Analysis of Death or Treat – A roguelite candy

Scary, the self-contained ghost

The story of Death or treatment is featured Frightening. Like every year, this little ghost goes to the town of HallowTown with his friend Marshmallow do business in ghost market, his rolling shop. Our spectral character has been selling Halloween candies for a long time, but this time there is not a single customer. The city is practically empty and a new drug, the historyconverted almost all the inhabitants of the Halloweenback into zombies or shut down the rest of the businesses.

The person responsible for this is Clark Fuckerberg

Fight capitalism with a broom

Dealing with such a malevolent megacorporation starts with climbing the ranks. The Halloweenverse is divided into four slotswhich we will visit successively: Darkchat, Riptok, Deviltube and Facebook!. To advance between one and the other, we will first have to defeat their corresponding final bosses. But reaching them will not be easy, because the path will be full of enemies. Some will be exclusive to each area and others will be repeated or have slight variations.

Scary will initially be armed with a broomstick. Our basic move set will consist of a normal attack, heavy attack, up hook, double jump and a dash. As we defeat monsters we will get sweets and materials. These will help us unlock new weapons, improve our life or powers. And it is that before undertaking each new attempt, you can equip yourself with one of the 3 skills available. These can be exploding ghosts, a boomerang blast, or the ability to become an all-ending tornado of death and destruction.

WE ARE OPEN!

But the most important thing at the beginning of Death or treatment are build. As we mentioned before, advancing through each level and defeating enemies will provide us with candies. But there will be special monsters that will drop materials when they die These materials will be necessary to reopen businesses in HallowTown and be able to reach more advanced areas. These buildings are Frank’s Forge, where we are going to buy new weapons; Necrosoft, the place where we will improve our magic with expensive upgrades and DetoxBucks, the cafeteria where we can improve our life and recovery. You can even unlock shortcuts

prices to die for

The economy of the Hallowverse is not kind at all. Each upgrade, weapon or reconstruction of buildings gives us it will cost a lot of candies and materials. To make matters worse, the amount of these resources we can carry with us is very limited. The only solution will be to redo the levels several times or to buy upgrades for the inventory in order to Joe bites them.

This vampire-like character will also be very important in the game, because at the end of each zone he will make us a deal which is synthesized in the title of the game: Death or Treat. If we choose death we will return to HallowTown and in return Joe will give us 500 candies. But if we choose Deal we will continue the adventure and Joe will give us extra space for the ingredients.

hilarious

If we talk about graphics, Death or Treat is one of those games that comes in through the eyes. This charm comes from the cute style character design. cartoon and the fact that all, like the sets and backgrounds, they are entirely hand painted and traditionally lively. The decor is not left out either, with levels well differentiated from each other and full of details or references that will make us smile more than once.

The title of Studios Saone is full of humor. THE critiques or parodies of politics, social media and capitalism they are constant. Something that brings a lot of personality to work and that I certainly loved.

Eventually

Studios Saone made a roguelite very funny, but also quite demanding. Especially in the first hours of play. The initial difficulty curve can get tricky, especially due to the number of enemies in the levels and the low probability of them dropping upgrade items. But the delicious control makes it attractive to retry each level and little by little we will get improvements that will help Scary get closer to recovering his business. Besides, his visual style and sense of humor encourage deeper exploration each area of ​​the Hallowverse.

Death or treatment It’s a great title that has nothing or almost nothing to envy to the other greats of the genre. If you’re a fan of this type of game and have the patience and perseverance it takes, here’s an indie that’s a real treat.