Palworld's next game has Hollow Knight Vibes (Never Grave Review)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- You can download the demo right here:
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Pocketpair are riding the hype wave of their smash hit Palworld directly into the face of its new game Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse which they quietly released a demo for the other day onto Steam. With this release they're already greasing up their buttholes for a fresh round of comparisons this time with Indy darling Hollow Knight. Which is good because that last Pokemon conversation officially entered dead horse beating territory when PETA offered a guide on how to play Palworld in a vegan way. Could someone go tell PETA they're beating dead horses? I think they'd appreciate the joke.
Officially Never Grave is getting worked on by an internal team called Frontside 180 spun up for this project specifically. So pocket pair is just being listed as the publisher. One look at the trailer and you see that any hollow knight inspirations are tangible enough for me to squeeze a fairly honest clickbait thumbnail out of it but mechanically skin deep. I finally watched that Silksong trailer, holy god damn. That’s my review of that.
Anyway, you play as a hat that can reanimate things, Not to be confused with that pervert hat from super mario odyssey. You can jump off your Bravely Default Reject witch girl at the top of a jump to get extra height, and then poop her out the bottom of the hat again at will. So no need to worry about complicated puzzle shenanigans. Critters can also be possessed and wielded. according to the trailer showing the unincluded multiplayer mode monster possession is how most of your buddies are going to support you during a dive.
The gameloop follows the roguelite city builder system of delving a random dungeon and then coming back at death to upgrade the town and your abilities. During your run you can pick from temporary buffs to augment your build or resurrections to elongate your chances. Occasionally branching accesses to lower levels will boost enemies and drop rates for better risk and reward. There are two main hubs. The first is a church full of portals to different rooms of horror just like in real life (Just like the ones I tell my therapist about). The other leads to your little hand placed town made using blueprints you slowly acquire. You can place little walls and windows and stuff but I just piled everything uncomfortably close to the door for maximum inefficiency so I could keep clicking on the wrong thing.
You can grow crops which require watering and time, so you have some lovely little chores to do between dives. You need the resources from farming to pay off later upgrades in your skill tree and cooked meals at town can give you a buff for the next run.
While I enjoy titles where my characters growth is represented in-game by something tangible I'm not personally a fan of getting threatened with agriculture. As a rat I'm a proud scavenger.
The animations are cute and the gathering is serviceable enough. I'm interested to see how they handle multiplayer. The only real fault I can find with the game at the moment is some weird audio stuttering
THe demo is long enough to get feel for the game loop but data won't carry over to the main game when it releases within the next few months. So do as my dad did when he looked down at newborn me, don't get attached to it at all.
If this isn't the game for you, just wait for their next title game next week which will be probably be Modern Warfare 3 but with farming.
This game looks like it’s ripping off hollow knight Mario and dead cells all at once
Edit I can’t type
Damn, what the hell. How did I not know this channel existed. It has such a homie yet professional vibe. Instant sub
love your stuff as always.
side point: imo the name for “roguelikes with a town” is “roguelite”. now, technically a roguelite is any roguelike with any kind of permanent progression (so there’s some wiggle room for debate) but most of them do it with towns
Totally yeah pretty much! Roguelite is such a massive catch-all it feels like cheating to settle with that haha. Let's go with that till someone in the comments just straight up invents a hyper specific term =P
welp, 2d platformers live and die by their level design. the gimmicks seem promising enough but it will just depend on how they tie it all together.
Totally. I think what will make the game actually stand out in a sea of competitors will be the multiplayer dives. I feel like that's its only big edge. But we'll have to wait and see if they can stick the landing on that one.
Been quietly watching for a long while now, loving the stuff. Introduced your videos to my boyfriend and he likes them too.
Thanks for dropping this message, It really made my day like you wouldn't believe
Rat vibes are as chill as ever. :)
goob vid, always appreciate the laid back vibes and conversational feel :)
this game loosely reminds me of another demo thats been popping off recently (maybe it's more adjacent to slay the spire) - have u seen Balatro? Its another rougelike, it's pretty tight and the demo's like 2 hours
I hadn't heard of it no, downloading it now!
so a hollow knight inspired metroidvania × rouge like (or lite idk)
As long as this isn't them deciding they earned their money on palworld and they're just going to abandon development of it to go work on something else, I don't really care.
Aside from it being a 2d platformer I don't see much similarities to hollow knight. That'd be about as stupid as saying hollow knight copied Dust or Ori. And nobody really complained when Ori 2 actually just copied mechanics from hollowknight.
Metroidvania is likely the word, but looks decent enough though I don't really like the games as much, prefer survival and Palworld makes that itch disappear
I feel like I wasn't the only one who wanted to play hollow Knight multiplayer without mods (I play on a PS4), so it will indeed be interesting to see if this game shows us something new and exciting without being a buggy mess. Who knows, it could go multi-platform
Also coping the fact that we don't know much about silk song *
nice video
silksong?
There is a pretty funny dude who tries to play games in a vegan way on YT! I bet you would like his content (won't mention his name as not to make this look like a plug)
Is... Is it you? Lol, Plug away! It's a great concept tbh
@@bigrathole Nah, but its Poor Dunce :)
I'll check em out! Another small youtuber! Every plug counts =P
@@bigrathole I love watching small YTbers, you pour a lot of soul into your videos
It looks good... Some of the ideas are unique. I just can't bring myself to patronize this company on account of their unoriginality. I haven't seen an original title from Pocket Pair yet.
I think palworld is quite original really, it steals A LOT from Pokémon, won't deny that, but it sprinkles in enough other stuff to turn it into a completely different thing.
Even though I've played a bit of Pokémon, palworld still feels like a very new experience, more new than most games I play.