An Indie, PSX FPS Style Dark Souls? – Dead Wells The Devil Fragment Demo –
9Dead Wells The Devil Fragment is an Indie, Hack and Slash, First Person Dungeon Crawler that feels like a retro PSX FPS Style take on Dark Souls.
Ok.
An Indie, PSX FPS Style Dark Souls?
The influences are strong.
From the stamina system that encouraging a balance between attack and avoidance, pared with a jump and sprint system to avoid hits, plus a block and timed parry option if you wish, along with the light / heavy attacks offering a meaningful choice between speed and power, and the addition of a sort of stagger system, called “Falter” here, letting the player dps stagger the enemies after a bit if they land those hits!
Beyond the combat, which is a big part of any Dark Souls like, Dead Wells also pulls from that great game concerning its environmental exploration, an important consideration in any Dungeon Crawler, with it opening up after the intro bits to let the player pick their path going forward; good.
A Dark Souls like RPG:
Beyond the combat, Dead Wells offers the kind of deep character customization familiar to Dark Souls players, with five very different character classes to select from right at the start.
Each of these classes has a different weapon, sub-weapon, and special gear, and their own hp, mp, and “Devil Tears”, used to fuel their very different sub-weapons.
For example the “Devil Hunter” (awesome class name btw), gets a chain flail, spiked with a huge morning star, your sub-weapon is a sort of ice crystal magic grenade that freezes everything around it, and your passive gets you more Devil Tears sub-weapon ammo for you slowly over time; nice.
While the “Bloody Berseker” (Maybe supposed to be Berserker?) is a very Berserk influenced great sword wielder who has the GUTS to cleave the demons apart!
Their sub-weapon is a weird “Rat Buster” mesh cage that bursts opens and released hungry rats (so Guts mixed with Willard I guess, a terrifying combination…), and their passive grants them health steal if they take a hit, then land their next one, handy!
All the classes are wild and different like that, adding a lot of gameplay options and potential replay-ability to the game; a very welcome feature.
No Bonfires Here!
Instead, you get a cook pot!
Very different!
Hehehe
At this cook-pot, you heal, save, spend soul bits to level up, upgrade weapons, and can buy items, so it’s not exactly a bonfire, but oh, it is close!
Also, like in Dark Souls, when you rest, enemies respawn, letting you grind or practice your powers on enemies if you wish; a nice option.
Controller Support is planned for the game, but was not working for me at the time of this early demo.
Thankfully, mouse and keyboard control was good, though rebindable keys were not present either.
Hopefully, they will be added at some point prior to launch.
Note: This is an early look at the Steam demo for Dead Wells The Devil Fragment so any bugs or other oddness is not representative of the final product.
Still, Dead Wells The Devil Fragment is an Indie, Hack and Slash, First Person Dungeon Crawler that feels like a retro, PSX FPS Style take on Dark Souls.
Dead Wells The Devil Fragment is easily well worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2525660/Dead_Wells_The_Devil_Fragment/
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