Dread Trials

DISCLAIMER: At the time of submitting this review, I have yet to finish the story. This is easily my current favorite to the hack & slash collection at the moment, out of the story rich ones at least. The game is all about going around, eliminating the enemies, and progressing the story. Some options that expand on the character customization are there, but they're mostly not that significant, i.e. you do get to change outfits, accessories, hairstyle, eye color, and hair color. The story that the game carries didn't seem to have anything related to the time pressure, so the player can choose when to complete the story objective without having to worry about some timeout or additional consequences. Losing in a fight and getting the game over mostly sets the player back to the latest checkpoint, but also includes some of the enemies capture the protagonist instead. The protagonist then has to escape without being seen; Once again, without any time limit, just gotta pick the proper timing. If seen attempting to escape however, then there comes the game over. Characters do seem to have somewhat deep personalities that are developing throughout the story, and are very natural. I ha…

It's sorta the Disney of bondage. It's bondage for the whole family to enjoy! Hitbear should go full h scenes....as it would sell better but I still love you Hitbear.

I would really recommend this game. While it continues the "Dread bloodline", it is less grim and dark and more bondage fun. Compared to Eternal Dread 3, the characters are more vivid and game has more fun scenes and episodes.

I love any game that lets you capture enemy units/characters and make them your own. Was my main reason to get this game. That feature ended being extremely barebones and lacking. You can have one prisoner at a time. OK, fine. I take my prisoner, go zap them a few times, and now they're willing to join my party. Cool. Early on, my first bandit was actually stronger than me in some ways and quite useful. Useful AI teammates are rare, so I'll give it props for that. However, I captured a second bandit and... was not allowed to use her. Party limit reached. I guess I was hoping to capture enemies like pokemon. Not literally, of course, but... something. There isn't even a menu or interface for your "party". Your only option is to tie your teammate back up and swap them out (and a few other meaningless options). The more, err, cruel and dark aspects of the game aren't really for me and I'm not gonna judge it for that (I mean I will, but I'm aware it's personal preference), but the rest of the game is just a little too jank and lacking for me to push past it. Literally you just grab an enemy, convert them back in town, and now they act exactly the same, just as a teammate and not an …

Personal thoughts: seems this dev is just publishing the same game over and over, just with some changes here and there, looking over the "eternal dread 1-3" games it seems to use the same asset packages from player models and environment to combat systems, like if you were shown only gameplay of this game and the eternal dread games you would think its the same game just at different points in the game that's how similar they are. there's no mention about this game being the latest chapter in this dev's series of games so we can only assume it's a standalone game i guess.....either way comparing the ED1-3 and this game together it really just feels like a reupload of the same game just with slight tweaks here and there. Gameplay notes: on the upside it has controller support (that's always a plus). on the downside combat is meh. graphics are fine (can't complain here). gameplay needs work (though looking at the other games not much is going to change). combat is basic, sure you got "skills" but i don't think anything is really balanced or thought out properly a good example being summons, maybe i missed something but there doesn't seem to be a way to dismiss once you sum…

Eh.. Some spell controls are convulated as hell, theres no info about this game anywhere, you have to test whether the effects do what you would think they would do, but all and all, the game is epic