Staying on the move is vital, so it’s a huge plus to have smooth controls that make pulling off these quick and cool moves feel great. The Devil Daggers equivalent of rocket jumping (firing a shotgun-like blast of daggers into the floor mid-leap) let me soar over my pursuers, adding some Z-axis movement to the featureless circular arena. A deadly giant centipede emerges from the ground. Fluid movement physics allow ample opportunity for mastering new techniques in speed and agility: bunnyhopping to gain a slight boost in speed became a near-constant necessity as I wove my way around deadly spawners, leading swarms of skulls around the arena until I could take them all out with a good clean side shot. Then again, making sure the arena never gets that crowded in the first place is key to the challenge.ĭespite the apparent simplicity of the controls and your abilities, there are plenty of ways to stay a step ahead of your enemies. This is especially true in the “late game” (beyond six or seven minutes in), when the visual clutter of pixelated enemies becomes so overwhelming that the real challenge is interpreting the mess on your screen to begin with. The graphics, intentionally dated by the jittering polygonal style and giant-pixel textures of the original Quake engine, may not make everyone feel fond with remembrance though. “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.” The Devil Is in the DetailsĪs 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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