Demon Purge, pixels and demons.

The title is developed by Inti Creates, creator of iconic sagas such as Mega Man, Gunvolt or Blaster Master.

Inti Creations, the studio behind such renowned sagas as Mega Man, Blaster Master or Gunvolt offers us this pixelated adventure full of demons that transports us to another era. It is Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge that has arrived these days, on the market and that we have had the opportunity to analyze in ComunidadXbox.

The golden age of pixels and platforms.

This time Inti creates try to look pass and bring us an adventure that awakens in us feelings of youth. And it is that Grim Guardians: Demon Purge is a classic metroidvania of those that we play so much in the 90s and 2000s who flooded the houses with the consoles domestic and they made delights in the halls recreational.

History is the least of things.

In Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge we will play the Kamizono sisters, Maya there shinobu. Both are demon hunters who live among us without arousing suspicion. One day on the way to Institute

the two sisters see how the two planes of existence, the demonic and the human, merge and their institute ends up becoming a hell and demonic castle. Behind all this hides Kurona, a demon more than known to the sisters and who will have to be stopped.

Metroidvania, brawler and beat em

Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge It’s a classic metroidvaniahas vast levels to explore, many doors secret or closed that we will find throughout the game. It has a nonlinear system of phases and an infinite number of forked roads which will please lovers of the genre. With a clear and defined style Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge However, it acquires shades of other big names in the genre such as brawlers or beat’em ups. The screen will fill with Lots of enemies It depends on the area we are in and melee combat is the most effective in my opinion, although we can also face them from afar.

disparate sisters

And it is that the protagonists of Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge I am very many different between them. To start Maya has attacks body A body with different types of weapons as we progress through the story and defeat the final bosses. Additionally, Maya has less health, but her melee attacks are blunt. Finally, Maya is much smaller than Shinobu and when we manipulate her we will be able to enter places where her sister cannot, she can also crouch, which Shinobu cannot do. However, she has other gifts, one of them being her ability to ranged attack. Something that will be very useful against certain enemies or bosses, despite the fact that these attacks are less dissuasive.

Various attacks and weapons.

To attack Shinobu will use some kind of revolver oh armed one-handed capable of firing like a machine gun. We have a 100 shot magazine that, once exhausted, will force us to stand still for 3 seconds to reload. Moving or jumping will cancel that action and we’ll be in trouble.
In addition, both sisters have special attacks, some more oriented wing defend and others to attack. Finally, concerning the gameplay, let’s add that we can change sister in the phase, so if an area is very difficult we can change quickly to try to do it in another way.

die and rise again

Both sisters are related and this section is quite original, or little used in the genre. And it is that, if one of them dies, we can continue the phase with the other of the last checkpoint

. However, we will have to go to the place where our sister died to revive her. If we die trying to find her and revive her, both sisters will be dead and we will lose one of our precious lives. a section particular it’s him movement characters and their actions. We are facing a very careful and very good game in this section, the 60 fps those who move help a lot to have a complete and pleasant experience.

conclusion

Grim Guardians: Demonic Purge is a game that will delight lovers of metroidvania. with his style pixel art and his light but easily digestible argumentation will not lead us into heavy plots, going directly to the stock. If we think of a title from the past like Golden axe, Metroid Prime, Castlevania and we play them right away we will be disappointed by their coarseness, and hard gameplay. But in the retina we have them like the greats of the genre at the time, and Sinister Guardians: Demon Purge brings us those feelings lost, but so expensive and Never forget.