![]() Your party member could end up,for example: When a party member reaches 100 (out of 200) stress,they have a high chance of becoming afflicted,radically changing their behavior,dropping stats,and possibly even disobeying direct orders from you,the player. Being forced to dig a way through a caved-in hallway using their bare hands because you forgot (or worse,chose not to) provide shovels for them to use. ![]() A skeleton forcing you to drink expired grape juice from a rusty goblet.Fighting a blind mad man who shows you where his eyes went by opening his hands and letting his eyeballs drop to the floor to stare at you.A curious party member finding a strange book on a shelf while looting,and upon reading it, learning the futility of their existence.Running out of torches in the pitch-black dungeons far away from the exit.Whenever your party goes into a dungeon, a plethora of very bad things can happen that can cause stress to your party. This is best exemplified in by far the game’s most iconic and interesting mechanic,the Stress meter. You see,the thing that Darkest Dungeon wants to teach players the most is that maybe, just maybe, dungeon crawling isn’t the most stable of careers for an adventurer who wants to have a shot at being healthy or sane for the foreseeable future. Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft and even Pokemon(!) for crying out loud, as well as numerous other RPGs would have you believe that adventuring in the deepest of monster-filled places is of no consequence, and no matter how many times your party gets wiped,you can just bounce back and try again without even a hint of remorse for the punishment you let your party experience due to your bad leadership. Darkest Dungeon focuses on the humanity and psychological vulnerability of the heroes and asks: What emotional toll does a life of adventure take? The HookĪs the above states, Darkest Dungeon is, as far as most video games go, a more “realistic” take on the dungeon crawler genre. You will send out teams of recruited heroes on a perilous side-scrolling descent, dealing with a prodigious number of threats to their bodily health, and worse, a relentless assault on their mental fortitude! Five hundred feet below the earth you will not only fight unimaginable foes, but famine, disease, and the stress of the ever-encroaching dark. Your goal is to drive back these horrors and redeem the family name. You are the heir of a former noble family, damned due to the actions of a hedonistic relative who spent the family fortune excavating an ancient portal underneath the family estate and inadvertently releasing an untold number of horrifying abominations. What’s the Game?ĭarkest Dungeon is a challenging Gothic Horror Dungeon Crawling RPG about the stresses of dungeon crawling, developed by Red Hook Studios. If you’re busy,you can skip to the Verdict at the end of the post for my summary on it. In my haste to clear out SOME OF THE GAMES I’ve bought last holiday season,I chose to enter into the dark and horror infested hallways of, the Darkest Dungeon. Lumi’s note: Hey-oh, I was gone for a week for reasons that you guys won’t find terribly interesting, so I’ll just skip it and tell you about what I did last week! Don’t worry, the weekly recap will resume as usual tomorrow, with episodes 4-5 of Kaguya, Mob Psycho 100 and Go-Toubun of the last two weeks reviewed.
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