Hand of Fate 2 badly needs a gentler tutorial mode for those of reduced talent! However, after some practice, I was able to respond to the enemies’ telegraphed attacks with the appropriate blocks or dodges (even if I still too easily fall into the habit of mashing the attack button on the odd occasion!). As a result, I became very familiar with the opening 20 minutes of the game, which includes the same unskippable cinematic, voiceover and character customisation. Perhaps I am just not very good at this type of brawler combat, I am too easily seduced into mashing the attack button, but it took me a good two and a half hours to complete this initial challenge. However, as soon as I reached for the XBox 360 controller I have wired into my PC, things became immediately far more intuitive. Perhaps I am too used to shooters with WASD controls but I struggled to remember which key did what. My first impressions of the keyboard and mouse controls were that there were extremely fiddly. Health persists across the whole challenge and so if your hero suffers too many wounds in an early encounter, you would be well advised to restart the game entirely.
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I must confess it took me some time to get past this first series of encounters. The first challenge, “The Fool” serves as an introduction in which the game reveals many of the different encounter types some are games of chance, determined by the drawing of further cards or rolling of dice others are story based encounters made up of player’s choice and others still are combat encounters where the player takes on a range of enemies in a small arena. The candle-lit tavern setting is reminiscent of the start of a thousand fantasy stories but with one significant difference: the entire adventure will take place on the table in front of you. While the graphics are not perhaps what they might be in a so-called Triple A release, they are rich, detailed and atmospheric. You are sat at a table in a dark lamp-lit room opposite the mysterious Dealer, who is surrounded by cards, dice, and tokens.
The game is split into 22 challenges, or “Paths of wisdom and despair”, each of which is made up of encounters represented by playing cards.Īs the game starts a sonorous (almost Jeremy Irons-a-like) voice-over from the Dealer, voiced by Anthony Skordi, tells us he has “clawed his way back beyond the 13 gates to the mortal realm” for his revenge (referencing the final battle of Hand of Fate). The game is presented as a card game with the player taking on a mysterious dealer.
Or, to put it another way, Hand Of Fate 2 is a clever amalgamation of all sorts of video game genres. Hand Of Fate 2 is an indie, fantasy rogue-like, deck-building, brawler, action adventure RPG with a framing narrative. Release Date: Available Now (PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 (NA)), 9th November 2017 (PlayStation 4 (EU)), TBC (Xbox One).Also Available On: Xbox One, Playstation 4, Mac, Linux.
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