Hands of Necromancy first full playthrough: Episode 1
2I'm finally returning to fully play through this indie-developed Hexen-like FPS. It originally released in 2022, right around when I played its demo; it has since had significant updates, involving a bunch of rebalancing, more transformation abilities, and even extra levels.
The demo I played 2 years ago encompassed the entire hub portion of the first episode, so for E1 I was mainly curious if the hub's progression had changed at all, and to see how much lies beyond the blue portal.
As it turns out, the hub progression didn't really change; on the plus side, that made for a rather efficient playthrough since I knew which order to tackle levels in. As for what comes after, I was pretty surprised by how large the post-hub levels can get, and the episode's boss fight seemed pretty neat.
Given that this is a Hexen-like, I'm hoping things might get a little more complex in the subsequent episodes, in terms of required revisits between levels for progression. (And maybe some alternate entrances to spice things up?)