#Hellpoint xbox one full

I understand making things difficult, but it’s not “hard”, it’s straight-up cumbersome. You then must backtrack with no map to these points to be able to teleport. These are not only limited but difficult to find. First, you must find an item to allow you to synchronize a breach (where you level up). But there’s fast travel! Yet, it’s extremely limiting. To top that off, you must go to one specific place to dismantle your items. It looks like you’re playing a game decades old. Navigating the menu system is a pain and looks awful.

Management - Want to change items or explore your inventory? Get ready for a lackluster experience. Lacking any form of direction or map doesn’t make me feel accomplished for figuring it out on my own, it sways me to force quit the game only to be more confused the next time I try playing. When I got stuck, the reason was not knowing where to go next. The difficulty comes in the form of not knowing what to do next. I don’t think it’s really that difficult afterward. Then suddenly things became extremely easy for me. I probably spent a couple of hours trying to figure everything out and become strong enough to pass to the next area. It’s a level on its own and it forces you to die and level up before being strong enough to beat the first boss.

When you start this game, you’ll be spending quite a long time in the “tutorial”. A little short tutorial on how things work with good explanations on what to expect in your adventure. Intro to Hell - Typically, an introduction to the game is a way to ease you into the mechanics. Becoming more powerful is important, and you get the chance to do so even if you’re pretty bad at playing. Enemies that were once a nuisance become a two- or three-hit kill. It really is a feeling of accomplishment to become more powerful. This led to planning out and doing simple math to make things work even when I was doing terrible. Picking up axiom bundles were my favorite item as, even if I died and lost what I had, these were always available until I opened them. Grinding out these levels can really help so, even if an area is difficult, you can eventually become strong enough to make it passable. Each time you gain a level, the number required to invest in a perk increases. There are points called breaches where you do so, and a thing called axioms are your resource. It’s things like these that really make a game memorable. I never stuck around the front of the beast to really get a good look at what it was doing. It can lunge at you, do several attack patterns with the tails, or shoot some laser thing at you. The boss is quadrupedal and has several tails. Their attacks were neat and often brighter than normal enemies. Each boss was a pleasant surprise of death. No elegance, no frills, just a corrupt being of hatred.

#Hellpoint xbox one full

Do I have full health and potions to spare? Let’s kill it! Half health and lots of axioms on me? Goodbye! The design of these monstrosities is exactly how they should be. But then there were larger ones, ones that I knew would always be fight-or-flight situations. There were smaller ones that were generally easy to figure out and dispatch. If we’re in Hell, at least there’s a lot of consistency.Įnemies to Die For - My favorite part of my maybe eight hours in Hellpoint was fighting a new monster. Each new boss seemed more threatening than the last. Horror is my jam and Hellpoint succeeds in creating the right (or wrong) vibes. Decaying flesh of discarded bodies riddle hallways and show signs of impending, all-encompassing evil. There’s also a spark of science fiction thrown in. Like a dark hum with a few thrown in evil sound effects. The music is just ambient dark-sounding noise that just tells you “you shouldn’t be here”. Hella Creppy - There’s a certain atmosphere that’s somehow gross but pleasant.