My personal favourite was one that increased the effectiveness of healing pickups by 50%, but another top contender was one that, upon death, would bring you back to life with 35% health once per run. Trinkets are a slightly different beast there are only eight of them in the game but they stay with you and can be freely swapped between runs (same for weapons and armour, but there’s a caveat there), but they offer significant gameplay advantages. It’s a fair compromise there’s still a decent variety of effects but the developers didn’t have to spend as much time creating armour assets, as we can actually see the armour on our skeleton once it’s been equipped.
For example, you might find two lots of leather armor and find one has a higher armour value, whereas the other increases a particular type of damage output. While there are not a ton of different armour types, the same type of armour can have a different effect. Speaking of armour, there are four slots in addition to your weapon slots that allow for a helmet, body, boots, and trinket. Due to this mechanic, helmets actually have a damage value rather than a defensive benefit, which makes finding new helmets more exciting to pick up. Although retrievable projectiles certainly aren’t new in these types of games, the idea of pulling off your head and launching it at your foes is hilariously goofy, and definitely on theme. While there are ways to temporarily reduce the cast time (we’ll come to perks later), I do think the flow of combat as a whole would be improved if it was lower by default. I wouldn’t recommend doing this, however, as it takes far too long to recall and you cannot move or attack while recalling it. Each time you hurl your skull at an enemy, you need to pick it up before using it again, or it can be recalled after a lengthy cast time. He’s also got a secret weapon in the form of his head a projectile that can be thrown at enemies to deal a good chunk of damage. Each charge replenishes after a few seconds, allowing for clutch dodges and traversal through environmental hazards.
He’s also equipped with a short-ranged dash that holds three charges. While my personal favourite weapon was the daggers, all weapons are well-balanced and unique, and they’re all a blast to use.Ĭonventional weapons aren’t the only tools our bony friend has in his arsenal. Perform a secondary attack with your daggers and you’ll release a fan of blades to strike foes around you, whereas the hammer’s secondary is medium-ranged frontal cone attack. Daggers, for example, don’t hit particularly hard but are wickedly fast, allowing for a rapid flurry of attacks in the same time it would take to make one blow with the huge, high-damage hammer. Each weapon type has its own strengths and weaknesses that are dictated by their speed as well as primary and secondary attacks. We don’t know anything about our skeletal friend’s former life, but thankfully he’s more than capable of wielding a sword, daggers, hammer, and a number of other weapons to get the job done. After raising us from the grave, the wizard sends us out into the world to gather bloodstones – items that allow him to scout out our targets – and ultimately reveal the one who was responsible for our death. Your task is simple: gain power so you can hunt down the ones responsible for your death and exact revenge.
In Skeletal Avenger, you play as – yep – a skeleton raised from the dead by a mysterious wizard. It’s also an incredibly fun title, and its gameplay is so strong that it almost manages to carry the other, weaker elements pretty much by itself. While its gameplay elements share many similarities with other games in the genre – Hades, specifically – the way it handles progression is actually quite unique, almost to the point where I would not necessarily call it a rogue-like, but rather a blend between a rogue-like and a straight up RPG. At first glance, Skeletal Avenger looks extremely similar to other rogue-likes.
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