HunterX: code name T

If you liked HunterX, then it's more or less the same and that's a good thing for me.

This was a nice sequel to HunterX. There are no massive gameplay changes from the first title, and the map and story quality is about the same as the first game. That is to say: the map and story are basic, yet perfectly serviceable to the game. Bosses are considerably more enjoyable in this game as well. The gameplay changes relate mainly to combat and traversal. The biggest combat-wise is the linking of the mana and mortal blow bars. Using Occult now consumes part of your bar for mortal blows. This means you have to choose now between the two. It is a considerable nerf to potential DPS, but not such to make your character feel weak. It's more like: Tsuki was incredibly overpowered in the first game (and that was part of the appeal of the first HunterX, imo) if you combined the right mana with mortal blows, and Taiyo is just very strong. The traversal changes have to do with new movement abilities which I will not spoil, but they make exploring the map quite a bit more convenient, and shorten runback times. A more moderate to minor change to the combat is the new movesets of new weapon types. The weapon types have differences in speed and how they stun enemies, which cha…

If you like HunterX, you'll like this. This dev makes fun games...they aren't going to win any awards for narrative or art direction, but they are fun to play. I enjoy the extra QoL features in this one too like fast travel from most save points, and increasing karma amount from the floating crystals.

This is a solid game, it's not one of the absolute top metroidvanias. Don't let that be too negative though, it's solid. It's always fun to discover a new weapon, and there's about 4 weapon types. I personally am not sure they various weapon types are balanced super-well. It does feel like the swords have the highest DPS (the greatswords feel a bit too slow given their damage). A similar negative is that the hunter potions don't seem to scale sufficiently, I had like 30 health and it would take generally 2 potions / hit towards the end. None of the bosses were too difficult, and some all some bosses were a bit annoying ([spoiler]the humans bosses had a bad habit of backtracking which caused me a bunch of whiffs[/spoiler]). I didn't really use magic, so I can't speak to its balance. Definitely fun for a playthrough, though I'm not sure there's too many deltas from the earlier hunterx game.

It's alright.

If you are looking for a basic metroidvania to pass the time then get SotN, Afterimage or some other good metroidvanias first and then if you see this on sale and just want to kill 12 hours of your life... then you can buy it.