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Title: Slain: Back from Hell
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Release Date: 24 Mar, 2016
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20 September
Due to all the support from the PC community we managed to rescue Slain, turn it into what you now know to be Slain: Back from Hell, port it and ship it on PS4 today (in the US, EU tomorrow).
Obviously this is a PC community but we just wanted to say another massive thanks to everyone, customers old and new, for the feedback and support and for sticking through the more 'difficult' parts of post launch and helping us get to here, we could not have done it without all the incredible help from you guys. Word to the Great Horned Metal God
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Vita and XB1 versions are on the way (and sorry if a console post on here upsets anyone! :) )
3 September
“The landscapes are beautifully drawn, as are the monstrous inhabitants o but it’s the animation of Slain that is truly amazing”
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“The best Castlevania game in years...Slain is a fun retro platformer with a slick combat system, great visuals, and a killer soundtrack.”
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“Slain: Back from Hell is an addictive platform game forged in heavy metal culture.”
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About This Game
Slain: Back from Hell
You control the fate of Bathoryn, a doomed hero in a Gothic world, who seeks to liberate six cursed realms from six deadly overlords.
He must battle his way through this blighted land, packed with gruesome pixel art foes before ascending (or sometimes descending) into a stronghold, all the while defeating fiendish traps and vile monsters alike.
At the heart of every domain Bathoryn will confront a mighty foe - defeat it and his quest continues to its ultimate destiny. Fail, and you’ll die gruesomely – mauled by werewolves, disintegrated by floating monstrosities, squashed by great weights or torn apart by hidden blades. And you will fail…
There are 3 key areas to be mastered in order to vanquish Slain: Back from Hell.
- Learn to wield 3 deadly elemental weapons, each one exploiting weaknesses in different enemy types. Each has a different combo, timing and use. Mastering quick switching between weapons is the path to victory!
- Glean the placement and timings of enemies and booby traps.
- Generate, conserve and unleash your Mana wisely.
Accompanied by the heavy metal visuals is an even heavier metal soundtrack recorded by Curt Victor Bryant (formally of Celtic Frost).
Challenging ‘elemental’- based melee and magical combat
6 hours of bone-crushing, metal-fueled mayhem & gore
Choose from 3 unique weapons in your fight against the demon hordes.
Full soundtrack recorded by Curt Victor Bryant formally of Celtic Frost. \m/
Cunningly concealed secrets (shhh).
Boss fights, mini-boss fights, sub-mini- boss fights & macro-sub- mini-boss fights.
No laborious levelling, no tedious grinding, no wimpy crafting!
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SteamOS + Linux
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OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
Processor: 1.5 Ghz or faster
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space
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Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ Compatible Card
Storage: 500 MB available space
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(Disclaimer: I have not played the initial version, only the current &Back from Hell& version, and I was generously gifted a key by someone on NeoGAF -- thanks again mate.)dr version (Read below for more details)The good:+ Amazing visuals+ Solid soundtrack+ Excellent boss designs+ Responsive controlsThe okay/decent:+ Combat + Platforming and traps + Goofy metal lyrics-styled dialogueThe mediocre:- Level design- Could use more enemy varietyI won't lie, this is a game that is primarily driven by its amazing artistic direction. The visuals are consistently impressive, not just the art and environments, or the cool parallax effects, or the excellent animations (esp. the headbanging one when you defeat a boss!), but all the intricate details, from the guttering torches, flying insects buzzing around rotting carcasses, the rain or snow, the dripping blood or ooze, etc. Every level is just... &wow&, every time. It's essentially a metal album cover come to life, and I mean the really cool and badass album covers, like those made by Necrolord, Kris Verwimp, SV Bell, Eliran Kantor, Andreas Marshall, Dan Seagrave, Chris Moyen/Thorncross, etc., not the ?????? ones like Riot's Fire Down Under.Metal soundtracks for games are nothing new, but to my knowledge, very few, if any, have one quite like it. It's basically instrumental doom/gothic metal, instead of the more common traditional and/or blazing shredding wailing guitar type of metal you're more likely to find. It could have benefited from a few more tracks, but it's otherwise excellent and the music fits the mood of the game admirably well. Good job by the ex-Celtic Frost guy.Story and dialogue? Well, there is some, but it's not very important in a game like this, so who cares really. All the writing is very cheesy, but it pretty much reads like metal lyrics. If that's your thing, you'll find yourself smiling at the cheesy, pompous lines. If not, you'll probably roll your eyes, but hopefully you're not that uptight.Now, the gameplay. To be frank, it's mostly okay, not great. Level design is very simple for the most part,
not a whole lot of verticality, very rare secrets, and simple moving forward hacking mobs, with the occasional hit-the-switch-and-come-back. Most of the time, it's just a matter of defeating the combat encounters and avoiding the traps and survive until the next checkpoint. The traps are generally easy to avoid and serve mostly to mix up the pace, but the combat encounters can be really quite difficult. Bathoryn, the protagonist, cannot take a whole lot of hits and dies really fast (or I just suck). Fortunately respawning is instant and loading times are super-fast, and checkpoints are generous enough to avoid too much frustration, so it's not THAT bad. Still, prepare to die be slain often.Combat is hack-and-slash with some ranged magic (as long as you have mana left), with some nice focus on parrying and countering, charged attacks (hard to time correctly but rewarding to pull off), flinging projectiles back at the enemy, and switching between the steel sword, the flame blade, and the ice axe. Overall it's not that deep but it's serviceable enough, the controls are fairly responsive. There could be a bit more enemy variety though, I mean I'm fine with smashing skeletons, but that's a lot of skellies... something to think about in a sequel, maybe. That said, the boss fights is when the combat shines, forcing you to use all of your arsenal and skill. I really found the bosses to be well designed and the highlights of the game (Mother Beholder can get ????ed though!).I am terrible at this kind of old-school brutal game and took a good 9 hours of dying repeatedly before gitting gud (I swear at least one full hour is against Mother Beholder, gahhh) and pulling through. A skilled player would probably take far less before reaching the ending.In short, I would recommend this game, mostly for its artistic appeal. It's a metal album cover (or a bunch of them) come to life which is a really ????ing cool thing, unless you don't like metal, in which case, I don't like you, so please go away. The gameplay underneath is nothing mind-blowing, but just decent enough to make it worth playing. \m/ Hail the Great Horned Metal God \m/
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Great game. Its hard so if you get frustrated over hardgames steer clear. Other wise its the ????.
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HEADBANGING TO GLOOOORYYYYYY !!!
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PROSAmazing pixel art graphicsDifficult but not to the point where it's unfairFluent animationsElements of puzzles and platformingUnique bossesAmazing soundtracksCONSThe game is pretty short, it took me 3 hours to beat itNo character/weapon customization, I think a shop where you can buy weapon and armor upgrades would fit well with this gameHit detection can be choppy sometimesOverall, I'd say it's a fun but challenging game.
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Once upon a time, I saw the gorgeous art behind Slain! and figured I would necessarily love the game as it would be released, but a number of smaller elements in the original game made it feel off.It is hard to pinpoint one exact thing, I feel overall it fell down to a lot of details, and the controls which weren't as tight as they should have been.I dismissed the title as something perhaps I shouldn't have bought on aesthetics alone, and that was it...Until this re-release. At first I felt like this was probably a means to do some damage control on the mixed reviews, and didn't reinstall the game. But some footage of the new game made me realize the movement looked a lot more fluid, so one lonely saturday evening, I chose to plug in my controller and play again. This game has much tighter controls now, and when I die, I feel like it is always my fault, which is what I really look at when playing this type of platformer. I've chosen not to read the extensive list of improvements so I wouldn't be biased or actively looking for how each of the fixes operated. Instead, I've embraced the new Slain, and I have to concur that it IS a new game, and one well worth playing.Good job to the developer for all of this polish, and definitely good job to the publisher for taking this difficult decision!
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Amazing animation style, along with the art. If you enjoy hack and slash combat systems, then buy this game. Ignore the mixed review on the overall, it was getting hate because of the controls and how you couldn't edit them, but that's all fixed now so don't worry.
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Seriously don't get the hate this game gets. I bought right after Back From Hell came out, and loved it. Everything about it, art style, music and extremely challenging gameplay. There's just something about this game that brings back memories of good old slashers/platformers from both 8-bit and 16-bit era's.Sure, combat system is not as deep, as, per say, Salt And Sanctuary, but no one said it's going to be soulslike game. But yeah, strongly advise you to play it on your gamepad. Playing on keyboard is technically possible, and I did that for like first three hours, but it's far more enjoyable if you just plug your controller in and start button-smashing.
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Great game. Animations are detailed. Awesome soundtrack. Very difficult but so satisfying when you reach the next check point. Then take a break and continue on.
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I never got to play the original Slain, but my experience with Slain: back from hell has been fantastic, OST is metal as ???? and the art is absolutely gorgeous in a grim kinda way, very difficult game but lots of fun for those who have the patience to die a ton of times to finally make some progress. They only thing i didnt like was the ending, not because it was bad or anything, but its just esoteric and i didnt understand it at all.
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Like Volgarr the Viking only more metal.
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And you thought Dark Souls was hard.
Really enjoyed this, The metals be strong in this one. Challenging and its quite a trail and error type of game.
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I didn't play the original Slain, but from what I've seen, Back From Hell is an improvment.Here's my video on Slain: Back From HellOverall, if you're a fan of Castlevania style Action Platformers, you'll enjoy this game.My biggest complaint is that the game is fairly short.
\m/EPIC-BRUTAL-METAL-BLOODY & GORE GAME! Excellent game.Good gameplay, very fluid.Great Pixel Graphics art design, and of course good metal music.Nice combination of platforming, puzzles (very small puzzles) and Retro.Combat could be better but is not bad.Very brutal-retro-difficult game, need to learn monsters and bosses actions.Great boss fights, some are very easy and some are very brutal.I really have nothing negative to say about this game, when it first was released it was broken, but I am glad the developers fixed their game, and they fixed it good.ALL HAIL THE GREAT HORNED METAL GOD !!!
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