![]() It’s easy to see Devil Daggers being influenced by shmups in parts of its design-the single weapon with a wide and narrow shot, the instant fail state upon brushing pretty much anything, the all-consuming obsession with making a number go as high as possible and then showing it off to your mates-but if you, like me, buy all your video games from the wormhole in your closet that leads to an early-2000s EB Games, then what you’re going to be primarily impressed with is the first-person shooter part of its design. Maybe that’s what happened with Devil Daggers a game so tight and elegant and pure in its design that I can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief for the future of old-school shooters. There are hints of true brilliance lying there, forgotten in favour of vague happy memories of The Slipgate Complex, but maybe, just maybe, there’s somebody out there willing to reach into the muck and pull out a diamond. They were melting pots of ideas that turned the basic formula over and over so many times it was sometimes barely recognisable. ![]() Why can’t somebody refine that experience? What if people stopped trying to blindly remake the old id Software shooters and instead started to look intelligently at their legacies, picking and choosing specific elements to expand upon? Those games were about so much more than running around E1M1 blasting demons in the face they were about deathmatch, obscure mods, ugly maps, engine exploits and forbidden techniques. It's utterly overwhelming and tremendously stressful, like playing tag with a tsunami, and chances are you know how you're going to end up: staring at the red-tinted death screen as an endless procession of monsters wade through the corpses of their brethren, arms aching, nerves frayed, wondering lightheadedly if the last five minutes of panicked screaming were audible or just confined to the inside of your skull.Īnd yet Doom, along with its contemporaries, is an imperfect platform for this kind of hectic, arena-based survival it was designed for chains of smaller skirmishes distributed throughout tight, corridor-filled levels, not heroic last stands in otherworldly colosseums, and it shows. You can only retreat, massacring opportunistically, and hope that somewhere deep in those hardened neural pathways is the necessary skill to somehow unconsciously keep track of every possible hazard coming towards you. What matters here, more than anything else, is the horde the swarm of targets that outnumbers you a hundredfold, lashing out constantly, complex patterns momentarily surfacing from its depths before disappearing back into the roaring chaos. No level to explore, no pacing or progression just a cavernous room, enough monsters to bring the engine to its knees, and enough ammunition to reduce every single one to economy-brand dog food. Like many of the modding community's niche products, they're a result of taking one facet of the old-school shooter formula and distilling it into something so pure and singular that it works as a standalone experience. Have you ever played a Doom slaughter map? They're not for the easily intimidated, let's put it that way. * Supports hundreds of flocking enemies that all avoid each other. * 3d particle physics system with procedural decal effects. ![]() * 1990s software-style rendering with unfiltered textures and polygon jitter. * Advanced movement techniques allow for speed boosts and double jumps.- ENGINE FEATURES: - * Custom built engine, hand crafted art and sound. * Fluid movment allows for circle strafing, bunny hopping and dagger jumps. * Survive long enough to earn powerful magical homing daggers. * Versatile magic daggers, can be used as a shot attack or rapid fire. * Learn from the world's best or watch friends with the leaderboard replay system. ![]() * Harvest demonic crystals to increase the power of your magic daggers. Compete for precious seconds with Steam Friends or on globalleaderboards.Your spirit and skill will be tested.- GAMEPLAY FEATURES: - * Face 13 horrifying enemies. Armedwith versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive aslong as you can. Inspired by 1990s FPS and arcade games, Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooterthat places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons.
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