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You can equip an ever-increasing number of these from your collection, adding in bonuses such as increased melee damage, health rewarded for kills, longer buff duration, and the like. They rely on your building up Overdrive – a yellow meter that is gained through combat (or time, if wearing a particular outfit), and then let you fling magical boomerangs, put up defensive shields, rain down fireballs, and so on. These are demonic abilities Vran possesses thanks to a devilish pact he made in his youth. Alongside weapons are the usual array of potions, then Vran’s own unique extras.įirst up are Powers. Two can be equipped at any time, meaning you’ll likely have a melee and ranged at the ready, switching out for others when required for a particular challenge. Amongst the weapons are swords, rapiers, hammers, shotguns, mortars and lightning guns, each with their distinct attributes, later possible to be augmented through sacrificing their kin, and of course graded from grey through to purple. However, so many are the enemies and things to do that you’ll still end up dragging a big haul back to the merchants in the hub after every trip.

Rather, they’re rewarded for completing challenges, killing bigger foes, or opening chests. Weapons (armour is a very rare addition) don’t come flying out of every enemy. The list of challenges is the reason to be anywhere, rather than the notional “main quest” that really appears to be “Go there, then come back again, then go there.” That, and of course the real reason anyone plays an ARPG – incrementally improving loot. From a central hub of a room in her palace, you go off to new zones on spurious reasons, while the ghost of King Keyhat waffles nonsense and oh look eventually I stopped even listening.Īnd that’s the best choice, really, as proper goals are there none. Some place, infested with demons and beasties, after Princess Placeholder accidentally spilt a bottle of fizzy pop or something. And where is he? Zorogoroeogovovvia or something. So spare and completely dismissible is the attempt at a narrative that it doesn’t remember to explain who Victor Vran (you) is, nor why he’s there, until about a dozen hours in. In fact, I’m struggling to think of a more “just cos” plot in years. Challenges start requiring that one or a few are switched on for the star to be earned.īut we’re getting ahead of ourselves. After a few levels, Hexes are added, which are voluntary additions that make the game harder – monsters get tougher, or faster, or you get weaker, and so on. The further you get in, the more specific these tasks get, and the harder they are.

Indeed, if it’s not “Find 5 secrets” then it’s going to begin with “Slay”. Things like, “Slay monsters within 120 seconds (0/50)”, “Slay monsters without using potions or demon powers (0/80)”, or “Slay essences of fire with ranged attacks (0/5)”. Then each contains five or six further zones, they too with their own to-do list of five. Large sprawling areas, of which there are many, come with a list of five challenges to try to complete within.

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With the Van Helsing series making great work of combining the genre with tower defence (no, really, it works, and I hate tower defence) and others inevitably chasing the collectable card game angle, Victor Vran takes it’s own spin on things: challenges. Few manage to join the elite group of Diablo, Fate, Torchlight, Path Of Exile and Titan Quest, which is a less great thing. There are lots of ARPGs around at the moment. But is it a successful one? Here’s wot I think:

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Out of Early Access and in a full release, action RPG Victor Vran is big diversion for Tropico developers Haemimont Games.