What works in Dishonored due to the fact that the story drives you to new locations, falls short in Deathloop, that is built on exploring the same limited places. Just as in Dishonored you may choose your approach, but here you will have to go through the same motions, locations and enemies again and again. Depending on the moment of day you will find the same mindless cannon fodders in the same place, doing the same routine. Also, after a few loops you will learn the habits and placement of you opponents as well.
Even with hunting for hidden morsels of information you are able to cross them in a matter of a few minutes. This means that subsequent loops will feel more of the same and become right-down boring.Īlso, these locations are not actually big. Although they change somewhat depending on the moment of the day, their size is not exactly generous, and you will quickly learn them by the heart. First and foremost, the developers only included four locations in the game. Unfortunately, some of them have been fully confirmed when reviewing the game and took away from the overall experience. The basic concept of Deathloop may be interesting, but at least for me raised some concerns. Until you discover the secrets of Infuse, which lets you keep your favourite items, but you need to farm long and happy to afford to use it.
So, you will die again and again and again until you figure out the correct order to eliminate all the marks and each time you will lose all your hard earn equipment. It will not be a walk in the park to manage to kill all four them in just one loop, especially that the mysterious Julianna has the bad habit of hunting you from time to time. These can be considered the bosses of the game, and each one of them has a nasty trick up to its sleeve. After several hours and a few failed attempts, you manage to figure out the basic rules: a day is composed by four cycles (morning, noon, afternoon and evening) which you have to manage to the best your abilities in order to eliminate eight Visionaries. There is no actual game over in Deathloop, each death giving you a chance to restart the day without any weapons or equipment but keeping all the intel you have gathered. Information is your most important weapon and the only thing that cannot be taken from you in case you bit the dust. You will find out that you actually used to be the head of security of this weird place, and you will learn more about Julianna, your nemesis that just teases you to the edge of your sanity.
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The problem is you are not sure how to do that since you start your struggle with no memory of who you are, where you are, how you got there and what is it you are supposed to do.īut exploring your surroundings and killing all the crazies painted in various pastel colours you will discover more details about what is going on and how you can escape the cruel joke that is being played on you. Unless he manages to break the loop and escape the Blackreef Island. I wanted to see if Arkane manages to keep their ingenious level design and how much of an atmosphere they manage to conjure in a game that focuses on the bad day of a random hero.Ĭolt is the first hero of the story, and he does not have a bad day, he seems doomed to relive the worst day of his life again and again and again. Both of these signature features have been employed to turn the PS5 exclusive Deathloop into a success story.Įspecially Dishonored is a franchise that is close to my heart, and although the premise of Deathloop is not exactly something that tickles my fancy, I was curious about the game since its announcement. Those familiar with the work of the studio will agree that their artistic style is as remarkable as their knack for level design. Arkane Studios had a couple of hits during their existence from the almost completely forgotten Dark Messiah of Might and Magic to the more recent Prey or Dishonored.
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