However, you don’t get all of the Bergsons outright, as their availability is dictated by the narrative. Then there is Mark, a fisticuffs-type monk, who’s also light on his feet and hits really hard Joey is a berserker-type sledgehammer-wielding dude who suits those who like a high-risk, high-reward style of play and Lucy is your mage, who arguably requires the most patience out of the lot, due to her slow charge-up area-of-effect spells that deal massive damage.Įach Bergson has their merits and flaws, and it is up to you to weigh out those pros and cons and figure out which play style suits you best. John is your typical balanced, shield-and-board warrior-type with tons of defense but no mobility his firstborn Linda is quite the opposite, being a bow-user with superb ranged capabilities and more movement while the younger son Kevin is a nimble dual-wielding, dagger chucking rogue who gets faster the more he hits things. In this case, it’s a matter of picking your preferred playstyle. The striking feature here is, of course, the ability to switch between the different Bergsons. Children of Morta’s gameplay loop is no different.
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The game establishes, through a series of drop-dead gorgeous pixel art and animation, as well as some crisp voice acting by a Narrator, that the land around Mount Morta has been afflicted once more by the Corruption.Īs with any roguelike action-RPG, your typical gameplay loop is to hack and slash anything and everything that is coming at you with the intent of hacking and slashing you in kind, and then getting overwhelmed and dying soon after, and then trying again. No, this is not the most original of plots by any regard, but it doesn’t matter, as the way it’s conveyed more than makes up for it. Well, good news because it’s definitely up there among the best.Ĭhildren of Morta is yet another entry in the now densely-populated action-RPG school of video games but instead of playing as a single protagonist as with the aforementioned three indie titles, players take on the roles of various members of the Bergson family, who are sworn protectors of Mount Morta, and are charged with containing the Corruption from spreading throughout the rest of the land. Regardless, another has joined the mix but with so many titles, including indie darlings such as Hyperlight Drifter, Bastion and Moonlighter already refining and redefining the genre to kingdom come, how does Children of Morta by Dead Mage compare? Is it an aesthetic intention, an attempt at nostalgia, or is it because such graphics are easier and cheaper to produce? Unsurprisingly, dungeon crawling action-RPGs are also accompanied by 8-bit and 16-bit pixel graphics that hearken us back to the heyday of the likes of The Legend of Zelda, Chrono Trigger and the like.
These days, the roguelike genre of video games is rather saturated.
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