Dive into Mortal Rite: Early Access Preview and First Impressions
Step into the immersive world of Mortal Rite Preview, where intense battles, breathtaking visuals, and gripping gameplay await. In our review, we dive deep into this Early Access title, exploring what makes it a must-play experience for fans of action-packed adventures. Read on to uncover the highlights, surprises, and why this game deserves your attention.
Mortal Rite Preview Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 11.89GB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – quality preset, DLSS, window mode, resolution, brightness slider, chromatic aberration, depth of field, frame rate limit, show fps, v-sync, and motion blur slider.
- Advanced graphic settings – resolution scale, global illumination, shadows, anti aliasing, effects, and reflections.
- Colourblind support.
- Audio settings – 3D headphones support, high dynamic range audio, select output device, and background audio.
- Controller settings – set button icons to Xbox or Playstation, vibration, Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, and you can remap the controls.
- Mouse and keyboard settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, targeting sensitivity, and you can remap the controls.
- Two ways to play – online or offline.
- Online can be set to public or friends only, and you can set your region.
- A full 3D game world with 360 degrees camera control.
- Action RPG gameplay.
- Tutorial pop ups as you play.
- Souls like combat, learning patterns, dodge rolling, and stamina management.
- The pickups look awesome with a shimmering blue sphere.
- You kick open treasure chests and at times they can fly off into the world which is bad ass.
- The game uses the shoulder buttons for attacking and blocking.
- Excellent lighting work.
- Mortal strike is a finisher or execution style move you can do on a weakened enemy, and it triggers a sequence.
- The whole game moves at a solid, fast pace, the controls and movement are precise and tight.
- You play in a third-person view.
- The main character you play is an initiate, but you can embody a hero to get powerful.
- You can see enemy health and stamina bars.
- Three hero choices – each has unique abilities and each is a specific class – rock, metal, and fire.
- Damage numbers pop up for both you and the enemies.
- The ability shop lets you spend ability points on new abilities, and you can assign them to the buttons.
- Messages can and are left on the floor.
- Tests you might set pieces are wave-based events.
- Fast loading times.
- When you die, you get a brief breakdown of your performance.
- Generous checkpoints.
- Alden’s retreat is your safe area and here you can swap out your hero, item management, speak with characters, etc.
- PVP arena, you can enter and take on factions.
- Areas you go through in the game are big open areas full of secrets, you can explore and do as you want.
- Health bar system, and you can use potions to replenish, and they can drop from enemies.
- As you play the game, you start at floor one and then try to go up floor by floor.
- Death resets your run back to floor one.
- Combat can look spectacular once you finally get to grips with it.
- A death counter shows when you die.
- Pick up and collect resources and materials.
- Enemies can drop items.
- You keep picking up items after death.
- The enemies can and will fight each other.
- A promising game and one to keep an eye on.
Mortal Rite Preview Cons:
- You cannot pause the game even in offline solo.
- Combat really shows its limits when you are facing more than one person.
- I found the FIA character in particular was loose in combat, the movement and time to attack felt off and it caused more frustration than anything.
- Timing and parries are really tricky, it doesn’t help they there is a kind of delay when executing an attempt.
- I think the lock on camera doesn’t work well, it never really picks up the closest enemy, and does transfer between multiple enemies particularly well. The camera and the lock-on mechanic are working independently, and it makes for a trying time.
- The camera can just go mad at times.
- Small claustrophobic arenas.
- Judging enemy attacks is not easy.
- Combat is constantly limited by the stamina as you use it up so quickly.
- Some of the atmosphere gets broken when you can see the enemy health bars from a great distance, it just means you know what is there and it’s not as you would want.
- Constant difficulty spikes.
- The inventory and character menus are very dense.
- A few times I’ve had it where when I reload I start auto running.
- Great ideas, but it just needs to tighten and hone the basics.
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Mortal Rite:
Developer: Roundtoast Studios
Publisher: Roundtoast Studios
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