Silent Hope is a master of walking the fine line between potentially boring and perfectly fine.
This is a 3DS-looking game that tells the story of a kingdom that lost its words. The king, aeons ago, stole the words (?) and went into a huge dungeon, or something. The princess cried so hard she turned into a crystal. Now, her voice called 7 heroes to her, and these heroes are you. You can take the heroes, one at a time, to tackle the big dungeon in which the old king lies in wait.
Fortunately, they didn't make the dungeon all subterranean, looking like old temples and caves all the time. Actually, the dungeon looks like overworld type environments. Think "autumnal forest" and "grassy hills" and "halloween woods". Every environment has its fair share of different enemies, who look like very 3DS versions of classic fantasy monsters, lizard warriors, wolfs, mmorpg-looking jumping bunnies. I kid you not: I'm 10 hours in and yet no spiders showed up.
If you aren't fighting and crawling in the dungeon, you probably are in the hub area. The hub area acts like a mobile game about managing a farm. You get raw materials in the dungeon, and the hub area has facilities that turn those materials into the good ones that can be used to craft gear. You queue tasks for these facilities, that take real time to pump out your desired objects. So you'll probably jump back into the dungeon to make the most out of your time.
Heroes are very 3DS looking dudes that do not look like main characters, IMO. As the game's story is about a king who stole words, they are silent, which may be a blessing. The game incentivizes you to switch between different heroes in a run. You only have 2 healing potions with each one of them, and after you use those, you'll be safer if you just switch your guys and take one that still has its consumables on.
That said, heroes can be geared up and they also can learn and upgrade skills. This is the coolest part of the upgrade system. You start with a base class and the possibility to acquire 3 different active skills. As the game progresses, you open 2 more classes for each character, and you can combine active skills of all the classes for making your own setup of possible actions.
For me, this is an absolutely 7/10 game. If you want a simple ARPG that won't ask you to min-max nor to engage with advanced item management, this is one of the best games available. But this is the kind of game that, although its good, exists in order to pass the time. You play Silent Hope while you listen to a podcast, and then you wonder were those precious hours went.
This is a 3DS-looking game that tells the story of a kingdom that lost its words. The king, aeons ago, stole the words (?) and went into a huge dungeon, or something. The princess cried so hard she turned into a crystal. Now, her voice called 7 heroes to her, and these heroes are you. You can take the heroes, one at a time, to tackle the big dungeon in which the old king lies in wait.
Fortunately, they didn't make the dungeon all subterranean, looking like old temples and caves all the time. Actually, the dungeon looks like overworld type environments. Think "autumnal forest" and "grassy hills" and "halloween woods". Every environment has its fair share of different enemies, who look like very 3DS versions of classic fantasy monsters, lizard warriors, wolfs, mmorpg-looking jumping bunnies. I kid you not: I'm 10 hours in and yet no spiders showed up.
If you aren't fighting and crawling in the dungeon, you probably are in the hub area. The hub area acts like a mobile game about managing a farm. You get raw materials in the dungeon, and the hub area has facilities that turn those materials into the good ones that can be used to craft gear. You queue tasks for these facilities, that take real time to pump out your desired objects. So you'll probably jump back into the dungeon to make the most out of your time.
Heroes are very 3DS looking dudes that do not look like main characters, IMO. As the game's story is about a king who stole words, they are silent, which may be a blessing. The game incentivizes you to switch between different heroes in a run. You only have 2 healing potions with each one of them, and after you use those, you'll be safer if you just switch your guys and take one that still has its consumables on.
That said, heroes can be geared up and they also can learn and upgrade skills. This is the coolest part of the upgrade system. You start with a base class and the possibility to acquire 3 different active skills. As the game progresses, you open 2 more classes for each character, and you can combine active skills of all the classes for making your own setup of possible actions.
For me, this is an absolutely 7/10 game. If you want a simple ARPG that won't ask you to min-max nor to engage with advanced item management, this is one of the best games available. But this is the kind of game that, although its good, exists in order to pass the time. You play Silent Hope while you listen to a podcast, and then you wonder were those precious hours went.
Katsono
2 months ago