Each fight begins with you entering the lair of a beast that is massive, strange and totally disinterested in you and attacking it, which was my first clue that my actions weren’t entirely heroic. I say attacking, because that’s precisely what you’re doing. It’s hard to feel significant climbing the beard of a stony god, unless you plan to kill it. Attacking the beasts feels fraught, dangerous and, when you manage to succeed, triumphant. It’s a simple formula, and the game works hard to make you use every drop of potential it possesses while keeping the rules persistent and intuitive. Your magic arrow is your only weapon, and launching it or summoning it back are your only abilities. The boss variation is as good as you’d hope it would be, considering they’re the sole focus of the game, and fighting them is based entirely around a very simple collection of abilities. With few exceptions the difficulty to each encounter lies mainly in figuring out what exactly is needed to dispatch each titan, and while “shoot it in the back” is the answer more than once, there’s easily enough interesting beasts to keep you searching. I’m not going to tell you he was the hardest of all, emotional trauma ain’t got shit on twenty tonnes of pissed off seamonster, but it added a unique moment within the chaos of colossus combat.Īt first you’ll die often, then, as you get used to it you’ll begin to only die regularly. I particularly remember one colossus who told me, in no uncertain terms, that he was prepared for death, but now too ancient to move. The writing on the wall, etched in the blood of magical beasts reads something like “this is your fate.” There’s a real sense of doom, not just in your quarry but yourself as well. In a clever bit of storytelling, one even has abilities that mirror your own, though of course theirs are somewhat more useful. Humans are nowhere to be found excepting a couple of notable bosses, and even they seem like magically mutated aberrations. It was the big pink arse killed the beast” I found it to be more 30/30 with a hefty 40% generic fantasy thrown on top, which just doesn’t mesh with the “dying world” theme I love so much. Neither was “Dragon’s Dogma”, the most popular contender to the title.
This is by no means a bad thing, considering if you’d proposed a 50/50 blend of “Shadow of the Colossus” and “Dark Souls” to me I’d bury your family in wealth. I don’t know why they didn’t call it “Colossus Souls”, so pure is the mix between the two games. It doesn’t exactly try to hide its inspirations. Either way, if you liked them, there’s a good chance you’ll like this. Whether or not you imagined the hero riding a horse is a good way of testing which classic I just described had a greater effect on you “Dark Souls” or “Shadow of the Colossus”.
This is a game in which a small, silent protagonist of unclear motivation wanders the ruins of a massive empty world, hunting down and dispatching a number of strange and improbable beasts to advance a plot they cannot fully comprehend.
#Titan souls character free#
if you’d like to know what I thought of the luddum dare free version, click here.
This is the second time I’ve reviewed Titan souls.
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