A background field of grass in the distance may seem boring but for every square of grass, you get 2HP back when you complete a loop, or 3HP if you place it near rocks or mountains. These come as cards that you place on the map.Įverything has a purpose. As you make your way around the loop, fighting slimes will bring back memories of things like glades and cemeteries and mountains. You then head out on an expedition wherein a looped path is randomly drawn out on your screen with a simple path and the occasional slime. You start the game as a basic warrior but unlock additional classes over time, each with their own perks and attack style. It’s a ridiculously satisfying grind that left me 100% addicted. It’s the gameplay loop that truly got me, though. You eventually meet characters, unlock new abilities, and occasionally juggle with the fact that as you restore the world you’re also bringing the bad along with the good. It’s a pretty simple story that lends itself to literally letting your mind (and controller) fill in the plot holes with full-on plots of land. This memory comes in the form of a card, allowing the hero to place that memory somewhere, turning the blank road ahead into a grassy glade. The hero encounters a slime and upon defeating it gets a bit of memory back from the world before the literal blackout.
It’s a dark void where they can barely see more than a few feet away. In this game, you play as a nameless brave hero who’s found that everything is just gone.
Loop Hero is an endless RPG with old-school aesthetics developed by Russian studio Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital. But still, I was curious how these things interconnected, and I’m here right now to tell you I’m happy I did. Simple graphics flitting in quality between the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System, procedurally generated maps, card-based events, non-interactive battles - it was a combination of trends in gaming I’m not normally there for. Loop Hero is a game I never expected to get into.
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