HunterX Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · August 2, 2022

For our, HunterX Review discover that on the night of the deep purple moon, a girl who appears to be an ordinary teenager goes out for another devil hunt. While chasing her prey, she comes across a crack that leads to another world, and the adventure of her destiny begins. Explore and make your own route through a large, organically connected world! Your teammates are waiting for you in a world of riddles and terrible devils.

HunterX Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
1.4GB download size.
Own in-game achievements.
Metroidvania platformer gameplay.
Ongoing tutorials.
Map fills in as you play.
Loot chests can be found for umm loot.
Save points unlock as you play.
Karma is earned by killing enemies and smashing the orbs found in the level.
Use Karma to upgrade stats from the level-up screen found at the save points.
Level up to also get skill points to put into a skill tree to get new abilities.
Big boss battles.
Traces – find them in the world and they grant new powers.
Equipment load out is versatile with weapon, occult 1 and 2, and two accessories slots.
Your equipped equipment adjusts and adds buffs and/or abilities.
Traditional hack and slash combat with a bit of magic mixed in and a strong dodge mechanic.
Occult powers are attained from boss battles and use mana to cast.
Leaving and returning to a screen will reset enemies and orbs to smash.
A lot of the time you will be going back on yourself as you have new powers that open up new parts of old areas.
Parry perfectly to stun enemies and do bonus damage.
Decent soundtrack.
The game on the whole runs really well, it’s smooth and very responsive.

HunterX Review Cons:

No touchscreen support.
Takes some getting used to.
Can’t rebind the controls.
Difficulty spikes.
Enemies respawning so quickly can be a hindrance.
Enemy projectiles can go through walls and floors.
Few weak areas.
Can feel lost.

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HunterX:

Official website.

Developer: Orange Popcorn

Publisher: Orange Popcorn

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8/10

Graphics - 8/10
8/10

Sound - 8/10
8/10

Accessibility - 8/10
8/10

Length - 8/10
8/10

Fun Factor - 8/10

8/10

Summary

HunterX is one of the best surprises this year, it’s a Metroidvania that starts off like all the other, hack and slash combat coupled with a lot of platforming. This is how I thought it was going to be, earn Karma and level up get better stats, and fight bosses. What I didn’t factor in as it did take a while is the Occult stuff, it’s magic-based attacks and abilities that you can wield and it really mixes it up, it has cool summoning/casting animations but it’s the actual abilities themselves that are cool. It’s a game that can be accused of playing it safe for a large part but honestly once you make real progress on the skill tree it becomes an accomplished solid affair. Combat turns into fast-paced encounters complete with parrying and dashing through enemies, platforming becomes more important for attacks and it generally just gets a bit more streamlined and significant. The start ramp is a steep one but the end game is a Slick fast-paced highly addictive game that draws and rightly so a comparison with the Castlevania games especially Symphony Of The Night more because of the level structure and depth of locations. Don’t sleep on HunterX it is a fantastic must-play Metroidvania!