![]() I thought fine, I don’t need all the answers upfront. Who are they? Why are they here? How did Lute die and get attached to her sister? You’ll have to keep going in the dark for a while to get the answers. But at least to start with you’ll get nothing about Briar and Lute themselves. Only dual warrior Chimera can stand against it. ![]() There’s a tear in the sky and Chaos streaming out that’s turning the whole of Ilden city’s population into ravenous wraiths who devour any survivors. Soulstice really throws you into the thick of the story, where explanations are a luxury drip-fed to you over the course of a fifteen to twenty-hour playthrough. Would you look at that? A tear in reality has happened. Chimera are a breed of ancient and sacred warriors who can face the Chaos that pours out should a tear in reality happen. Briar is an Ashen Knight, your brash melee character, but also, thanks to the Shade (or ghost) of her dead sister bonded to her, a Chimera. You play as Briar, but also as her sister Lute, both voiced by Stefanie Joosten, who played Quiet in Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain. We need fast-paced, visceral, combo-heavy slashers too. But it was refreshing to see not every third-person action title is going in that direction. The ‘Soul’ in Soulstice led me and possibly others to think this would be a high difficulty, slow combat, on a knife edge of being killed, souls-like experience. Yep, there’s a lot of Devil May Cry in here. A single-player third-person combat scenario, a world-threatening force of demons, combat encounters that are concerned more with scoring combos you perform and the flow you achieve, challenge rooms, and even red orbs to collect to purchase and level skills. ![]() But is it a wonderful homage or a poor imitation? The Finger Guns Review:ĭark and stylish new melee brawler Soulstice wears its influences firmly on lead character Briar’s armoured sleeve – leave the guns at the door and this is Devil May Cry from an alternate timeline. High-octane brawler Soulstice takes a lot of notes from Devil May Cry.
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