Soon, enormous arachnidan hellions loom over the edge of the void looking to steal what little you have in the realm of aid. Falling from the stage proves just as lethal as any encounter with your foes and pyres appear from the blackness to spill ethereal skulls who quickly lock on and close in around you. All presented on a hovering platform about the size of an average home in the suburbs (though far less comforting), a sense of claustrophobia is sure to set in as more enemies begin to fill the arena. THE MECHANICS: Devil Daggers thrives in its mechanical fortitude and its strict one touch, one kill nature. Stand still long enough and find yourself in a sea of demons in flight. Standing in the same position in which the dagger previously hung, the world around you suddenly feels alive. Seize the dagger and find yourself in its place. So minimal it skews on the arcane, Devil Daggers’ tone and all-but-absent setup inspires in you a morbid curiosity, like a child peering into a dark basement. Your parents told you never to go down there, but there you are, placing one foot in front of the other in the first defiant steps towards blackness. You’re surrounded by nothing but the dimly lit platform on which you stand. With Devil Daggers, you get the same thrill but you can keep your quarters. The tension of slowly improving your scores and your technique is reminiscent of days spent in an arcade being utterly defeated by games that were made to do just that. Viewing somebody else’s run is but one click away, allowing an attractive ability to spy on other players’ techniques so that you may suss out how, exactly, these people got such high scores. Tracking score like old arcade cabinets, Devil Daggers also sports a system that allows you to view any playthrough you desire, found with all its charted scores. Accepting defeat is an option, of course. It’s mechanically simplistic but designed to be maddeningly precise, holding with it the potential to defeat even the most skilled of gamers, try after try, again and again, forever. SO… THIS AGAIN? Devil Daggers holds an appeal unlike many games. This week, Tommy revisits ‘Devil Daggers’, developed and published by Sorath and available on Steam. This is RE/PLAY, where all that stands between us and eternal darkness is our right hand.
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