First impressions of Souldiers, from Spanish studio Retro Forge

souldiersbenefits from a cute 16 bit retro graphic style. Developed with Unity, this style suits you perfectly, 2D sprites are very nice and animations are smooth. Scenes have multiple layers with perfectly adjusted parallax effect and the environments give a very good feeling.

Environments are packed with detailwith boxes to smash, weeds to cut, and even spider eggs to destroy, for our own good.

The soundtrack is completely in line with the style of the titlewith that nice retro touch of the era, immerses you perfectly in the game. It’s one of those soundtracks that know how to get into your head. As for the sounds, they are pretty well done.swinging the sword or the sound of our footsteps are very very good, bordering on addictive and ASMR in my opinion.

The metroidvania part mixed with Dark Souls

Just start you can choose between three character classes, the scout, classic sword and shield, the archer, ideal for ranged attacks, and the conjurer, who will obviously use magic to defend himself.

We have the choice between different difficulty levelsexplorer, soldier and warrior, we can change it at any time but achievements will be disabled in game.

In good metroidvania, in souldiers we have many areas to explore and a map that we have to look at if we don’t want to get lost. The areas are large and differentiated from each other. In each area we will have secrets and areas that obviously we will not be able to access until we acquire a certain skill that allows us to do solike a bomb that overturns the debris that prevents us from passing.

We also have the classic skill treewhere we can spend points to improve our character.

during our adventure we will find statues that we must activate to save the game and heal us, yes, every time we use them, the enemies reappear. You can also use these statues to rapid movement from one place to another.

Character movement and combat feel goodwe have a block bar if we have a shield that will be spent when blocking, in addition we can parry the enemies if we do it right.

We were able to fight a few bosseswe won’t reveal much, but we will they will ask you to do your part to defeat them. In our case, we were in a dungeon and we met two fejes, a minor and another at the end of the dungeon.

A curious point is that interact with the environment we move left stick up. It’s kinda weird at first but then it’s the most comfortable. Although sometimes you accidentally tap it when hovering over a note for example.

The story of the game

As the name of the game suggests, we are soldiers, the kingdom is at war and our battalion is trapped in a cave waiting to come out, when youa valkyrie appears before us.

This warrior tells us that she appeared to take us to the afterlife since we died. However, the captain of the group disagrees and the valkyrie offers him a way outthrough Terragaya, a mysterious land between life and death.

final opinion

The title is a good metroidvania, the souls style fight suits him very well Yes 16-bit graphics fit like a glove. The gaming experience is good and challenging. E the game does not innovate in any sectioneverything we see, we’ve seen it before, you don’t feel like you’re playing anything new. If you are a fan of the genre then you will love it, It’s a lot of fun, at least as far as we’ve been able to test.