden trip this week made this an instabuy now. Looking forward to it!
Is the 20% discount for pre-ordering on Switch gone? It shows full price for me.
Edit:
Damn.
Edit:
Damn.
"I disagree with these reviews, so they all probably only played it for a few hours"
yawn
The early access version has overwhelmingly positive support on Steam, so you're an outlier.
My review is already in the OP (USgamer), so I'll merely say, get this game.
Most important thing for me and why I'm so excited for it.
Sounds weird that US eShop already has removed the 20% discount, shouldn't happen until actual release. Bought it just now from South Africa eShop with 20% discount.