Assessment: Large Helmet Heroes (Nintendo Change)

Large Helmet Heroes is a 3D beat-’em-up the place you (and a good friend) play as one in all many knights attempting to save lots of the princess! This recreation was clearly impressed by Fort Crashers, developed by The Behemoth. Taking part in Large Helmet Heroes was a blast in each single-player and co-op, so let’s speak about it.

Beginning the sport, you get to decide on between three difficulties: Straightforward, Medium, and Onerous. When you’ve chosen that, you’ll get thrown proper into the sport. You begin out with one character: Sheperd (or, for those who’re beginning with two gamers, you’ll even have Thunder). The primary degree is a tutorial degree, displaying you each final little bit of what you are able to do. I don’t suppose there’s a greater option to begin a recreation like this, and it leaves you with all of the supplies to enhance.

Shifting to the characters, there are 28 characters in complete, cut up into 4 totally different fight varieties: Warrior, Brute, Rouge, and Monk. The Warrior makes use of a sword and protect, the Brute makes use of a two-handed heavy weapon, the Rouge makes use of two daggers, and the Monk makes use of a workers. Every of the 4 combatants has totally different taking part in kinds to be taught and totally different heavy assaults and dashes, making every distinctive.

Each character has their very own particular potential, too, which aligns with their identify. These skills vary from simply OK to completely wonderful. Whereas I believe all of them cool and distinctive, some heroes are simply flat-out higher than others solely due to their particular skills. I don’t contemplate this an issue, however I do suppose it removes a number of the pleasure of getting new characters that look cool while you understand they’re simply flat-out worse than who you have been utilizing earlier than.

The gameplay is easy, however enjoyable. In every degree, you’ll run round defeating enemies, utilizing something you could find to assist. Theres a plethora of enjoyable and fascinating weapons you may choose up all through every degree that may be an enormous assist in every run, wether or not it’s a crossbow, a pair of plungers, or perhaps a broom! All through the extent, there will probably be mini video games to play, bosses to battle, waves to defend, secrets and techniques to find, and characters to unlock. Each degree is totally different, and although some are quite a bit harder than others, it nonetheless makes for a terrific expertise.

The one actual downside I’ve had is that some unlockable characters are a little bit too effectively hidden, to the purpose the place I’ve spent hours in search of a single character and nonetheless not discovered it.

The fight in Large Helmet Heroes is reasonably difficult however straightforward to be taught. The enemies get tougher with every space, but it surely’s not exponentially harder. There’s a large variety of enemies and minibosses, every representing the areas that they’re in. From goblins to cardboard pirates to mummies, each space feels distinctive and totally different from the final.

The sport appears wonderful. From the 3D fight characters to their 2D participant card when choosing them within the menu to the great degree design with all types of secrets and techniques hidden all through, Large Helmet Heroes is simply, merely put, astounding. The animations are very crisp. The one unhealthy factor is that a whole lot of enemies and objects clip by way of partitions. Typically, it’s not very noticeable. Different instances, it’s extraordinarily clear that it’s occurring.

The audio and music are fairly good, as effectively. There are a whole lot of sound results on this recreation, most of which work extraordinarily effectively and sound nice. A pair, nonetheless, do get repetitive. The music is sort of in the identical boat; it strains up with every space and what’s occurring round you, but it surely stays the identical all through the whole degree (excluding some small segments and boss fights). It sounds good, but it surely simply will get repetitive after a little bit of taking part in.

Large Helmet Heroes was a blast to play by way of, and although it has its small bugs and points, I nonetheless suppose it’s a beautiful recreation. From the character and degree design to the music and gameplay, it’s extraordinarily enjoyable, and it’s even higher with a good friend.