![]() My time in the Indie Room (above-ground branch) came to a close with two biggies: Disco Elysium and Phoenix Point.ĭisco Elysium sees thee cast as a detective with problems-a-plenty be they booze, smoking, drugs, memory and/or mental health related. The former is available now on Switch and PlayStation platforms (that’s PS4 and Vita), whilst the middler and latter are currently available on Steam. I thoroughly enjoyed the arcade-stylings and twin-stick fun of Rogue Aces, cartoony aircraft-sim Bomber Crew, and strategic RPG For The King. ![]() While the shoe fits - General Krausher is exactly the kind of character that’d send a series of giant robots to do his bidding - it just isn’t worthwhile to end on such a comparative creative low.Ĭurve Digital - another splendid publisher - had a few games on show ‘ere too. Once again, there’s nothing technically wrong with the fight, but it would’ve been so much more effective to see Hades Division’s Gundam -style tincan descend without it ringing incredibly familiar. Hades Betrayal ’s culminating confrontation proceeds to shoulder the blame for this what’s typically a spot reserved for grossly malformed behemoth bosses that beg for you to put them out of their misery, is instead occupied by another mech requiring similar tactics to take down. It’s a hugely chaotic encounter, true to Raiders form, but one we ultimately could’ve done without. Taking place in a gorgeous interior, you’ll aim to draw a big ol’ chainsaw-wielding mech towards explosive plant life, utilising the bulging buds to damage its armour and expose the vulnerable pilot within. Having inadvertently recruited the red-headed teen, he’ll soon be added to the roster as a universally purchasable playable character, whereas Ayana is a free exclusive to Hades Betrayal owners.īreaking from established convention, a boss battle rounds out mission number three. In a cruelly amusing twist, you’ll then need to double back and lug Schneider himself through the level in reverse. Moving to intercept a Hades Division assault, you’ll carry an Encoder through the level in order to prevent Schneider, a brattish whiz kid, from downloading critical data. The campaign’s second mission intelligently facilitates getting to know her loadout, with multiple defence points and a range of enemy types allowing the new recruit to be used to her fullest potential. Cool as that is, anyone that struggles with Raiders ’ rock-paper-scissors melee combat system will love the humble ability to drop mines at Ayana’s feet, serving as an excellent counter should someone foolishly opt to charge her down. They persist for just a short time, but long enough to synergise particularly well with her special, whereby she hooks and drags an enemy towards her, and, with a bit of pre-planning, into their inevitable fiery death along the way. In terms of loadout, Ayana rocks a mortar rifle used to launch proximity-triggered mines into the environment. She’s a characteristically bizarre prospect within the Raiders universe - a tribal future pirate with an accent that flits between Jamaican, Indian, German and Welsh… From here on in, Ayana is playable across all missions. To tackle (teehee) the most powerful military force in the galaxy, our ragtag crew could use a hand, or a pair of hands, as they set out to convince Lieutenant Ayana Kwena to defect to their cause.īy devastating the location Kwena is assigned to defend, they do exactly that, as returning to Krausher with failure in tow would be suicide. ![]() ![]() Comprised of four new missions, the campaign sets the Raiders at loggerheads with the eponymous Hades Division, lead by General Krausher and his case of small penis syndrome.
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