The Awakener: Battle Tendency

Some of you might not believe it, but the peppy Chinese action game The Awakener: Battle Tendency—a musou + Diablo-like looter-slasher hybrid—is actually a damn good time. More than that, I sat down with it today and ended up glued for a solid few hours: a little before my final work sync call, and a lot after it. Fun fact—this game essentially grew out of the assets from a similarly named roguelite that apparently didn't sell too well. The standout thing is that even amidst the total visual chaos of particle effects everywhere, I can still clearly read what's happening on screen. And that's all down to them making the attack tells vivid and legible—you always know where the enemy strike is coming from. My only problem is that my reflexes aren't sharp enough to nail perfect dodges and parries every time (which grant counterattacks), and I don't always get the timing right on launch attacks either. What the game could really use: 1) A more varied soundtrack (they've already tweaked it a bit since launch). There are some genuinely catchy hooks—like the dual metal guitars in the forest areas, or the heavy riffs for the castle and hell themes—but it needs more variety. Right now it …

It's a decent Musou, very lackluster overall. Enjoyed it for a little bit but it feels very incomplete. Very repetitive and clunky. I hope it improves, until then I can't recommend it over other musou games. And having the diablo style of hoarding items just makes the experience worse, the developers are trying to fuse two very different playerbases that do not mix together that well.

Steamdeck User: This game is cool, but in order to run smooth on my steam deck I had to put the Settings to low and it looked like it was a game still an alpha.

You know what? There was a hot elf in a bikini wielding an impractically huge sword, and I mashed every attack button for 8 hours until everything died. Ten dollars well spent. More videogames should be like this.

As we can't leave neutral I give it a positive. I am having a good time with the game and I will try to 100% it but there is a but. It is trying hard to emulate games like Dynasty Warriors and for that I commend them. But it's lacking the variety. Yes you have different classes, represented by different characters you can play, but only the first has different skins to unlock. There are only 4 stages that have 3 different location you loop through every 5 levels. From level 40 it will mix from them together. This makes the game feel very sluggish to get through now and I think I will only play it in small bursts now to get the 100%. I would recommend picking this game up on a sale and not full price due to the lack of content and existing bugs like enemies getting stuck in the ground, falling through the world or getting stuck in the falling animation. Player wise mechanically it plays well and there are a bunch of Weapons, equipment and Eidolon combinations you can mess around with. At one point I made my Eidolons so OP I didn't have to lift a single finger :D.

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