Scar-Lead Salvation Review – Locked, Loaded, and Looping!
Scar-Lead Salvation review – Stranded in a military complex bursting with bots and mystery, Willow’s fight for freedom is anything but quiet! Dodge, dash, parry, and unleash Onslaught Mode while you climb through procedurally generated chaos on a journey of rediscovery—because every reload comes with a risk!
Scar-Lead Salvation Review Pros
- Decent Anime graphics.
- 1.89GB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Japanese and English voice choice.
- Action shooter roguelike gameplay.
- Opening the tutorial section and ongoing pop-ups, and a centralised help menu.
- Anime cutscenes and in-game interactions.
- Third-person view.
- A full 3D game world, and you have 360-degree camera control.
- You can pause the game.
- Mirage shift is a move where you move forward at a pace, leaving hologram outlines of yourself behind. It looks cool and helps you navigate the world.
- You can aim down sights in combat and do melee.
- Enemies and micro armoury boxes can drop random loot and health items.
- Two types of items drop – one that you auto pick up and one you have to press a button to pick up, and they can disappear over time.
- Exo force drivers – pick these up and they auto-equip and are like abilities and passive.
- Exo skills are specifically equipped by you and are new attacks and defensive abilities. Picking up the same Exo skill will level it up, and you can change out Exo skills by picking up a new one.
- The Exo force accumulates over time, and once full, you press a button to go into onslaught mode, where you become temporarily invincible and do more damage.
- Parry projectiles with your melee weapon to have them disappear instantly.
- Bullet hell style enemy encounters.
- The game moves at a fast, stable pace.
- When you die, you lose all items except story-related key items, Exo skills found, and your secondary weapon.
- The map randomises each life and fills in as you play.
- You are in this facility that is ever changing, and you have lost your memory and are slowly piecing it back together.
- You can invert the camera axis and sensitivity sliders.
- The minimap can be set to rotate or be fixed.
- Decent loading times.
- The voice work is good.
- Loot will come in rarities and colour, power and stats can vary from weapon to weapon even if they are the same one.
- When you warp to a new area, there will be a device that will create a weapon that usually gives you an upgrade to the weapon you have.
- Many different weapon types.
- Find special or hidden warps to get to special rooms with rewards or things to purchase.
- Collect lore entries to find out what’s going on.
- Slight platforming elements and timed jumps.
Scar-Lead Salvation Review Cons
- You cannot remap the controls.
- The tutorial section is slow and has an annoying hold-down button to dismiss messages.
- The first gun you get is bad; it’s a shotgun and is completely different from the rifle you learn with.
- Reading the drop info on an item or skill is less than ideal and not clear especially if you happen to be in battle.
- The combat takes so long to get better at early doors, it’s boring, slow, and repetitive.
- The banter between the AI and your character is flat and not great to listen to.
- Walking through corridors after every room is so boring and dull; it’s repetitive.
- I found the whole gameplay loop to not be that entertaining. Upgrades are slow to appear, the time between encounters is too much, and having the same encounters over and over is also tedious.
- Healing is far and few between, and when you do get it, it’s so small and insignificant.
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Scar-Lead Salvation:
Developer: Idea Factory, Compile Heart, Neilo Inc.
Publisher: Idea Factory International
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