Sure, it’d work on PS Vita because it’s such a pick up and play game, but despite the visuals being less than stellar, this is a PC-game, indeed, it’s the kind of game you only get on PC, even nowadays. There’s no GamePad support either, but you can stick the idea of playing a game this fast with a gamepad right up your jacksy, quite frankly. It’s not much to look at, but the audio is oppressively bleak and violent, I sure as shit wouldn’t want to play it with headphones on.

But for god sake don’t look at replays of the best player on the leaderboards, as you’ll hang up your mouse for good – these people are geniuses. I want my friends to play this game, I want them to send me messages about how they’ve beaten me, then I’ll boot the game up and spend time trying to beat them back, then send them a picture of my time, maybe with an added message that simply says “fuck you”. Random on that leaderboard and think you can beat him, and eventually you will – hopefully. You’ll want to put it down, you’ll want to escape the horrors, but then you’ll see Mr. From the first 20 second run to the near minute-long run that sees you first meet the spiders, to the bosses (there are apparently lots, but I’ll never see more than one, I suspect), it’s a chase against the random people on the leaderboards, and your friends. After you die (and you die more frequently than you do in a FromSoft game) you’re met with a screen that shows you how many enemies you killed, but more importantly, how long you lasted. You can jump around as you run, gaining momentum a bit (I’m not sure if it’s in my head or not at this point) but ultimately this is a score attack game. Holding the left mouse button will fire it like a machine gun, but clicking once will cause a shotgun-like blast to explode from the end of your fingers, which is the very weapon that keeps you from death, and presumably your “Devil Daggers”, but honestly, it doesn’t matter. The controls are simple, and so is that one gun. As you collect them, your weapon will upgrade. Then horned evil joins them, and not long after that, a venomous, disgusting spider that actually swallows up the gems you’re trying to get.Īnd that’s important, because those red gems are the key to getting further. Spinning spires that vomit out a cascade of enemies are the first you’ll see, but there’s an objective here, and the red diamond shape that each larger enemy has on their person is the key to taking them down. The concept is beyond simple: it’s a high speed, Quake-like first-person shooter that throws you into a dark, vaguely circular arena and throws wave after wave of horrible enemies that seem to spawn from hell and will kill you if they touch you. Twitch based shooters have been done before, and probably looked a lot better, but it’s not often that they will absorb you so deeply, causing random ten minute sessions to warp into demonic, sweaty palmed, lengthy sessions. The frenetic speed and the monstrous difficulty of Devil Daggers is apparent that soon into playing it.

It’s rare that you can play a game for six minutes and totally, completely understand it.

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