The game's creator, Scott Cawthon, will forever be known as the FNAF guy. And thats for a good reason, the FNAF games were fine tuned horror games that shook up the genre (for good or worse). But even though I am a big fan of that series, there is no denying that The Desolate Hope is most likely Scotts best work artistically if you were to ask me.
I swear Scott was destined to make robots because the designs in this game are LEGENDARY, from the main cast to the viruses you fight every character is recognizable and has an interesting look to them. I love the worlds as well, they all have a great sense of atmosphere on how each deralict decided to go with their mission.
Their are plenty of things to do in the actual gameplay, during the day you are doing these little platforming sessions upgrading little coffee and his squad, then you are going out and engaging with what is possibly one of my favorite RPGs ive ever played. Then at night you have the weirdest level up system ive seen. This gameplay loop keept me interested and engaged the whole way through.
The Story itself is short and sweet with interesting twists and turns. Not something where its trying to shove story into every nook and cranny, its there for those interested but you can gloss over it. This world is filled with funny yet sad robots that you grow closer and closer as you try to stop the virus takeover.
Now the meat and potatoes, that fucking combat. GOOD LORD their is so much going on which at first seems really convoluted, but if you tinker around with the practice mode and read what all the moves do, youll soon become cracked at it. I love this combat, it keeps your attention with each and every battle, and accompanied by the banging OST it just feels so good destroying those viruses!! Its just so video gamey, I wanted so much more!!! I hope some one replicates this style of combat or scott comes back to make another game like this cause this combat is goated.
Overall TDH is a wonderful charming weird as fuck JRPG that has one of the greatest combat systems ive ever played. It really is a shame that Scott omega focused on FNAF and didnt try making a third Desolate game. also THE GAME IS FREE, so there is no reason to hold back, just give it a go!!!!
EDIT: Thought about it for a bit but im bringing down the rating to 4 stars cause that ending really was kinda meh and I really wanted it to be something else. Still really love the game but ending soured what was truly a kino "junk food" video game
I swear Scott was destined to make robots because the designs in this game are LEGENDARY, from the main cast to the viruses you fight every character is recognizable and has an interesting look to them. I love the worlds as well, they all have a great sense of atmosphere on how each deralict decided to go with their mission.
Their are plenty of things to do in the actual gameplay, during the day you are doing these little platforming sessions upgrading little coffee and his squad, then you are going out and engaging with what is possibly one of my favorite RPGs ive ever played. Then at night you have the weirdest level up system ive seen. This gameplay loop keept me interested and engaged the whole way through.
The Story itself is short and sweet with interesting twists and turns. Not something where its trying to shove story into every nook and cranny, its there for those interested but you can gloss over it. This world is filled with funny yet sad robots that you grow closer and closer as you try to stop the virus takeover.
Now the meat and potatoes, that fucking combat. GOOD LORD their is so much going on which at first seems really convoluted, but if you tinker around with the practice mode and read what all the moves do, youll soon become cracked at it. I love this combat, it keeps your attention with each and every battle, and accompanied by the banging OST it just feels so good destroying those viruses!! Its just so video gamey, I wanted so much more!!! I hope some one replicates this style of combat or scott comes back to make another game like this cause this combat is goated.
Overall TDH is a wonderful charming weird as fuck JRPG that has one of the greatest combat systems ive ever played. It really is a shame that Scott omega focused on FNAF and didnt try making a third Desolate game. also THE GAME IS FREE, so there is no reason to hold back, just give it a go!!!!
EDIT: Thought about it for a bit but im bringing down the rating to 4 stars cause that ending really was kinda meh and I really wanted it to be something else. Still really love the game but ending soured what was truly a kino "junk food" video game