2/3/2024 0 Comments Hellpoint map![]() You play a Spawn of the Authority brought to this world to investigate the circumstances of this event and unravel this deep interstellar intrigue. You will explore the open world of the Irid Novo colony, orbiting in real time around an enigmatic black hole which triggers all sorts of dynamic events to keep you on your toes. Build your warrior according to your play style, and venture alone, with or against friends in online or split screen multiplayer. Once a pinnacle of human achievement, the Irid Novo space station has fallen. Its ruins are now overrun by cruel interdimensional entities acting as puppets of the malevolent Cosmic Gods. You have been created by the Author, organically printed on Irid Novo and sent on a mission to find out the unholy series of events that led to the catastrophic incident known as the Merge. Irid Novo is a massive interconnected world full of mysteries, hidden passages and secrets within secrets - all for you to explore in any order you like.However then playing the game on other consoles revealed just how downgraded the Switch experience is overall too – texture mapping is reduced as are framerates, to such an extent that, honestly, once I’d played the game on the Xbox Series S I really couldn’t go back to the Switch iteration. ![]() I originally played the game on the Switch and was immediately struck by the long load times and occasional graphic glitches – both of which seemed to get worse the further you got into the game. However Hellpoint‘s biggest issue, in this particular case, is the sub-standard port to the Nintendo Switch. ![]() Hellpointis certainly not for casual gamers that’s for sure. For one, Hellpoint is incredibly cryptic beyond setting you up with basic instruction, Hellpointpays its cards very close to its chest, almost as if the game relies on both players previous experience with the genre and gaming in general rather than provide instruction and/or guidance… Which, given the audience for this type of game, they can probably get away with. Shame there’s no bloody map! Yes, whilst Hellpointdoes have some plus points in terms of great gameplay, theres also a number of issues. Like other action RPG’s there’s a lot of exploration to do aboard the sinister spacecraft this game is set in. SO one quick melee battle, as long as you don’t die, can refill your life and set you up for a ridiculous big battle you’ll lose in seconds and end up screaming at the TV. Speaking of gauges, the best thing about Hellpoint is the fact you can rebuild your health and magic guages by fighting. You can also equip yourself with a sheild – which is oh so important for defence in Hellpoint, Also critical to defense is the ability and propensity to roll away from enemies, although that does wear out your characters stamina gauge so cannot be used too often. Combat is the usual mix of light and heavy melee attacks at first – with the option to wield guns and this games version of a BFG later in the game (once you’ve collected enough “axioms” from defeated enemies to buy them of course). And, at the start, that’s very much how I felt the game played out, like another space-based dark and dingy sci-fi horror but then Hellpoint throws in seemingly indestructible enemies that make mincemeat of you in seconds and that familiarity, that feeling that we’ve played this game before, goes completely out of the window as you realise this is Dark Souls in space! As such you REALLY should be a Souls-like fan to get the most out of Hellpoint.Įven the combat takes a leaf out of the Souls-like genre so much so that, again, it all feels familiar. Visually Hellpointreminded me vey much of the first Dead Space game – full of murky tunnels, rusty metals and enough shadows to hide all manner of terrifying creatures. If you got frustrated with Dark Souls et al. Then it throws everything out of the window with HUGE enemies and even bigger bosses who have a tendency to kill you in seconds. ![]() When the developers of Hellpointsaid their game was inspired by the likes of Dark Souls, they really didn’t exaggerate did they? Hellpointis yet another hard as nails game, one that lulls you into a false sense of comfort, allowing you to explore and fight numerous enemies in the early going that make the game seem just on the right saide of tricky to seem fun yet challenging. Inspired by the challenging gameplay of Dark Souls, science fiction cult classics like Event Horizon, Hellpoint is a hardcore sci-fi action role-playing horror where you play as a synthetic human being, exploring an abandoned space station, fighting horrible abominations, collecting the axioms they leave behind and trying to uncover the truth behind your creation…
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