It manages to weld together shoot-em-ups and deckbuilding in such a way that both audiences are going to struggle to comprehend what’s happening. Make no mistake, One Step From Eden is not easy or welcoming.
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And we know full well that there have been people pining for a new Mega Man Battle Network game, and this scratches that itch with gusto.
They will absolutely flourish in One Step From Eden. We suspect that there are people who will read this review and consider the incredibly high skill ceiling to be a positive, rather than negative. We made strong progress, memorised what some of the icons meant, and ended a run with new characters unlocked and plenty of XP gained, making more cards available for the next run. We stockpiled a few attacks and artefacts that synergised with each other, and suddenly we were owning the grid like we had been ported into Tron. And just mashing buttons while dodging attacks still has its own kind of glamour.īut for all our complaints, we found moments where One Step From Eden clicked. One Step From Eden does a good job of highlighting where some attacks will land, so – if you’re not overwhelmed by visual effects and enemies, which isn’t all that often – you can get a good approximation of what might happen if you fire. You start to recognise the most powerful attacks, positioning yourself correctly. That’s not to say that it’s not enjoyable in its own messy way. Worst case scenario is you damage yourself. You will unleash an attack that you think targets a row, but it ends up targeting a column, missing the enemy. You might start to memorise a few after the first hours of playing, but it never becomes second nature, and that leads to mistakes. Frankly, you are getting new attacks every battle, you get a fresh new deck every run and – most critically – matches are played at such speed that you can’t possibly keep on top of what those icons represent. But these are just icons, and they’re too abstract. One Step From Eden does its damnedest to keep you abreast of what attack you have equipped at any time, both on your character and at the bottom of the screen. It hurts particularly on your first runs, but we’ve been playing for long enough now to know that it’s a persistent problem: it’s not possible to keep on top of which attack you are using at a given time. While it’s not the most complicated of setups, by golly does it start to get bewildering. It’s all about the rules of three in Slay the Spire roguelikes. At the end of each region, you choose the next region to move to, from a choice of three. You retain and nurse a persistent health pool as you move from node to node, and you are also building your deck of attacks (and some defences) since, at the end of each battle, you choose from three weapons or three artefacts to bolster your options. Some are straight battles, others are shops, healing, challenges and bosses. You can choose your path through those nodes, and they represent different things. It’s a shmup, but with a strict grid to follow, and enemies abiding by the same ‘two attack’ rules that you are.Īs with Slay the Spire, it’s not only about winning a single battle, but surviving and progressing through a larger war. Events play out in real-time, so you are lobbing lightning bolts, poison, waves of energy, turrets and all sorts of other effects at your enemy, and they tend to follow the rows or columns of the grid. You have two attacks at any one time, and they are drawn from a ‘deck’ of attacks that you build over the course of your run. You are on the left, in your own 4×4 set of squares, and the opponent is in theirs. You and your opponents are on two halves of the same grid. The essence of One Step From Eden’s gameplay is simple, but it’s definitely in the ‘easy to learn, hard to master’ camp.
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