Skelethrone The Chronicles Of Ericona Review (PlayStation 5)

Skelethrone The Chronicles Of Ericona Review, Assume the role of Derek Ericona, a lord destined for death by treachery, who avoided it in favor of a more grim fate. You’re in for a great adventure inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Bloodthirsty monsters, divine creatures, and epic boss battles. The game’s story is shaped by choices that will define your journey.

Skelethrone The Chronicles Of Ericona Review Pros:

• Decent pixel art graphics.
• 2.17GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• You can remap the controls.
• Screen settings – brightness, contrast, saturation, screenshake, and player/enemy outlines.
• 3 save slots.
• Two difficulty modifiers – exploring (you get no hints) and journey (hints will appear on the map).
• Two censorship options – original (all nudity and brutality scenes), and special (no brutality or nudity).
• Souls like action RPG gameplay.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• 2D with 3D backdrops and animated foreground.
• Find essence shards.
• Lamp posts you light act as a respawn point.
• When you die you have one life To retrieve all dropped essence.
• Essence comes out of enemies and is used to level up.
• Simple to use inventory system for equipment, and items.
• The stamina bar is used for blocking, jumping, attacking, and rolling.
• Dark Gothic atmosphere.
• Weird choice but dying leaves all previously killed enemies dead… Sometimes it seems as if I’ve had it both ways at random times.
• Big boss battles.
• The map fills out as you explore.
• Metroidvania elements throughout.
• You can grab onto walls to shimmy up them.
• Slide down and jump up ladders to make it faster.
• Bonfires are where you can level up, heal, respawn enemies, and fast-travel.
• Each piece of gear and weapon can require certain stats in order to wield or even use them.
• Stars you can level up are – strength, vitality, endurance, dexterity, and spirit.
• Gear will show clear green and red numbers for easy comparisons.
• Parry attacks at the last second to stun the enemy momentarily.
• Weapons can have special attacks with cool-down meters.
• Life bar health system and you use potions to heal.
• You can pause the game.
• Each enemy has unique attack patterns that you can learn.
• It’s possible to respawn enemies and farm essence to power level.
• Great soundtrack.
• Hack and slash-style combat with both ranged and melee weapons.
• Difficult.
• Drops from enemies and breakable pots are all random.
• You can roll through enemies.
• Essence shards can be used to add new upgrades to your character via the massive knowledge tree, here you do things like add more health, stamina or strength.
• A well designed game world with many shortcuts and secrets to find even in already explored areas.
• Damage numbers pop up as you attack.

Skelethrone The Chronicles Of Ericona Review Cons:

• The foreground art obscures your view a lot.
• Only basic tutorial pop-ups.
• Difficult.
• It is really hard to see enemies at times even with the outlines on as they blend into the background so much.
• Bonfires are so far apart.
• You can easily stumble into boss fights as there is no build-up or indication.
• Enemies are not always great at fighting or movement and I’ve had a fair few straight up look the other way. But hey free essence!
• Parrying is the hardest thing to do in the game.

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