Rise of Rebellion review – In a world where gods once ruled and dragons soared, the wrath of the earth has reshaped destiny. This single-player 3D action RPG challenges players to reclaim their homeland, wielding melee combat mastery and harnessing Tel energy to overcome formidable foes.

Rise of Rebellion Review: Pros

• Decent graphics.
• 9.75GB download size.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, v-sync, motion blur, frame rate limit, frame rate limit background, graphics preset, 3D resolution, global illumination, shadows, anti-aliasing, view distance, textures, effects, reflections, and post processing.
• Colourblind support.
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, five button layouts (Xbox/Joycon/Switch Pro/dualsense/ds4). You can remap the controls.
• Mouse and keyboard support, you can remap them.
• Gameplay difficulty for enemy speed and parry/evade.
• 3 save slots.
• A rich, full 3D game world, and you have 360-degree camera control.
• Action-adventure gameplay.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play, ranging from text to videos.
• Quite an open world, it allows a lot of exploration.
• Combat is trying to go for DARK souls like, but it’s a bit more hack and slash than that. You do have dodge, block, and parties to counter enemies, along with a combo system of mixing low and high damage attacks.
• Pickups can be found around the world.
• Having the game set to show the buttons at all times can help ease you in.
• You can lock onto enemies to help make combat a bit less stressful.
• Ley lines are structures you save to heal, and they also respawn all enemies defeated.
• Unlock and use fast travel points within the Ley lines.
• During combat, you can earn AP (action points) and spend them on powerful special attacks.
• Find journals with lore in them.
• Cool healing animation, you slam your sword into the ground.
• Parrie, when timed (a mission in itself), allows you to deal massive damage to an enemy.
• Assign items to the hotbar to use them in a pinch.
• Unlock shortcuts in the world.
• Pull off perfect dodges and do crushing blow attacks.
• Glintstone is the health item that slowly heals you, they are blue orbs within the world.
• I am now going against my own word, but oh well, when I nail the combo and get a load of hits in the combat, not only looks good, it feels good, but man, it’s a rare feeling.
• Tel Energy, which is condensed wrath of Earth’s core, drops from certain enemies or in chests, and this is used to put points into the skill tree.
• It may not be the most upbeat world or full of life, but it does look really cool, the architecture is good, and the clever level designs for shortcuts, etc, are brilliant.
• Cutscene intros for bosses are something else, and I wish the game had more like this.
• You can change the game settings at any time with no penalty to the core gameplay.

Rise of Rebellion Review: Cons

• No Steam achievements.
• A lot of the menus have Japanese text, especially all the graphics settings, so you don’t really know what you are doing. I must note this seems to happen sometimes, so a reboot fixes it, but it’s a weird bug.
• No benchmark tool for graphics.
• I found trying to get a cheeky block or parry attempt into a combo string to be hard, as the game wouldn’t always pick up the button press.
• When locked onto someone in combat, it causes the camera to go crazy and follow the swings and misses of every attack.
• The feedback on taking damage is not clear and in any way helpful, mostly because there isn’t any.
• Anymore than one enemy, and it gets very messy.
• Constant hitches when breaking boxes and dealing with built-up areas.
• Combat is just not fun, even with magic powers; it just never feels fluid or connected. It’s frustrating and not satisfying.
• The world is Lifeless and has no atmosphere to it; it’s just an empty world with enemies randomly placed in it, and it’s all very bland.
• Fighting when falling causes glitches like falling through walls and floors or enemy bodies staying in a fighting posture.
• Ley lines (checkpoints) are very far apart, and I think the game wants you to concentrate more on unlocking shortcuts.

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Rise of Rebellion～地罰上らば竜の降る～

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Developer: Team 疾鷹

Publisher: Kodansha

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