![]() ![]() ![]() Though the default lucid attack, "Astral Blow", is excellent for shoving those demon gits halfway across a level. It always felt more satisfying to react than to take aim and fire. ![]() I ended up using parry more than my ranged attacks or my lucid blasts. Turrets, which will otherwise take some pummelling, will fall to a deflected projectile immediately. If you time things right, you can send ranged attacks back along the path they took. The parry and block are capable enough for you to use them both defensively and as an attack. The demonic forms are easily corralled with a spin of my favourite childhood toy. My favourite is the Megaton Stingers, burning yo-yos that are great for crowd control. But you can collect better items-swords, speedy knives, even uppercuts that generate spikes of rock. Your melee powers start off fairly basic, often just fists. It’s tough to describe a typical fight because the levels are generated. Two melee attacks, a great block and parry, a ranged attack, and two “Lucid” attacks, which are the elemental and magical assaults. As each loadout is different on each run, you have to adapt to your new build. Melee and ranged attacks ping around you creating small pockets of chaos for you to rail against. The inner demons mix together to craft lots of short, room-bound challenges. Each level is a series of connected rooms and each room has its own theme: a fight, a shop, a puzzle, or even just free stuff. She’s dropped into a randomly generated level set in a specific location, like her old town. ![]() Every night she dreams about her old life, visiting surreal versions the places she’s lived. I like pretty much everything about it.Ĭassidy is a bit lost, a bit lonely, and deals with her depression by fighting it in bed. You’re fighting off adult ennui with childhood trinkets as you dream, then fostering relationships in the waking world to make your finger guns more powerful. Dreamscaper touches on depression and loss, but it’s also an ARPG about whacking inner demons with burning yo-yos and blasting them with finger guns. ![]()
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