Games often tend to cannibalize each other all the time: one of the examples being the amount of Genshin and Breath of the Wild clones have shown up for your proof. It’s worth noting that the clear emphasis here that Reply Game Studios chose something good, not popular. Soulstice lifted the mechanics with enough care that the homage feels genuine and more importantly, feel fun for the player. While the inputs are pretty similar to Devil May Cry, it’s fine because Devil May Cry is also one of the greatest action games that’s ever been made. It’s here that Soulstice really shines, from the preview, while none of its ideas are inherently new, it’s made sure to base its identity on good source materials. Going more into Briar having a robust moveset, she has a launcher, air juggle, a stinger as well as a jump cancel which all makes for a combat system that makes you want to show off and not just to get to the end of the level. Unlike many action games, it looks like Reply Game Studios have really put in the thought and care into the combat mechanics to make it more than just your average 3 hit combo. She comes with a pretty robust moveset the features both light and heavy attacks as well as a mechanic where you can cancel your light attack into a heavy attack. Meanwhile there was also a red aura too but the effects of that still remains a mystery to me.Īlthough, what I was familiar with would be the sword combat that Briar mains.

As a result, there are some systems where I can’t answer to what they actually do.įrom my observations playing through the preview for Soulstice, I was able to give myself a blue aura that seems to float my character up higher a little, though that might have been just a placebo on my end.

The other obstacle was the complications of being at a loud event as well as not being able to hear and let alone understand my demo attendant. Despite being a huge weeb, I unfortunately still don’t understand a lick of Japanese. Follow I played through the game’s very first level, there were a few obstacles that had been standing in my way, one of which was the fact that the game’s demo text were all in Japanese.

Sword with sauce demo