Arkos Review In About 3 Minutes!
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Remember when games used to be insanely difficult and you’d end up getting stuck on a level for days until you eventually beat it and felt like a god for a straight week?
Well Arkos reminds me of that, not just because of its unforgiving approach to difficulty and level design where it often just tosses you head first into the deep end of a lava filled room, but also in the way it looks and sounds, because it’s intended in every way to be a modernized recreation of classic FPS games like DOOM and Heretic, mixed with modern voxel based physics, destructible environments and a custom soundtrack that’s easily worthy of the greats.
It’s a first person fantasy shooter where you play as a wizard called Arkos, who went in search of a powerful weapon left by his teacher, who disappeared without a trace many years ago.
There’s 6 different weapons that consume mana for ammo that you can find scattered around each level, and it runs out fairly quickly if you only the fastest firing, highest damage weapons. As a backup you’ve got a basic, low damage staff that doesn’t consume any ammo at all but it’s not all that useful when you’re being swarmed by a group of hooded rogues with knives or during a boss fight when you’re being attacked by an angry centipede.
You can teleport around using one of the staffs as well, by firing a projectile and right clicking at just the right time to appear wherever the projectile lands and hopefully avoid falling in the lava.
Much like the old classics, Arkos is a game that doesn’t suffer fools, so it must’ve been quite frustrated when I showed up to play it.
If you find yourself on a narrow ledge with no ammo and no way to go beyond teleporting away, then death is pretty much your only option, and you’ll have to restart the level and try something different in order to get passed it, which, at least to me, feels like a nice retro throwback to the good old days, but on the other hand, getting stuck for ages with no tips as to what to do next is equally as annoying as I remember it being.
It’s not a complicated game though, because for the most part the layout of the levels is simple enough to remember the direction you came from and which way you’re going, and the objective is to just collect all the keys, kill all the enemies and find any hidden secrets hidden in the walls, but some things can feel a little bit finicky like having to creep out as close as you can to the edge of a platform to be able to hit an enemy, without taking damage from the lava pool below, or trying to time a teleport just right to avoid falling in the… Yeah you get the idea.
Still though once you get passed an area you’ve been stuck on it’s a great feeling, like the bloody Lava King level I got stuck on for an hour where you have teleport from one side of a room to the other making your way passed rooms filled with ranged enemies and no ammo pickups to collect.
There’s 5 episodes set in different environments with a boss battle in each, and 3 different difficulty modes ranging from normal to insane. It starts out almost too easy, but gradually gets more and more difficult as you progress through the game.
It looks and feels like a modern game in every way that matters, with vivid colours and plenty of animation on the grass little bubbles of boiling lava flying up out of the pools, and the way pillars and other destructible objects crumble apart reminds me a lot of the new building destruction they added in age of empires 2 remastered, and despite all the modernizations they’ve done to bring it up to standard, it still manages to capture that gloriously simple 8-bit aesthetic, all wrapped up in a truly epic soundtrack that I could easily listen to outside of the game.
I feel like this review is just me saying lava and retro for 3 minutes straight, but despite my terrible review, the game itself is an awesome throwback to classic FPS games that looks and feels great and there isn’t really all that much else to say about it. If you’re a fan of classic shooters and you’re not put off by the minecraft-esque graphics, then the chances are you’ll really enjoy ARKOS.
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