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A Quick Look–Ravenswatch by Passtech Games

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Minna Hong • 0 Comments

I have been playing a game called Ravenswatch (Passtech) that is in Early Access on Steam. I was hyped about it because it’s based on fairy tale characters and…well, that’s pretty much what I knew about it. The look is that of Diablo (which I always call Derbler for some reason) with the same basic layout. Grimy fields that you traverse through and kill hordes of enemies. The four starting characters are Scarlet, Beowulf, The Snow Queen, and The Pied Piper. Scarlet has an interesting characteristic in that she turns into a werewolf at night, who has a completely different skill set.

Ian got the code before it came out, and he really enjoyed it. I was so into it. I liked the looks of it and the concept behind it. Then I started playing it and….I didn’t love it. The enemies were plentiful and so damage sponge-y. The easiest of the enemies took three hits to kill, which was tedious. It has a MOBA feel to it like LOL or something like that. Beowulf is the tank, Scarlet is the rogue, The Snow Queen is the mage, and The Pied Piper is, ah, another rogue? There is no healer, by the way, at least not that I’ve unlocked. Remember, it’s in Early Access, which means it’s still in development. There is one chapter with one boss. You start with four characters unlocked, and I know you can unlock two more.

Passtech’s previous game was called Curse of the Dead Gods, and it was hard as hell. Light was a big part of it, and I could not see anything. I gave up after an hour because while I like difficult games, it has to be a certain kind of hard. Ian and I were talkinga bout which roguelikes we liked. For me, it’s Hades (Supergiant), Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Edmund McMillen), but NOT anything after that (including Afterbirth and Repentance), and Dead Cells (Motion Twin) up to the final boss. For Ian, it’s Spelunky (Derek Yu), and he liked Hades, but did not love it. He acutally played BOI before I did, but stopped at Rebirth.

He mentioned for Ravenswatch that he did not like it for the first few hours. Not until he was able to get to level five and unlock his ultimate did it really click. Once I started playing, I understood what he meant. Everything felt so plodding to me. As I mentioned, the enemies were damage sponge-y, and I would sigh in frustration in seeing yet another horde of the screaming women who got their health back by screaming before they rushed through me. By the way, they are very reminiscent of FromSoft characters, which is not a surprise.

Challenging myself

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Minna Hong • 0 Comments

I love FromSoft games. I think this is probably a well-known fact about me. Dark Souls III is my favorite game of all time and watching Kurpa get the plat in it is making me want to go back to it. When I did my own hundo chievo in it (there is a raging debate about whether you’re allowed to call it a plat if you don’t do it on PlayStation, which I think is ridic, but whatevs), and I was hating the game by the time I popped The Dark Souls achievement (meaning I got all the other chievos), and then I did not touch the game again for several months. That was a grind of a plat and I think a way of FromSoft saying, “We don’t wanna, but if w e hafta, HERE. The covenant achievements are b-r-u-t-a-l.

Anywayy, I’ve been dipping back into Dark Souls Remastered because it’s finally, FINALLY back on line. They had to take it off because of a hacker issue back when Elden Ring was dropped. All the PC versions of the From games were cut off. Now, they are all back online.

Before that, there was a glitch with the PC version in that it would not save properly and you could not play online. Which was annoying. Now that I’ve beaten every boss solo, I have no issues with summoning. Can I beat the bosses solo? Yes. I did when the game first game out as Remastered because…well, ok. Quick detour.

When the Remastered came out, there was a hack that allowed someone to invade (on PC) and kill Andre, the first and most important blacksmith. He’s very early into the game, but the first time I played, it took me twenty or more hours to get to him. And I accidentally hit him because I was still getting used to the controller buttons. It was the first game I played using the controller (Xbox) so when I went to talk to Andre, I accidentally attacked him instead. Here’s the thing about the first game. If you attack someone once, they will be forever aggroed to you. I thought maybe if I sat back down at the bonfire, I could reset him, but no. He came after me, fists up.

I Googled it because I could not imagine playing the whole game without him. I had to kill the Bell Gargs (hadn’t done that yet) and meet Oswarld of Carim so he could forgive my sins. Here’s the thing. It goes up with every level, so between the first time I met him and when I could actually pay him, it cost a few thou more. I think it was ten thou in total, which was an exorbitant sum at that time. In following games, you can hit a NPC once without any consequence, which is much better.