9th Dawn Remake Review: Dive into Dungeon Crawling Perfection!

Step into the continent of Montelorne, where the shadows of the Castle of Maltyr stretch long and the loot flows like ale in a tavern. 9th Dawn Remake invites players into a sprawling 2.5D open world teeming with dungeon-crawling chaos, pet-hatching hijinks, and deck-building duels. Whether you’re slinging spells, crafting gear, or commanding worm-warriors in a bullet-heaven fishing mini-game, this reimagined classic doesn’t just remake it reinvents. Let’s dive into the guts and glory of this indie RPG beast.

9th Dawn Remake Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 718.3GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
• Four save slots.
• Graphics settings – GUI scale slider, and pet HP bars.
• Local two-player support.
• First-person settings – A field of view slider, and you can invert the axis.
• Character creator – hair type, hair colour, and skin colour.
• Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
• Game setup – enemy density can be set to classic (low) or modern (high), along with treasure type set to default, randomised, and set from seed.
• Online Co-op support, and you can host or join.
• Adventure RPG gameplay.
• Tutorial signs are scattered around the world.
• Loot chest contents can be looted individually or all at once.
• Twin stock controls for fighting.
• You have a huge selection of gear slots – four rings, head, arms, necklace, boots, body, bow, arrows, two relics, and two weapon slots.
• Many Breakable objects in the world that can drop items.
• Find map fragments to fill in the map and mini-map.
• Bloodspawn is a place you activate, and it becomes your respawn point. You can’t miss them, a lot of red.
• Fog of war is in play, meaning parts of the level and map don’t show until you move and explore them.
• Very easy to get into the game thanks to simple controls and an inviting gameplay introduction.
• In-game character interaction, you can click through them to speed it up.
• A fascinating world to explore.
• Each area on the map has a completion score.
• Fast travel points can be found and used.
• You do have missions, both the main story and side, but you can just go off and do what you want.
• Command-line prompt setting.
• Force the death button.
• Day/night cycle and weather effects.
• Rolling info bar of what’s killed or picked up.
• Shortcut items use the system of holding a button and then pressing the assigned shortcut button.
• Clear bars showing exp, health, etc.
• Save when you want.
• Skills will go up as you use those weapons in battle.
• Dungeon entrances are everywhere.
• Earn EXP and level up to get attribute points to distribute.
• Crafting- find recipes and make weapons/armour/items.
• Main quests and optional side quests.
• A lot of loot.
• Fishing Survivors mini-game – unlock new water types (quiet, etc) and you have a seperate progress bar for this mode. Four playable classes, and it plays like Vampire Survivors. That is, it’s an auto-attacking survival game where you move around killing enemies and collecting orbs to level up and get loot.
• full of atmosphere.
• Collect eggs and hatch them, then get a pet that follows you around.
• Big boss encounters.
• The game has its own card game battler in the towns. You can collect cards in the world to use them.
• Buy and sell weapons and gear with vendors in towns.
• It’s possible to wear sets of clothing by getting all the pieces.
• Craft weapons and potions that can heal or give you buffs.
• It’s possible to have an army of pets following you around, attacking enemies for you.
• The game world is either a third-person 2.5D game World or a full first-person 3D game World.
• Ability orbs can be collected and spent on upgrading stats. You can respect them whenever you want.
• I like that the cursor snaps between menu options; it makes navigating them somewhat easier.
• The game is a huge time sink, and it’s one adventure you want to take, as you always find new reasons to keep going and more new stuff to do.

9th Dawn Remake Review Cons:

• Going between first and third person is a menu choice, and for that reason, I forget it exists half the time.
• Even in a single-player game, you cannot pause the game.
• Enemies respawn quickly.
• Can feel lost a lot of the time.
• Shortcut buttons are not always ideal, as you need to press a button beforehand to activate them, as it were.
• There is way too much food loot, meaning loads of small HP recovery food.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Inventory management is clunky, even with the smoother control.
• You cannot zoom in on the map.
• Not the greatest signposting for finding objectives.
• Dungeons all feel the same.
• The first person takes some getting used to.
• I found the controller to not always be great with the combat. Not very precise or consistent.

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Developer: Valorware

Publisher: Valorware

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