“It looks cool as hell anyway, with an aesthetic so satanic it verges on ridiculous. As I played more and more, I grew accustomed to the exact conditions and exact timing of moves that I needed to pull off before the next sequence began. It might be hard to believe at first, but there’s a consistent order to the waves of enemies that appear.
Unlike other twitchy, reflex-based games from recent memory, this one doesn’t spawn your opponents randomly. The relentless thrill of blasting baddies and the smooth transition between the game over screen and a fresh start (tapping R instantly resets it at any time) make it easy to get sucked in, losing entire hours to the black hole of “ just one more try.”Īs simple as Devil Daggers’ run-and-gun routine may seem, there’s enough technical detail to make exploring and exploiting its various systems one chaotic hell of a good time. With the amount of intensity packed into a single second of gameplay, even a one-minute run can feel like an eternity. Hordes of floating skulls and disembodied demon heads spew out of tentacled behemoths, mindlessly giving chase while increasingly grotesque beasts spawn from all sides until the mobs become too overwhelming to fend off any longer.
Trying, failing, and trying again is a particularly brutal process in that abyss, where there’s always some new monstrosity threatening to cut your latest attempt short.
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