GAMES
[ Words Alan Wen ]
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FIRST PLAY NO REST FOR THE WICKED
PS5, XSX, PC
Think Diablo but with Dark Souls’ brutal precision-based combat, and that’s the simplest way to describe No Rest for the Wicked. This is the new game from Moon Studios, the indie firm behind the Ori series… which is moving on from enchanted forests and cute creatures for amore mature breed of dark fantasy.
But agloomier, grittier tale of dead kings, warring political factions and pestilence doesn’t mean achange to more realistic graphics: there’s still aunique painterly look to both the characters and the hand-made environments here. Mind you, while everything has the feel of an artist’s hand, there’s also Diablo’s randomisation of loot; and without aclass system, what you decide to pick up and equip is what determines your play style.