Each week we attempt to break a game in new and interesting ways. Die For Valhalla faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
Game: Die for Valhalla!
Webzone: Die_for_Valhalla
Devel: Monster Couch
Engine: Unity
Price: £10.99 / US$11.99 / CA$13.49
Wazzat: Die for Valhalla! is an action RPG where you hack, slash and crush your enemies! Possess and take full control of heroes, monsters and other things to help Vikings save their realm!
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent keys
Venn:
Does It Launch
- Seems legit.
Performance @ 1080
- Holds a solid 60.
Graphics
- It looks like Streets of Rage and Don’t Starve together had a babby.
Control
- Can’t unposses /w the Steamy Controlla.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- jes
Performance @ 1080
- Holds 60@UHD
Graphics
- No options for shit like vsync
Control
- Motherfucker has correct prompts for dual shock
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- I don’t think I’d ever had a game start in a 10’000×10’000 window.
Performance @ 1080
- Holds 60
Graphics
- Looks a lot like Don’t Starve but with Vikings.
Control
- Right analog click to unpossess characters is broken if you use a controller
- Broken for both the Mistress and the 8BitDo controller
- Works with the keyboard.
- No ability to remap keys
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- Again, Streets of Rage and Don’t Starve together had a babby.
- It’s a ground-and-pound brawler with the addad ability to posses shite… that I can’t use.
- This is a really really bad thing but not for the reason you might think.
- Thing is, I was more than happy to play /w swingy sword man for the hour of time I put into it.
- If you “neat” mechanic can be ignored it might not really be that neat.
- I quit ready the middling dialogue when the word millennial showed up.
- Skill upgrades after each level but I ended up picking them at random because on normal difficulty this thing shites health.
- Unlike Pedro I refuse to play a brawler /w a keyboard so I know I’m missing out on some of the fun.
- And if you at home are anything like Old Man Venn™ heed my word-organ.
- Meh.
- Jordan
- It’s not a bad little beat’em up
- The whole body swapping mechanic is neat and you despite having to level up your dude over again, you get some stuff that persists
- The levels get a bit samey, but they keep adding new monsters and hazards to keep things interesting
- I could take or leave the in between video segments. They’re trying to be funny and failing horribly.
- Homeboy really needs some online multiplayer though
- Pedro
- It’s like Crawl but more of just a beat’em up rather than what Crawl tried to do.
- The action is solid, if a bit let down by the sound effects being somewhat meh.
- I like the background music, it’s subtle but when you do notice it fits right in.
- I like the roguelite elements, if the person you’re possessing dies you will have to start from scratch with a base level one.
- But as you progress and kill enemies, your Valkyrie also levels up and one of those skills is to let you summon higher level dudes.
- Honestly, I wish I could play with the controller, that’d be nice.
- But it’s not a horrible game, at least not after you find a way to resize the window down to something sensible.
