Hell Clock

It's a nice game. If you liked Hades, you'll have a lot of fun in it!

It's alright. - The game has a unique visual style that (combined with some odd UI choices) causes legibility issues sometimes, but is otherwise striking and capable of setting an oppressive tone. - The items / passives you choose for your build feel impactful, but narrow in their scope and interactions, so once you pick "Build X" your subsequent choices are basically made for you and all else falls to the wayside. - Outside of "beeline" upgrades like increased meta-currency rates or inventory space, a majority of your upgrades feel boring, unimpactful, or uninspired (like 5% resistance to a specific element). There are multiple meta-progression systems that feel incongruous with each other, tonally and / or mechanically, but do offer a feeling of progression between multiple playthroughs if you so choose. - The titular hellclock doesn't add much to the experience. Sometimes you feel frustrated that you've run out of time (possibly due to bad luck with +30 second item drops) and have to end a run prematurely, but oftentimes I'd forget it existed, with runs either ending from boss encounters or narrative stops. On paper, it's a clever idea for preventing overpowered runs from going further than intended, and it hypothetically keeps you engaged and focused on efficiency, but in practice it's either annoying or forgettable. - The narrative focus on Brazil's Massacre of Canudos is novel, if not a bit dark, but the game kinda drops you into the story without much explanation, and by the end I felt like I only had the bullet points to work from. There are times when characters, enemies, or settings will be introduced that will lack impact without the background knowledge of Canudos - which Hellclock does not always provide. - The campaign is decent and enjoyably short. Your mileage may vary depending on your skill level though, as the levels all contain the same exact layouts and content, so if you get "stuck" in your progression, the repetition can become intense. This also means that any "new game+" / "Ascension" runs you do will become increasingly dire, which is at odds with how desperately the game wants you to play through multiple subsequent runs. I don't think Hellclock is good enough to warrant the 200 hours of repeated playthroughs it wants from you, but I do think it's worth playing through the 8-ish hour campaign once, for those already curious.

it's okay

willy good game

O jogo é divertido e muito bom, principalmente se você é um fã de diablo 3. Eu particularmente não curto roguelike mas a maneira que esse funciona é ótima, você não reinicia o jogo sempre do início, além de fortificar o seu personagem e poder fazer builds insanas. Minha principal crítica é outra, eu sou totalmente contra o pensamento de que jogos Brasileiros obrigatóriamente tem que ser um churrasco de referências a cultura brasileira, porém esse jogo se propõe a retratar de forma fantasiosa um acontecimento muito lembrado do nordeste brasileiro, e aí vai a minha principal crítica, o bioma do ato 2 é pra representar a caatinga, porém acabou apenas sendo uma espécie de deserto genérico, além dos inimigos serem bem genéricos nessa parte, onde basicamente tem uns lagartões, cactos vivos e algumas outras variações. Eu honestamente penso que o design dessa parte poderia ser melhor representado, a caatinga nem ao menos um deserto é, ela é um tipo de bioma exclusivo do Brasil, e os mobs desse bioma podriam muito bem serem inspirados em animais da pŕopria fauna, como grupos de pessoas onças pardas, ou uma espécie de tribo de monstros de tamanduás, tendo o lider como um tamanduá bandeira bem grande. Até agora só estou no ato 2, em breve venho para acrescentar algo a minha resenha quando chegar no ato 3.

Não deu 3 horas de jogo ainda, mas não tem como não vir aqui e dizer que é um jogo muito bom, baseado em um evento da história do nosso Brasil e que foi muito bem feito, tanto a jogabilidade quanto a arte do jogo. Esta de parabéns! Recomendo e muito!

That's outrageous. I'm not going to buy DLC that costs just as much as the base game just to finish the story. That kind of thing should be banned. Since the update, the game has been lagging, too—no DLSS or other improvements. But I didn't like the game because of the pricing structure. Downvote the game for such a rip-off.