Review: Creature In The Well (Xbox One)
Creature in the Well is a top-down, pinball-inspired, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. As the last remaining BOT-C unit, venture deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility, haunted by a desperate Creature. Uncover and upgrade powerful gear in order to free the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm.
Pros:
- Cool cel-shaded graphics.
- 3.8gb download size.
- Pinball action game.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- 3 save slots.
- Gimmick-you can walk around like a typical adventure game but you go into rooms, and hit/charge balls up and hit pylons and items to restore power and reward you with power points to open new doors.
- Customization-capes/charge tools/strike tools and core.
- Strong puzzle element.
- The map fills out as you explore and unlock rooms.
- Difficult.
- Hitting cores ( balls) strike it or charge up the hit and get a directional arrow.
- Enemies/obstacles are generally laser type enemies that you can turn to be on your side.
- Death-reset at the hub.
- Hub section opens up as you play, shop and quests, etc.
- A fun spin on the genre.
- Satisfying when you get the power back in one hit.
- Boss encounters.
- Clean Ui and Hud.
- Play how you want with the player choice on progression a thing, choose a door/path.
- Fun to play.
- Cool strike weapons like frying pans, bats and sticks.
Cons:
- Difficult.
- Kind of left to figure it out yourself.
- Frustrating sections.
- Don’t get health back after death instead you have to constantly find a health pool.
- It feels repetitive with little variation.
