@mezz You want the best thing about this ? Some of the guys in the team had a time at Sloclap, working on #Sifu & #Absolver ^^

Typically, the CEO's & the Animator's experiences at Sloclap were then leveraged to push forward #EnGarde from its v1 (they reworked the whole game when the dev team got back together) to its insane current quality !

Add-in the experience of some of the Team that passed some time of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and you've got this cool impactful and rich evolution !

Apr 23, 2023 - Day 113 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 125

Game: Absolver

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 30, 2017
Library Date: Apr 7, 2019
Unplayed: 1477d (4y16d)
Playtime: 41m

Absolver is an online multiplayer combat game (apparently).

Other than the initial server login, nothing in the first 20 minutes of gameplay gave me any clue that there was an online component; this lack of information was something that was reflected through the gameplay.

You're a "prospect" wearing a magical mask, on the road to becoming an "Absolver"; there's a lack of clarity around what you're trying to do, and how to achieve it.

The initial 10 minutes of the game largely walk you through the combat process, but somehow the combat feels disconnected and sluggish.

The most annoying part of the process is that there are seemingly four different combat stances, but it requires a frustrating combination of two buttons to be pressed in a particular order, to switch stance, and then it kind of just... switches back?

I even gave it another 20 minutes playtime in case I was missing something, but combat was just as frustrating the second time around.

There might be something here that rewards persistence, but if it's there, it didn't hook me.

Absolver did not absolve itself; it's just:

2: Meh

#Absolver #ThirdPerson #Melee #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay