Babylon's Fall - Trailer

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Published on June 2, 2023 3:00:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9o6VGfj4S4

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Babylon's Fall (2022)

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Babylon's Fall was an action role-playing game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix. The game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows on March 3, 2022. It received generally negative reviews from critics, and was a significant commercial failure for Square Enix, with the game only reaching a concurrent player count of less than 1,200 on release day and declining sharply afterwards. Six months after the game's release, Square Enix announced that they would be ceasing support of the game's servers, which later shut down on February 27, 2023.

Gameplay
Babylon's Fall was an action role-playing hack and slash video game played from a third-person perspective. The player assumes control of a Sentinel, who must scale a massive tower known as the Ziggurat.[6] Players started at a hub area known as Sentinel Force HQ where they can interact with other players, visit shops or blacksmiths to purchase gear and upgrades, and access quests. Each quest can be played solo, though the game also supports four-player cooperative multiplayer. Players ascend three to four floors in each quest until they reach the summit of the tower. Along the way, players will unlock loot which can be used to enhance the strength of the characters.

Plot
Set in a fantasy world, the story of Babylon's Fall was split into three quests.

Tale of Two Ziggurats
The final quest released on May 31, 2022, as part of the update titled "The Light of Auru", the Tale of Two Ziggurats serves as the conclusion to the Bablylon's Fall story. The final fates of several characters are revealed as Gallagher kills Eleon, the player killing Gallagher out of revenge, and Urom-Baggel being defeated.
While the plot focuses on the new Kuftaali faction who is seeking help from the player to stop the new plague, the ending shows a Kuftaali character named Shamilka being revealed to be the true final boss of the game known as Ereshkigal (who is of the same alien deity race as Nergal). The game ends with the player killing Ereshkigal, permanently ending the plague.

Development
Production on the game began in 2017, around the time of Nier: Automata's release. The game was revealed at E3 2018 during Square Enix's own press conference and was originally slated to release in 2019. The first look at gameplay would be seen at Sony's December 2019 State of Play presentation. It was shown again at E3 2021, now labeled a "game as a service". This means that the game would be supported with free updates, new gameplay modes and content upon release. PlatinumGames opened a new Tokyo studio in 2020 to help the studio make live service games.

The game was released on March 3, 2022, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows, with cross-platform play support. Players who purchased the game's Digital Deluxe version could access the game on February 28, 2022. In September 2022, PlatinumGames and Square Enix announced that the game's servers would be shut down on February 27, 2023.

Reception
Babylon's Fall received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Metacritic listed Babylon's Fall as the third-worst game of 2022.

Destructoid liked the combat, praising the "coffin combos" and "slick" dodges, but felt the actual structure of the game was boring; "most of the challenges are the same hallways, remixed, and the same enemies, slightly tweaked". Rock Paper Shotgun disliked the progression of the game, writing that it was needlessly confusing; "You rush through corridors and into progressively harder arenas... Occasionally there are yellow orbs to collect on your way, although I haven't been told what these do. Beat an arena and the game will give you a rank, like Stone or Bronze or Pure Platinum, which also nets you... nothing?".

On Steam, the game has an all-time high of 1,166 concurrent players, which fell to just one player in May 2022. In Japan, the physical PlayStation 4 version of Babylon’s Fall sold 2,885 copies within its first week of release, making it the twenty-fourth bestselling retail game of the week in the country. The PlayStation 5 version sold 2,224 copies in the country during the same week, making it the twenty-seventh bestselling Japan retail game throughout the week.