This, of course, means he needs to venture onto the castle grounds to retrieve everything, fighting the goblins every room of the way.Ĭombat is quick and reactive, with the goblins initially starting out with spearmen and gunners and quickly adding more dangerous types as Roy progresses. A friendly maid/octopus-girl helps Roy get up to speed on his current predicament, which is that he’s stuck in the basement of a goblin-infested castle with the pieces to his helicopter scattered all over the landscape. In this case it’s the engineer Roy who’s crashed into a castle of magic, as opposed to the more steampunk-like world he’s from. Ignoring all that for a bit and to give the gaming side its due, Nigate Tale starts out with the typical underpowered hero making his way into a dungeon he’s just not yet prepared for. I don’t have a lot of “Thou shalt not…”s in gaming, but hypersexualizing a girl whose character design puts her in the 13-14 year old range is right at the top. There’s a lot of fun to be had in its colorful dungeons fighting the castle’s aggressive goblin-staff, but for me at least there’s a major “I’m out” moment that completely ruins Nigate Tale. It’s also just released into Early Access with a roadmap that includes adding more monster girls, which will lead to even more abilities and interesting choices in each run’s setup. Nigate Tale is an action-roguelike with a focus on monster girls for its power-up mechanics, and while it’s not a top-tier example of the genre, it still manages to be a great time thanks to some creative abilities that nicely stack together, requiring only a bit of luck and strategy in choosing its perks to create a powerful build. In a more narrative-based game it might even be a plot twist that probably sounded better in the author’s head than on the digital page. While rare, there’s a point in some games where it switches from “Play more!” to ” I’m out.” Sometimes it’s a boss encounter that’s just balanced wrong or maybe a level that requires a new play mechanic simply doesn’t fit with the rest of the game.
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