Hellpoint simply wants you to do as you’re told. Usually these games have a clear enough reason for wanting you to push through their countless challenges and keep improving. Why you’re there is unclear, which is actually something of a letdown. Well now the Soulslike genre is going metal ay-eff with Hellpoint, a hard-as-nails action game that takes place in a setting that appears to be one third leftover bits of Doom, one third leftover bits of Immortal Unchained and one third discarded heavy metal album cover concept art.īeginning life as a “Spawn” hatched from a cryo-tube, you’re thrust into the Hellish world of Irid Novo, a huge space station-slash-prison poised just beyond the event horizon of a black hole where a bunch of scientists have been attempting to awaken “Cosmic Gods” (because that always ends well).
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The genre itself has been on something of a whirlwind tour of industry-standard video game themes, too, having featured killer robots in The Surge, vampires in Code Vein, 2D platforming in Salt & Sanctuary, an apocalyptic hell-scape in Remnant: From the Ashes, and whatever the hell Immortal Unchained was. It seems these days you can’t throw a stone without maiming at least three Soulslikes – that is, games that ape two or more of the core mechanics seen originally in From Software’s Demons Souls, those mechanics being extreme difficulty, enemies that respawn when you die, and giant bosses with health bars longer than a roll of toilet paper and cool names like “The Gaping Dragon” or “Ceaseless Discharge”.
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