I heard in the 3 minute review. I am still willing to give it a chance, even though I don't care for the genre. This will be my second rouglike brawler. The first was Mr.X's Nightmare.
After seeing some reviews, the continue system is not too bad, but I can see where you're coming from. There are a total of 5 stages. How it works is if you died at a certain age of each stage, you will always start at that same age for the next stage. I.E, You died a few times and turned 25 in stage 1; you'll always start at age 25 in stage 2. They want you to replay levels over and over until you have attacks patterns and spawns memorized. There is another neat feature where beating mini-bosses and bosses the first time, will unlock alternate paths or short cuts on repeat/subsequent playthroughs. You can reduce you death count by beating specific enemies or certain amounts, but not bosses though.The only other way to reduce the death count for future stages is to go back in to an early stage and don't die, so you will start at a young age on the next level. Easier said than done of course. This game is clearly amount mastery and knowing difficult patterns.
As far as I can tell the bob and weave function while holding guard seems to be evasion for when you have memorized enemy attacks and want to stay in the heat of the fight, versus just outright dodging away. It feels like something more for top tier player rather than normal players just getting through it.
I've been playing, and yeah, screwed on that statement a little. It's not a rougelike. Levels are not procedurally generated. So the 3 Mintue Review messed up on their part. If you still don't want to play, then I can not fault you. Everyone is different.
Oh are procedurally generated levels part of "roguelike?" Eh, I get confused on the unofficial terminology.
I mostly disagree with Nick. The attacks and tells are consistent about 95% of the time (from what I've seen so far), but it's just a lot of memorization is involved with enemy attack patterns. And of course, exploiting those patterns. Knowing when to parry, when to duck dodge, and evades and side dodges are just as important. Occasionally there will be an enemy, or boss or two that does that sliding thing to catch up to you, but it doesn't happen at often. And even then, there's a way to get around that if you can vault or slide over surface environments.
I agree with Nick sort of. I feel like while you can learn most enemy patterns, there is a small chance that they will do something do out of nowhere and i have no idea why. It might be the AI reacting to a situational positioning between it and the player, or environmental differences where a normal enemy will do something different because a balcony or something is nearby. I have no idea.
The blocking and parrying I've mostly gotten down consistently. Like I said before, the enemy dragging model thing has happened to me, but not that much so far. Like I said though, it doesn't make any less annoying.
Don't know what you're worried about. The game is most likely going to be more than fine. I'm not invested, but I already know it's going to do great and be great.
Don't get me wrong, God Hand has its own flaws too (dynamic difficulty & a few lousy checkpoints). GH does outclass about 99.9% of 3D brawlers or action games that focus on melee combat. There's only a few better than God Hand. And even then, God Hand is still kind of unique as they're not that many over-the-shoulder brawlers.
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