darkest dungeon characters look like monsters

From the music, to the backgrouds, to the ominous and hammy declarations by the Narrator (who also doubles as the 'ghost' of your enigmatic Ancestor), while the gameplay is essentially a old-school Final Fantasy turn-based game with some additional wrinkles thrown in (the sanity meter and positioning), it's ultimately the style and the sheer neatness of the theme that drew me in.Īgain, we're reviewing monsters, so whenever posssible I'll try to avoid using too much gameplay terms.Ĭultist Brawler: What does 'global' mean? Well, at any given in-game week, you get a couple of parts of the four primary areas open at one time - the weald, the ruins, the cove and the warrens (plus two more with DLC's installed), and the enemies you face (and thus, the resistances and weaknesses they have) differ from place to place.

It's amazingly done in conveying the theme and tone of its world is what I'm saying, I guess. It's a pretty awesome and well-done game that, while perhaps trying a bit too hard to focus on the hardness and the grindiness of the gameplay (you can and will permanently lose the characters you built up sometimes if you run into a string of bad luck) but what it excels is really building up a glorious little gothic horror world inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, but not at all actually adapting any of the IP's involved.

Darkest Dungeon was a particularly fun game that combines two of my guilty pleasures into one - homebrew D&D and Lovecraftian horror.

Darkest dungeon characters look like monsters