Greetings Stopgame.Ru! I want to first of all congratulate all players on the beginning of the new game season, we will find many interesting and not very releases and a sea of content. And at the sunset of the summer indi, I would like to tell you about such a game as Decay of Logos.
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Decay of Logos – This is an indie game in the genre Action/Adventure With elements RPG From a third -person, created, as amplify builds, under the influence of European folklore and high fantasy John Tolkien. The gameplay is concentrated mainly on the research by the player of the world with minimal weapons, complex battles and the need to competently dispose of available resources. Even before the game, many managed to christen it with a mixture of The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls. From the first, the game adopted the style, the similarity of the character with the main character of the series of games about Zeldu and the system of damage to weapons. From the second, the game adopted much more. Here and a relatively slow combat system with fairly complex bosses and minibosses, death fines, a system of checkpoints in the form of camps and altars, a limited number of consumables, but about everything in order.
The plot tells us the story of a girl named Hell and her faithful companion of mystical los. The latter is one of the features of the game. However, the meeting of the couple did not occur under the best circumstances. The village of the girl was destroyed by one of the king’s sons. Broken and blinded by a thirst for revenge, hell will go in search of the culprit, gradually revealing the secrets of the royal family, realizing that everything is far from unambiguous and simple. The plot is reflected by dialogues with peaceful NPCs, whom the character will meet in his path, KAT scenes and altars with memories describing the ENT of the world.
Recently, it is fashionable to shove riding animals for the GG, even where they are not particularly needed. Well, okay, the share of faciality is still causes.
From the point of view of gameplay, the game has almost all the necessary components for Souls-Like games and is not much similar to the previously mentioned Zelda, there is only a question of the quality of the implementation of these components.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the features of the game is the presence of a mount. However, fortunately or unfortunately, there is no particular benefit from him. Moving on a elk is not comfortable enough. He jumps slowly, and to manage them dubious pleasure. Against his background, roach from a witcher seemed one of the ideal ways of moving. Personally, most of the way I went to my two. And the calls are not always on the desire to answer, because of which he simply can not wait. Nevertheless, the Mount can stay for you with a good additional equipment, because hell can be equipped with only two types of one -handed weapon and one type of two -handed weapon. On her own belt, a girl can store up to 4 consumables, from which situations are not rare when objects simply lie on the ground.
The weapon in the game is available for every taste and color, from large swords and bows to not large customs. Each has its own certain Muvset, the radius of defeat, the speed of attack, the consumption of stamines and special properties, such as damage or poison, which makes it possible for the player to select the optimal weapon to win the enemy. However, no one prevents the plug of a huge fence with a sword. In addition to weapons, hell has a meager, but in places a practical set of magical skills, which instead of a stamine will spend the life of a character for use.
You won’t be a witcher, but to highlight the road, push someone away or set fire to-always please.
Fights in Decay of Logos data are not in a hurry. Opponents hit painfully, sometimes unexpectedly, and if the lion’s share of ordinary opponents does not cause problems, then some bosses and minibosses can take you an hour, or even more. Hell herself perfectly owns his body, from which the player can evade enemy attacks, fend them off or block them with a shield. More aggressive players can add tackle to my arsenal. The variety of opponents, even if it is not very large, but it is and each is a danger, because of this it is still worth fighting with them according to the classics, namely, luring the opponents one at a time.
The more you miss, the more you are weakening. Nothing personal.
The game world is also similar to the games of the Souls series. Instead of an open world, we get quite extensive, but still corridor locations that gradually change each other as we pass. The world itself is filled with various chests, encouraging curious players with good weapons or armor, puzzles and places with complex opponents.
Traveling around the world, the player will meet many friendly NPCs, who will be happy to share their history, stories about the world or ask for help. And after some time, hell will stumble upon a not large settlement, where he can chat with all the companions found, as well as fix his equipment from the local blacksmith.
The blacksmith constantly strives to run away from you.
Like any clone of Dark Souls, the game is trying in every possible way to pervert the system of punishment for death. The game contains quite unique in my opinion a pumping system, the essence of which is in the next. The player will automatically pump the basic characteristics of causing damage to enemy, opening chests or activating mechanisms. However, any damage received will impose fines on these very basic characteristics, thereby the game motivates to clean up locations and try not to get damage. Death does not seem so terrible, because it will allow the opponents to resume the locations, which will make it possible to get not a big increase in the characteristics.
To worry about fines is also not worth. In the game, in addition to prayer altars, which serve the points of checkpoints, there are camps where the player can replenish his health once, will remain and sleep, thereby relying all the fines. But here it was not without creativity. Going to sleep in this very camp, there is a chance that opponents will attack the character and before ending his sleep session, the player is forced to repel the attack.
There were no particularly dangerous attacks, so I think you can sleep for your health.
But, like any indie game, in Decay of Logos could not do without its minuses. Flying Western sites, I often came across bad games of the game due to a huge number of bugs, poor optimization and terrible frizes. Well, there really are bugs in the game, I will not hide and many of them need to be fixed with patches. However, I did not notice any critical. Most of them are minor, and some bugs help completely overcome strong minibosses. As for optimization and freezes. There are frizes, but this is a rather rare phenomenon, although sometimes frizes can occur directly during the battle, which is certainly not a good sign. The game itself on my system is going on without any complaints at maximum settings in Full HD resolution (we are talking about FPS).
But what is more critical is a delay in the response of management and working with the inventory.
Speaking of the first, I noticed such a feature that during the battle with the opponent the player manages once, after the commission of certain combinations, they will dodge the attack. Sometimes it turns out, sometimes, subject to the same condition, the character does not respond to the “evasion” button. Perhaps the whole thing is in compliance with timings and animation, and possibly all the same in the response. Sometimes, there are situations when when using one consumable flask, the character immediately uses the second, the reason for this moment, I could not finally find out.
As for working with the inventory, I will simply give an example. I apologize in advance for the tautology. As I said earlier, the character can carry 3 types of weapons with him, two of which one -handed and one two -handed. If during the battle you can calmly switch between two -handed weapons and the main one -handed one, then switching one -handed occurs strictly through the inventory. Critical? Not quite, but not convenient. But what is critical is that using the moose as a storage or working with a blacksmith, you cannot throw a one -handed weapon into the second layer. The game will constantly change your main weapon, which is why you have to carry out manipulations with the replacement of the main and secondary weapons or throw the necessary equipment to the ground, minimally weapons to throw a mount into the inventory or give a blacksmith and select equipment from the ground as a secondary. In addition, in the Mount itself you can throw only one type of one -handed and one type of two -handed weapon. I agree, it sounds too confusing, but please turn me to work with an inventory in the game is extremely not convenient.
When you try to take the ax into the main slot, and the dagger is in a secondary.
The graphics in the game are quite simple, but with taste and perhaps this is one of the main elements because of which the Decay of Logos is compared with Zelda. As for me, the character was not made very, and his first version was much prettier, but this is all subjective. But let the world go and far from Tolkien’s high fantasy, made beautifully and one that you want to explore. Work with light also deserves both praise and criticism. Entering the caves without a torch, you really will not see anything beyond your nose, but in more lit places, the picture can be very darkened due to more shadows and shortcomings in light sources. On some locations and especially in tombs, the color palette cannot but delight the eye.
Second version of Ada, in the first she was a brunette.
But the sound component is quite modest. The game has well worked out the sounds of strokes, background sounds and even there is a feature associated with the sound of tapping flasks on the belt during movements. This is done so well that the sound itself does not distract, but if you listen, you are pleasantly surprised at such a small detail. But with musical accompaniment, everything is not so rosy. In the game of this style, I want to hear epic and exciting compositions during the battles and mysteriously magical instrumental during research. And if the second is even more or less present, the first is not even at all.
Oh dear bard, you are the only one who pleases me with music in this game.
Despite the devastated articles of Western gaming portals, I am extremely disagreeable with their opinion. Yes, the game needs many corrections and primarily technical. There are not so many content in it, but the game is able to drag out. Decay of Logos is perfect for those who want not particularly long, not particularly complex, but visually cute and fully responsible and fully responsible for the Laws Like game, which can be held a couple of evenings in front of the TV with a gamepad in their hands or in front of the computer, waiting for larger autumn projects. Also, from the local bard I heard that if you do not squeeze a plus on this article, ADA’s weapons will wear out quickly, and the local moose will not arrive at her call. Thank you for your attention, strong nerves to your ambulance!
