Game:

Sundered (2017)

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Review

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It’s certainly strange to refer to a game taking heavy influences from classical Cosmic Horror as a breath of fresh air, but that’s just what happens when you end up reviewing two games about war back-to-back during, shall we say, historically significant times.

Sundered: Eldritch Edition is a metroidvania roguelike, which is a sentence that sounds like it would get me accused of witchcraft a few hundred years ago. You play as Eshe, a woman wandering the desert only to be forcibly dragged into a chaotic nightmare labyrinth by horrors beyond mortal comprehension. A tale as old as time.

Resist or Embrace
You will spend most of your time in Sundered running around large (and very pretty) environments, or fighting a horde of monsters to the death. Sundered does not have preset monster spawns. Instead, sometimes a handful will jump you. But the main way that monsters spawn in what the game itself refers to as Hordes. Signaled by the sound of a gong, Hordes, as the name would suggest, is a large group of enemies bent on eating your face. The difficulty of the Horde depends entirely on where you are when they spawn. No matter how many bosses you’ve killed or how strong your basic attack is, if you’re in an early area, the Horde will consist of early enemies.

Sundered has some of the best action-platformer controls I’ve ever used. I never didn’t feel in control of Eshe, except for the very first time I fired a gun and wasn’t expecting the kickback to launch me across the room. Your attacks are fluid and combo into each other perfectly. You have good reach and you can easily tell when you or an enemy are taking damage. Enemies inflict knockback but you don’t, which means a nasty hit can sometimes propel you out of immediate danger but you aren’t at risk of knocking an enemy out of your own combo.

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