Battle Results will determine your bonus at the end of each chapter I then found a lot of these options in the accessibility menu where it had an option to auto block, which I changed in a heartbeat. On the defensive side, you have L1 to dodge and B/Circle to block, I really had a hard time with all these controls and combos to keep track of and when I was stuck trying to beat a boss, I went to change the difficulty, only to find there was no option to do so. Nope, not in this game they have switched around and took some time to get used to with no options in the menu to remedy this, but this just took some time to get used to. The main annoyance was the light and heavy attacks, normally with games like this, you would find the light attack on the X/Square button with the heavy on the Y/Triangle. Now onto the part of the review, I’m looking forward to, the gameplay! Fighting in Soulstice can be quite simple as you will come across 7 weapons throughout your time in the game, each offering something new from 2 variations of your sword, to armour bashing gloves all the way to bow and arrows to fight flying creatures, there is really a great mixture of enemies to encounter and many variations of how to take them down.Īs much fun as I’ve had with the battle system, there were some flaws that needed fixing in the settings. If you step into an arena setting, best get ready for battle While I found the battle and cut scene choreography to be really well done, I wish that they had given the same attention to the storytelling. There is a good story within this game, whether it is told by these echoes or from the world building stories told to you by Leyton, an Observer who will sell you upgrades and items mid-chapter. It is in these areas that you will learn the story of Briar and Lute. Also after defeating an area’s boss, Briar will sometimes lose control and require Lute to bring her back from the brink of turning into one of the creatures that are tainted across the world. What these echoes show Lute and Briar are the events that took place prior to and during the rift in the sky. This story tells itself, not through cutscenes or pre-rendered videos, but through echoes you will find throughout the world, almost like the echoes you will find littered across the map in The Division. You see Briar, like most people of the Kingdom has been infected by the invading Wraiths with what is referred to as the ‘Taint’ and is slowly waging a war inside of Briar for control of her soul. Briar and spirit of a sister serve the Order of the Ashen Blade after events led to Briar becoming reborn as a Chimera, think of them as the Jedi Knights of this world with their own force spirits to help them out. As I’d mentioned, Solstice on the surface seemed to have taken inspiration from some of the best action hack and slash games over the last 20 years and as you will play throughout the game, if your an avid gamer and lover of most styles of games, you’ll see that Soulstice has taken the best parts of quite a few games from over the years, some work, some won’t but it gets a lot of things right throughout your time in Keidas.įrom the outset, Soulstice throws your right into the game as Briar and Lute, soul bound sisters who have been tasked with finding the cause of a rift in the sky that is tearing apart this Holy Kingdom by a mixture of enemies from beyond the veil.
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