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Throughout the game, you will acquire various tools that will aid in traversal, including a grappling hook, and the ability to knock down fragile walls. Later, I found another whip that shared the same move set, but instead could function as a retractable shield. For example, I favoured a chain whip that could be imbued with flame elemental damage at will.

There is a decent enough selection of weapons, each of which has a unique attack, and variations of each perform different functions. You will be managing a stamina meter, and using a combination of light, heavy, charged heavy and unique attacks, giving the player many options. Graphics take a hit, of course, and while Steelrising has a consistent sense of artistic direction (the aforementioned neoclassicism is everpresent), textures are less so, and the game can look decidedly last-gen at times. This is Steelrising at its best, as the mystery of the narrative and its setting remains vague, and you engage in the game’s solid mechanics.Ĭombat is fast and fluid, especially when played on the Performance mode setting. Once you leave the Queen, though, you are on your own for the next several hours, left to wander the streets of Paris, learn the ins and outs of combat, or die trying. You are given the choice of several classes, which determines your starting stats and equipment, and you are able to customise Aegis physically, although it’s nothing to write home about. In the tried and true manner of modern Souls-likes, you are cast adrift in this world with little preamble. One night, King Louis unleashes his army of automats on the city without warning, and the Queen dispatches Aegis to Paris, to find Vaucanson and a way to end this nightmare. Aegis was designed as a gift for Queen Marie Antoinette to serve as a dancer in public, but in reality as her bodyguard and agent. You play as Aegis, a masterpiece automat crafted by Vaucanson, an engineer in service to The Clockwork King, or The Clockwork Tyrant, as King Louis XVI is now known.

While this parallel reality features many of our same real world, oftentimes larger-than-life, characters of the French Revolution, it differs in one crucial way: technology has diverged, with clockwork artificers capable of creating incredible automats, robot-like constructs with a gorgeous (and sometimes terrifying) neoclassical aesthetic. Set in Paris, 1789, Steelrising opens with a brief cinematic that immediately thrusts the player into its grim setting.

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It features solid combat, and is incredibly faithful to its semi-historical setting, but is let down by some rough edges, and its inability to break free of FromSoftware’s legacy. Steelrising is a Souls-like set during the turbulent first days of an alternate French Revolution, one in which King Louis XVI seeks to avert the course of history and crush the fledgling movement with an army of clockwork automatons.

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