Graphically and it must be said that Skul: The Hero Slayer is beautiful, with personality bursting out of all the demons you meet along the way. Taking these enemies down is an achievement in itself, but with actual achievements tied to defeating them without being hit, this will take some practice. The end of level bosses are pretty impressive as well, ranging from a possessed giant tree to two female soldiers with a dandy line in screen-filling attacks. The mid-level folk are usually pretty easy once you get to grips with their attack patterns, and it’s just as well, as when you go up through the levels, they start to appear in multiples. Learning to use a variety of skulls is very important, as with no way to choose which skull you start with, it can be very hard if you get a skull that you aren’t familiar with or dislike.Īfter making your way through the levels (which change every time, so no two runs have the same layout), you meet a mini boss, before then meeting an end of level boss.
Each skull comes with different special abilities that can be used to poison or set enemies on fire. Skul has a very handy dodge move that can be used to avoid enemy attacks with the proper timing, alongside a double jump. So if you spend 10 bone fragments to power up the werewolf skull to level 2, the next time you find it it will be at level 2 straight off the bat.Ĭombat is very good indeed, with different skulls able to be swapped between on the fly, even in the middle of the same combo to maximise your offensive capabilities. If you do power up a skull in this way, every time you receive it you will be at the same stage, which is a nice touch. And, without risking too many spoilers, a certain character you meet can increase the effectiveness of each skull, in return for a number of bone fragments. He can don a werewolf skull, which dramatically increases the speed of his attacks he can be an Ent, a mobile tree that hits slowly but hard he can be a ninja, a biker, a clown and many more.
What makes this game different is a simple mechanic, that of allowing Skul to have access to different attacks based on which skull he is currently wearing.
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Everyone except Skul has been captured, and armed only with Little Bone – literally the leg bone of one of his friends – Skul must set off on an epic journey to free the rest of the demons.
This is nothing new, but what makes a difference this time is that human adventurers have joined forces with the Imperial Army and the Hero of Carleon in order to wipe out the demons once and for all. This, as it turns out, is pretty fortunate as one day, the humans decide to attack the Demon King’s castle. Skul, the character we play as, is a little skeleton, too little to be a guard or anything else. First of all, some story for your narrative satisfaction.
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