![]() ![]() The melee attacks help regain mana that’s used for the secondary weapons. The weapons are broke down into melee, primary weapon, and secondary. The upgrade points are found by defeating certain enemies or locating hidden spots. Players will come across pedestals to activate and as long as a certain stones have been found throughout the level, it can be activated as both a checkpoint and an upgrade station. The game is extremely tough at moments, there is a fair balance to checkpoints here. Almost always exciting and fun, but challenging and rewarding to defeat. This variety also shows in the huge amount of boss battles encountered. One minute I was climbing up walls and gunning down weird aliens and creatures, the next I’m hang from one, as it flies around the environment. The level of variety during my play through was always a surprise. While the core elements of Valfaris remain as a run and gun shooter throughout, there are moments of melee and figuring out what weapons work best for a situation. While the game plays like Contra or Metal Slug, it does so with an elegance and a penchant for extreme taste of brutality and heavy metal and surprising variety. Add in an 80’s heavy metal cover theme and I’ve just described Valfaris in a nutshell. With pixel and pre-rendered elements that I just adore from the past generations. As if the developers were invoking an older retro playstation style side scroller I somehow missed in the 90’s. Immediately I was captured by look and feel and only wanted to dive deeper into the experience. Of course the soundtrack reminded me of their preview game SLAIN. Meanwhile the pixelated graphics gave me a feel of Blizzard’s Blackthorne. The sound effects remind me of the top down RPG Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen for some reason. There are some other games that came to mind as well when playing. Lots of blood, guts, and nightmarish looking creatures. If Contra was rated PG-13 though, Valfaris would be the R rated version. It’s difficulty, high intensity action/platforming, and wide assortment of nasty looking creatures only compound this thought. The closest series I feel Valfaris can be compared to Contra of course. Featuring an almost evil like feeling of decay and death, the game surely dives head first into its atmosphere and setting. While the plot line of Valfaris isn’t what’s going to bring players on board, it sets the stage for what’s to come. Bringing forth death, carnage, destruction, and metal in a side scrolling shooter, this adventure that proves the genre still has what it takes. Having re-emerged from a place unknown, the kings son sets off to investigate what happened to the city and his father. In a dark, desolate future, there is a city fortress called Valfaris. ![]()
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