Astebreed and REVOLVER360 at discount on GOG

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Astebreed and REVOLVER360 at discount on GOG

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Revolver is decent.

Honestly, I think the best game on the list is La-Mulana. :lol: (I don't know some of the ones listed though)
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buy astebreed again
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REVOLVER360 is interesting but the rotation mechanic isn't for everyone. It's an easy clear but scoring is more involved. It has a nice mode with short challenges that teach different techniques possible in the game. There's a free "score attack" version of the game if you just want to get a feel for how the game plays.
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I'll add that I played REVOLVER360 on a keyboard, and while the game is obviously made for a controller with rotation buttons mapped to the triggers/bumper buttons, it's possible to create a reasonably comfortable keyboard setup too. I think I have my rotation buttons mapped to Shift and Spacebar.
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Re: Astebreed and REVOLVER360 at discount on GOG

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I thought both games are messy for survival but way more fleshed out for score (all those attacks in astebreed have use and mashing is punished). They have low difficulty for accessibility while making scoring a big focus to appeal to hardcore players. But that seems to have totally flopped looking at their leaderboard activity ever since they launched. Having focus on scoring instead of high base difficulty or additional difficulty modes is an interesting approach but looking back at these two it didn't work too well.

RE:Actor is strange in that there's like no punishment for taking damage. The score attack version fixes that but it's not the main game.
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Deadliar wrote:Revolver is decent.

Honestly, I think the best game on the list is La-Mulana. :lol: (I don't know some of the ones listed though)
Momodora and Blood are highly recommended too!
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