When not facing enemies, you may even find alternative routes that can take you to secret levels and pieces of equipment. But no one will blame you for looking for treasures and exploring each level after secrets as you do it. Metroidvania-like exploration: In Odallus you will venture through a menacing dark world while searching for your son.Here goes Arthur… I mean, Haggis searching for his son Collect your enemies’ souls and trade them for items and power-ups that can help you survive against some grotesque monstrosities that can have some info about your son’s whereabouts. What do you do? In Odallus: The Dark Call, you will explore non-linear levels and fight men and monsters alike while searching for your son. Grab your sword and prepare to explore a land forgotten by God in this retro adventure! Now he departs in an adventure to find his son and make the responsible for his disappearing pay for it. Fearing for the worst, he runs back to his village and finds it being consumed by flames. When one night, while sitting by the campfire, deeply immersed in his thoughts, he hears a strange noise from far, far away. Former warrior, now a hunter who ventures in the wild to provide for him. But there’s still one more title released on the final days of 2019: Odallus: The Dark Call.įirst released for PCs in 2015 and now brought to consoles under the wings of Digerati, Odallus: is an action platformer where you play as Haggis, a former warrior who has a single reason to live: his beloved son.
In 2019, you brought to Xbox the amazing Blazing Chrome (available on Gamepass… If you haven’t played it yet, you really should give it a try!) and the challenging Oniken. It's about a thousand times better than Thundercats, that's for sure.Ah, JoyMasher… as a fellow Brazilian gamer, you feel my heart with pride. Grotesque, gorgeous and grim, Odallus is one of the best games from an alternate eighties that I wish I'd been a part of. Even when the enemies aren't particularly intimidating to fight, or particularly imaginative in their attack patterns, they always look the part. I've completed Odallus as well and it might well stay in my memory for twenty years or more. It reminds me as much of Elite's old Thundercats game, which is one of the first games I remember completing. There are many games that use a retro aesthetic or playstyle but Odallus is one of the few that could actually convince you that it's a lost artifact from another decade. It plays like Ghosts 'n Goblins with a Masters Degree, using a similar damage system that has just the right amount of heft in its knockbacks, but incorporating pacing that is slightly more varied than the 'go right and then die' approach of Capcom's eighties brute. Even the sound effects, which seem to be snarling from a chipset that your computer has absorbed from a timewarp, are chunky. They're far more rewarding though.Įverything in Odallus feels solid.
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Odallus is reminiscent of another series - Castlevania - but its gothic horrors are nowhere near as challenging as the cyberninjas of Oniken. The first game I played from Brazilian developers JoyMasher was Oniken, a hard as nails retro action affair that reminded me of Battletoads in its willingness to kill me over and over again. If you remember a time when character sprites took up what seemed like half of your screen real estate, and action was solid and punchy, Odallus: The Dark Call will feel like going home, to a simpler place. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations.