The tone is very much that of a Victorian, or gothic, horror novel and is very reminiscent of the work of H.P. This is helped by some fantastic narration from Wayne June. I won’t spoil anything that happens later in the story, which is slowly revealed as you fight bosses and explore the titular dungeon, but rest assured his ghoulish tales of greed, torture, necromancy, and murder continue to delight and disgust throughout. He tasks you, his descendant, with ridding the mansion and your family of the curse he brought upon it. The premise is that you have inherited a cursed estate from your ancestor, his suicide note explaining that his ambition drove him to uncover some unnamed horrors beneath the estate. I found the plot of Darkest Dungeon to be one of the most interesting aspects of the game. Join me below as I try and explain this rather confusing opinion in more depth. Add to this some stability issues with this port of the PC original and you might be able to see why I come away from this experience as frustrated as I am satisfied. At its worst, the game is a relentless beating with RNG mechanics so random that a healthy party can be wiped out with a couple of turn’s bad luck. At its best, the game is a deeply strategic RPG, with nuanced character classes, a highly original tone and style, and an intriguing hook in the way it uses stress and illness to highlight the vulnerability of its characters. On the other, if the game was a physical disc it would be lying in tiny pieces on the curb outside after a brutal and vicious stomping. The desire to go back and have one more round is with me even now. On the one hand, Red Hook’s RPG is one of the most compelling games I have ever played. Was his descent into madness worth the trip?Īfter my time with Darkest Dungeon, I sit here conflicted. Our reviewer has spent several blood-soaked weeks mapping out the halls of his ancestor’s lineage, enduring the stress, and fighting off the eldritch horrors of the titular dungeon to bring you the Pure PlayStation review. After a slight delay from its originally planned release, the game is now available for PS4 and Vita. Red Hook Studios’ procedurally generated, turn-based, dungeon crawler Darkest Dungeon, released for PC at the start of 2016.
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