Hera appears to Nikandreos and grants him access to Olympus and the realms of the gods to murder her siblings, children and taking their power in hopes of overthrowing the tyrant Zeus. With Dion saved, you learn that Zeus has damned humanity to ruin and essentially shuttered the doors to Olympus. You can tackle these in any order and the story progresses once you’ve accomplished everything and decide to continue. You wake up with the city in siege and the modus of the game is instantly employed: You’re given four goals in four locations with a marker leading to each. You play as Nikandreos a warrior of the city of Dion, which quite literally sits in ruins near the foot of Mount Olympus. The Grecian black-figure pottery art style is strikingly beautiful throughout but not as compelling as the actual tale being told. The art style was immediately striking but the slightly floaty physics of the combat and was off-putting to begin with.
A total of 13 hours but about 2-3 of that was backtracking aimlessly looking for other stuff to do and trophy hunting. Looking back on the experience the physics/environmental puzzles were often clever, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild system of breakable weapons helped drive the need for exploration and adaptive combat style. In terms of mechanics there are few gameplay elements that help Apotheon to stand out from the herd of metroidvania releases of the last five years. It turns out that Apotheon is less of an artsy-fartsy video game and more of a metroidvania-lite thanks to semi-branching paths and an emphasis on exploration and discovery with side-quests expanding the playthrough.
THE MUMMY DEMASTERED TRAINER FULL
So a full three years later I finally dove into the game thinking it’d be worth checking off my list and zipping through in a couple of evenings. It’s crazy that they didn’t make it’s use mandatory for say… Climbing Zeus palace.įirst impressions informed by assumptions are generally worthless but with several of my most anticipated games on the horizon, and my Playstation 4 relatively fresh in my hands, I had other shit to play. The Staff of Hermes is a grappling hook and surprisingly a well-hidden side-quest. PS+ games already had a reputation for being mostly Sony’s in-house art projects or smaller, buggier games barely fit for the iPhone app store. Why was it so easy to dismiss the game and move on quickly? This was a quiet month before bigger games like Axiom Verge, Bloodborne, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt all began to release in succession. I remember spending maybe 45 minutes with the game at the time and I’d gotten the impression that it was a shallow, basic platformer and never finished the first task in the game.
THE MUMMY DEMASTERED TRAINER FOR FREE
With my interest in metroidvanias piqued slightly after The Mummy Demastered I began digging through unfinished or overlooked games in my Playstation library and came across Apotheon, a game that was given out for free on the Playstation Plus service back in February 2015.
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