Soulstice video game6/8/2023 ![]() You unlock a variety of weapons as you progress through the story which you got to try out during the intro mission such as a Bow, a pair of gun tonfas, and a whip to introduce different combos as you fight stronger enemies. The game starts off with you having access to every weapon that you unlock with story progression to give you a taste of what combat could look like. Soulstice’s combat is an attempt to recreate Devil May Cry’s style with a camera that can’t keep up with 50% of the action. ![]() While one barrel can obviously be broken because its shiny and glowing, the one right next to it may not and can really annoy someone who’s played Zelda and tried to break everything in their path hoping to fight that next orb. Improving the sister’s powers and abilities is as simple as picking up orbs that are housed in breakable barrels, containers and crystals strewn about the city. Cycling between these two in combat is going to be what makes you successful as the game progresses. Blue is for seeing hidden platforms and attacking blue tinged enemies while the Red is for destruction of red crystals and of course red tinged enemies. Auras are a way to interact with the immaterial plane so that things that might have been hidden are able to be damaged by Briar and her weapons. You can choose to focus Lute on defensive skills, Auras and offensive capabilities. Lute is the one who’s powers will change the game as you progress with her abilities tied to a true skill tree system where briar is just unlocking things from a list. Truth be told, I quite enjoy the story, even if it is pretty obvious about the ending that awaits them.įrom the minute you start the first level you are guided through the different powers of Briar as the melee fighter and Lute as the protective specter always at your side ready to protect you at a moment’s notice. ![]() The sisters must traverse the destroyed city and figure out how to close the chaos rift now hovering over the city as well as figure out what happened to the other chimeras that were dispatched and can no longer be found. The sisters are dispatched to the city of Ilden along with another pair of Chimeras of the Ashen Blade to dispatch the chaos that has overrun the city. Nothing bad can be used from using the literal power of chaos to create something, I’m sure. This created the cycle of life and death. In what I assume they thought was a good idea, they then used the power of chaos to create mankind. The beginning of Soulstice starts with a story recalling how the Chaos was imprisoned by the three keepers called “The Torchbearer, Shaper and Judge” but due to banishing chaos, the world became empty. Published by Modus games and developed by Reply Game Studios, who by the way is based out of Italy, has introduced us to the story of two sisters, Briar and Lute, who are forever bound to each other and are now known as a Chimera, a knight of the Ashen Blade and thrust into a city overwhelmed by Chaos that they must defeat. It wasn’t a game I that had been discussed in my circle of friends, but I thought “hey, why not, I like the angsty emo hack and slashers as much as the next guy” and here we are eight chapters into it and wondering what I’d gotten myself into. Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of Soulstice until my editor sent me the video to the trailer and asked me what I thought.
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