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Soul Sacrifice


'Pranay

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Wow so I read like 5-6 reviews & people are completely missing the point of the game.
It's like they're blaming their own incompetence on the game.
Anyone who has played the demo would know how much strategy & timing is required to beat/solo Cerb(until you get the golems atleast) & then they call the combat shallow <_<
To sum it up, lets say this post on gaf covers most of my grieves with the reviews :/


 


Some of the big sites are commenting how the game suffers from a lack of
in-depth gameplay. Personally, I don't think that's true and here's why



(1) The timing of your attacks matters!

You need to time your attacks (right before the enemy swipes at you) to
unlock "Rewards" that would affect the kind of loot you get at the end
of the battle. You can get the following "Rewards" when you time your
attack properly

Counter Achieved... Many Counters... Counter Madness... etc



(2) The combination of your attacks/spells matters!

There is Elemental Vulnerability in this game which you can choose to chain and exploit

Burn the enemy sufficiently... and it'll collapse in Inferno Hell (set ablazed)

Freeze the enemy sufficiently... and it'll be stuck in Frozen Hell (frozen in its tracks)

Jolt the enemy sufficiently... and it'll be stuck in a Stasis (paralysis)



but it does not end there... when you attack them with the right element
in the aforementioned states... you unlock the Skilful Attack Reward

So jolt the enemy when it is in Frozen Hell and you'll see the ice break apart and cause an amazing amount of damage!



(3) The kind of spells you use matters!

Some reviewers have mentioned it's a button-mashing game. NO! you can't
mash them when you have limited casts (you need to renew them if you run
out of casts during battle.. and renewals don't come easily)



You can set up a shield to knock a charging enemy. While it's fumbling to get on its feet, steal the chance to get a few hits!

You can set up trees that bear fruits (that give power-ups to you/allies
when consumed) or to distract enemies/bosses as they try to consume it!



(4) Where you hit the enemy/boss matters!

Is it really a spammy game where you find the best spells and just fire
away? Not necessarily... Other than the elemental vulnerabilities
explained earlier, bosses have specific cursed parts (weak points) that
you can attack and exploit. If you were to destroy all the cursed
points, you'll notice the enemy showing a difference in its movement
(staggering? I noticed this for the Cerberus in the demo). So getting
spells to hit those specific parts matter!



(5) To save or to sacrifice, your choice matters!

This is probably something that Creator Inafune intended as a focal
point of the game. Battles can get challenging and the player is forced
to make sacrifices to defeat the bosses. You can choose to engage in the
Forbidden Arts (Black Rites) that sacrifice a player attribute
(defence/attack/speed/sight/etc) to deal tremendous damage to the
enemies or hold them in place, etc.



Beyond that, when your ally falls, you choose whether to save them (at
the cost of a portion of your health) or sacrifice them to deal an
insane amount of damage to the enemy and lose the ally forever (well at
least for the rest of the battle). When you fall, you make the choice
whether to call for your allies to save or sacrifice you! The
story/single-player mode plays alot into these as your hard-earned
(saved) allies may choose to leave you if you were to sacrifice/save
defeated bosses that is against their alignment





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I'd say everyone should give the demo a chance instead of relying on these western reviews.... Like the demo, buy the game.... Don't like the demo, forget the game.... It's one of those *rare* demos that manages to capture the essence of the full-game completely....

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Got my copy. Now let's see what all the fuss is about.

 

 

Been playing it for the last few days. So good.

Is IVG review for game coming up soon ??

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Yup. This weekend hopefully.

Cool , btw this game not gonna launch here ? if i wana play mp on indian id ? i have to get from uk ? as mp might be locked right ?

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