Silent Hope Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

For our Silent Hope Review, we hear of when One day, a terrible calamity struck a peaceful kingdom. In the chaos that followed, the people began to deceive and backstab each other. Their King used his powerful magic to steal away people’s ability to speak and hurled himself into the Abyss. His daughter, the Princess, cried an endless flood of tears until they encased her in a giant crystal teardrop.

Silent Hope Review Pros:

• Decent chibi graphics.
• 1.8GB Download size.
• Japanese or English voice choice.
• Subtitles – display and/or callouts.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• Can rebind controls.
• Anime cutscenes, mixed with in-game interactions.
• Strong voice acting.
• A screenshake can be turned on and off.
• Song lyrics can be shown if you wish when a song comes on.
• Cutscenes can be paused, skipped, and auto-scrolled.
• Seven characters and you choose the first characters to set out as.
• Each character has a role – caster, Rogue, warrior, wanderer, archer, farmer, and Fighter.
• Bright 3D game world.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• The monster encyclopedia fills in as you encounter monsters and other characters.
• End of expedition breakdown showing time spent, EXP earned, Blackstone statue trials cleared, and items collected.
• Main hub area where you can craft items, select missions, etc.
• Earn EXP and level to increase stats and get skill points for new abilities.
• You have full control over what you do unless you unlock, upgrade, and place in the designated slots.
• The storehouse box lets you change equipment.
• The farm is where you feed the animals in order to get products like milk and eggs for cooking.
• When crafting or farming all actions take time, you can spend runes or Sands of time to instantly finish them otherwise going back into the abyss progresses time.
• You must delve into the many floors of the Abyss.
• The fields is where you plant seeds to make ingredients.
• The kitchen is where you go to create food dishes and other cooking activities.
• The Atelier is where you turn minerals into materials for crafting.
• The workshop turns logs and other wood into lumber for crafting.
• The Forge is where you craft equipment, adding magistones adds bonuses and/or elements infinity.
• Booster parts are used to upgrade your equipment.
• Each place in the hub has its own level which affects the speed of crafting/cooking, what’s available, and how much you can do in one go.
• At the stones used for leaving the Abyss, you can instead swap to any character and carry on.
• Kill combos give you more exp rewards.
• Floor gates once activated act like spawn points when you first enter the abyss on a new run.
• When you level up you emit a powerful area of attack spell which deals a ton of damage.
• Blackstone statues open up a bonus trial for unique rewards.
• Upon death, if you have any potions then you Auto heal and revive albeit with less health.
• If you die and have no potions you go back to base and lose a kid of your loot/pickups.
• Desynthesis is breaking down armor for booster parts and everything else into runes.
• Missions are optional but finishing one nets a load of rewards.
• You can unlock new classes for each character type.
• Dishes can affect your stats and before a new run, you can have up to 3.
• Find animals who can heal you when on a run.
• You can see your exp bar.
• Has a strong risk-reward mechanic as you have to assess if you can risk your run for the possible chance of exiting or getting the chance to level up.
• Wave-based encounters in a small area.
• Mini map which shows all materials and resources.
• The map fills in as you play.
• Signal fires can be used to fast-travel when entering the abyss again, and act like a hard spawn point.
• You can bring up a map in the center of the screen, it’s transparent and can stay when running around.
• How equipment drops work is you get a drop and it’s a memory of it, you then craft it into life as it were.
• All equipment has rarity levels.
• Competing for a trial pops in the corner briefly and shows the rewards.
• The prize pickpocket is a mobile chest that drops loot and can be killed for more. Think loot goblins in Diablo.
• Memory Rifts can take you to a new area with stronger enemies but greater rewards.
• Environmental hazards can be used like exploding barrels.
• When changing character at the crystal in the game, you get a buff and this depends on who you are when changing.
• Big boss encounters with story tombs and a bonus reward room afterward.
• You can replay any previously beaten levels within the abyss.
• When quitting you get told when the last save was.
• Help section to re-read tutorials.

Silent Hope Review Cons:

• Not all interactions/cutscenes can be skipped.
• Slow starter.
• A lot to take initially.
• Very mashy combat, it’s not always easy to avoid damage.
• The early levels all look the same.
• Enemies hit hard and you don’t get a lot of health options so the start is quite rough.
• You don’t get any fanfare or notifications of completing/failing a Blackstone statue trial.
• EXP amd levels are tied to each individual character making it a real pain when you swap characters.
• When on camp the chatting gets old fast with many lines getting repeated over and over.
• Takes so long to get going.
• The completed trial pop is so small and quick that you can easily miss it.
• The general loop repeats its formula over and over.
• Aiming with ranged characters is not always great as it lacks any lock-on.
• Grabbing the same resources and materials over and over gets boring.
• It just feels uneventful after every floor, every fight.
• Never sure when it has been saved.
• Takes ages to get new classes.
• The new locations are fine but they just feel like redskins.

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Silent Hope:

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Developer: XSEED Games

Publisher: Marvelous Europe

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