Also, look how many enemies there are, and I'm only 24 minutes in! | Image credit: Poncle / Eurogamer
That was caused by one of the new evolutions. Poncle clearly doesn't want to splurge all its treats in one go, and Tides of the Foscari is better for it. You can also feel the evolution of thought in how the characters are given to you, which, to keep it brief, is 'slowly'. Cool, huh?! Look, I realise none of this sounds exciting on the page, but in play, it feels exciting and different. Then there's the guy with the big sword (steady!) who has a fifth-hit finisher built into his main attack, which, to really make the most of, you need to keep count of. The mage lady you'll play as first gains three new spells, which, together, combine to evolve into something spectacular - a screen-filling vortex of magical destruction. The characters, for instance: they have new attacks you won't have seen before, and they also automatically (!) unlock other new powers you won't have seen before, as they level up. And what I particularly like about it is how you can feel the evolution of poncle's thought behind it. Like Legacy of the Moonspell before it, Tides of the Foscari adds a bunch of new characters, a bunch of new weapons and evolutions, plenty of new music you'll be listening to a lot, and a big new map. I'd happily watch a Vampire Survivors anime, poncle. It's reminscent of the Castlevania Netflix anime, which I really liked. I love the anime style poncle is going for in these trailers. And the latest of these, Tides of the Foscari, has rejuvenated Vampire Survivors for me. A way to introduce you to characters and powers and maps, that you don't know, all over again. What began as a quick game becomes a slog.Īnd after a while, though the compulsion is still strong, you find the fun has started to leak out.īut developer poncle has found a solution and it's delightfully simple: mini-expansions.
And it begins to irk you how long attempts actually take, with all the stopping - much closer to 45 minutes than the 30-minute time-limit levels apparently have. With repeated play comes the knowledge you'll need to beat it, but also a sense of needing to beat it, and with that comes frustration when you don't - when you don't do as well as the turn before, or build as optimally as you could. Everything is undiscovered and it's the discovery that's a delight. You can only experience Vampire Survivors for the first time, once, and get that giddy feeling of not knowing what's coming, and oh my gosh aren't there a lot of enemies, and what does this do, and how do I evolve that.
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