It was sold as a cute and friendly “soul light” Slime Hero I combine two of my favorites in video games: adorable slime and Dark Souls– Style gameplay. Despite some good ideas, Slime Hero‘The recipe doesn’t work. Yes, it’s cute, but it also feels frustrating, clumsy and unfinished.
Slime Hero Players cast as colorful, customizable blobs that are far beyond the weight class in order to save the fantasy world from the rot of spreading. My slime, played from a top-down isometric perspective, is free to use a variety of attacks. A light, heavy, or jump smash attack that adorably transforms into a fist or anvil that sharpens the slime badly. I quickly acquired a spell-like skill. This allowed them to throw projectiles and summon a whirlwind that sucks on enemies.
My slime can also find fair weapons in the world like swords and spears. (These weapons are also made up of slimes.) And like the heroes of great video games, my slime can wear a hat (and other accessories) that will give it super speed, health regeneration, or special vitality.
Being a “Soul’s Light” Slime Hero It adopts a variety of concepts from the game Dark Souls. In addition to the light and intense attacks of all weapons, my slime can be dodged to avoid taking damage. When my slime dies – the rest of the wooze spells something like “pain.” Slime Hero‘bon fire. And after death the shrapnel I had collected from the enemy I had lost awaited me at the place of my defeat. These souls… uh, shards can be spent on various slime upgrades.
Image: Pancake Game/White Thorn Game
Slime Hero Although based on solid concepts established by more than a decade of souls games, developer pancake games lack in adapting to cute and kids-oriented settings. The battle is mushy, too simple and unattractive. After fighting over and over again with just a handful of the same dull enemy types, I chose to simply scoot many of them and bypassed the battle as much as I could. The platform has a similarly spongy sensation. It’s not a great feeling to travel through this world.
There is one very good idea at the heart of Slime Herobut. As I progressed through the fantasy world, I unlocked skills that could be combined in clever ways. Whirlwind-like skills that create vacuum-like tornadoes can be combined with projectile-like skills, allowing slimes to fire moving whirlwinds. Alternatively, you can combine that whirlwind with a breathing attack to cause a tornado that will spit out the pillars of breathing attack. Additionally, you can combine each skill with special effects, add Lifestar effects, fire, ice and other modifiers to add a huge number of unique combinations.
You can also summon families who will fight on your behalf, and mode them and fire meteors. Trying these combinations can be fun. I’d love to see other games being built Slime Hero‘Skill effect.
Image: Pancake Game/White Thorn Game
Unfortunately, the user interface Slime Hero Make swapping skills, key and secondary effects, and bonus special effects like chores. Much of the UI is clunky and is just part of the overall lack of polish in the game, but it’s a very disappointing.
It’s difficult to recommend Slime Hero For those looking for a next soul-like correction. Kids may prefer it because of the cute, well animated characters, but I can see it being overly frustrating for an unskilled player. Slime Hero They don’t do enough work to guide players on what to do next and where to go. But it’s kid-and-new player-friendly, thanks to two couches and an online co-op (a feature that could not be tested) and the damage-enhancing accessibility options addressed by the heroic slime in that story. Slime Hero If you tune it correctly, it can really be really, really easy.
That’s not enough Slime Hero It rises beyond its shortcomings. There is good intention here, and there are some very cute visuals, but nothing makes the other souls games great.
Slime Hero It was released on March 6th on Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X (Slime Hero Available for later on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. ) The game was reviewed on Xbox using code provided by Whitethorn Games. Vox Media has an affiliate partnership. VOX Media may earn commissions for products purchased through affiliate links, but these do not affect editorial content. You can find Additional information on passthecontroller’s ethical policies can be found here.
