It does decent damage, but as the name suggests, your target must be in Eskimo-kissing distance. If you managed to scrounge up enough gold (often found in breakable pottery and those aforementioned wooden crates) you can buy a short sword. Each area is expansive, and there are no loading breaks between the sewers, the village or the outer swamps, resulting in a world that – so far – feels engrossingly seamless.īefore heading out, you may want to pay the blacksmith a visit. It’s here that GRAVEN opens up and gives a proper sense of how the final game might play out. Once inside, you’re immediately tasked with reactivating a fallen lighthouse beyond the village walls. Unclog the pipes and the portcullis of Cruxfirth will rise. It is not, unlike the electrical spell you acquire later, meant to be used as a weapon due to its rapid mana consumption and seemingly nonexistent damage output. You’ll also find a pyromancy spell in the sewers that can be used to burn away sticky cobwebs and ignite explosive barrels – something which will come in handy for dealing with those corpse piles. You could try kicking them with your mighty boot, but that’s more of a last resort for when surrounded. A few thwacks from your trusty staff will put them down, or a single accurate strike can take their heads clean off. They move slow, but have a nasty lunge attack that covers a considerable distance. If this isn’t a power statement, I don’t know what is.ĭown here lurk the demo’s most common enemy: shambling plague victims driven to homicidal madness (don’t call them zombies). Most games like to lull the player into a false sense of security for a few hours before dunking them waist-deep in raw faecal matter, but that’s too long for GRAVEN.
That’s right, GRAVEN begins with the sewer level. There’s a blight on the realm, and the guards won’t let you in until you’ve cleared out the corpse piles causing a nasty plumbing blockage below the village. It’s been taken down at the time of writing and I can no longer play it, but fear not, I went through it twice beforehand and even made a few notes.Īfter awakening on a dinky boat drifting through the swamps, you arrive at the backwater village of Cruxfirth. This limited, hour-ish-long demo was released on Steam to coincide with the 2020 Game Awards (I sure hope Bioware can finish that new Mass Effect before EA murders them). It casts you as a disgraced priest seeking answers and redemption in an accursed land. GRAVEN is an immersive, dark fantasy first-person adventure with a late-90s graphical aesthetic. Really, there are a lot of crates in this demo and only one dog. And I’m all out of dogs,” is what I imagine the protagonist of Slipgate Ironworks’ GRAVEN telling anyone who’ll listen. “I have come here to pet dogs and kick wooden crates.
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Author: Tim Halliday Category: Action, Adventure, Articles, News, PC News, PC-Categories, Retro, Shooter, Date: 18th December, 2020
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