![]() And the more you stop to look around in Hellpoint, the more you’ll notice out of the way places with an item and you’ll be scratching your head thinking “Now how am I supposed to reach that?īottom line: some platforming skills required and patience will serve you well in the long haul. Over and again you’ll find something hidden that requires jumping across a gap, or climbing a series of spaced out stairs, or activating a switch and jumping down two-three floors to get an item behind a gate before it closes again (Sohn District *cough, cough*). I want to reassure anyone turned off by 3D platforming, you will get comfortable with it because exploration now centers around verticality. So while jumping can be both difficult and intimidating, it adds more positive changes to the formula than frustation. Now I’m making running jumps onto turbo lifts (must be grabbed when no floor is below or yes, you die) like it is nothing. I’ve already died more times than I want to reveal on jumping puzzles, but most of those deaths were early in the game. You will quickly come to learn that the jumping mechanics take some…patience. The enemies you’ll encounter on Irid Novo are nightmare fuel! ![]() ![]() However, the team at Cradle Games definitely added to the formula in two significant ways: jumping and the omni cube. It also means that combat, exploration, and co-op/pvp functionality will also work as you expect (for the most part). It also means your homebase is the closest thing to “The Nexus in Space” you’ve ever seen. ![]() This means your stats and leveling are instantly familiar to veterans of the genre. Hellpoint, in many ways, follows the script laid down by Demon’s Souls extremely closely. Evidently, something went very wrong here and it’s up to the player to find out and/or die trying. As soon as you arrive, you’ll see flesh and metal twistedly married together in a way that I’m sure every Cenobite since Pinhead finds enviable. You awake, the creation and emissary of some strange “Author” on a mission to the space station Irid Novo to investigate how things went so massively sideways. More than that – there is an authentic macabre weirdness that is hard to find in the soulslike genre outside the work of Miyazaki himself. There is something grotesquely beautiful about the setting, characters, and story in Hellpoint. With additional development offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Riga, Latvia, tinyBuild is rapidly building a portfolio of fun, high-quality games across multiple platforms.Arriving on Nintendo Switch on February 25th, Hellpoint, from Quebec-based Action RPG developer Cradle Games, takes soulslike in a new direction: sci-fi/occult horror. TinyBuild is a Seattle-based indie label behind the Hello Neighbor franchise and over 30 renowned titles, including Graveyard Keeper, SpeedRunners and Party Hard. Cradle’s team members worked on series like Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Spider-Man, Prince of Persia, Skylanders, Rainbow Six, TMNT, and more. The company was founded in 2015 by industry veterans Mathieu Boudreau (Creative Director) and Marc-André Jutras (Technical Director). Jump-in co-op and PvP multiplayer: Hellpoint offers a full, uninterrupted online co-op story experience with shared loot drops.Ĭradle Games is a video game development studio specialized in next-gen action games for PC and consoles and based in Quebec City, Canada.Dynamic World: The Quantic System acts as a dungeon master, slightly transforming the game world every time you die and triggering events as the station revolves around the black hole.Occult space story: Blending science and fantasy, the intensely atmospheric dark sci-fi setting will keep you searching for answers.Souls-like gameplay in a unique setting: Explore the derelict space station of Irid Novo and face bizarre enemies with a tight and unforgiving combat system.
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