It looks fantastic, plays well and is positively oozing with the potential for greatness.ĭeveloper Q&A Leviathyn: Who are you and what is your role on Secret of Grindea? As I said before, the story of the game is literally about finding epic loot and I can’t even begin to imagine the insane and over the top things the weapon and ability system may offer later on.Īlthough Secret of Grindea still feels a lot more like a demo than a beta at this point, it definitely feels like something RPG fans will want to check out. It makes me really excited to see what Secret of Grindea will throws at players who reach its endgame. All the skill, crafting and weapon systems are a far cry from completion, but the content that is there is already super compelling. My personal favorite thing about Secret of Grindea so far is the amount of potential it shows.
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While I look forward to seeing what kinds of fun companions the full version will offer, the dialogue exchanges with the protagonist’s personified inventory bode well. It put a fun meta-twist on classic JRPG tropes with the protagonist finding themselves as the chosen one (or Collector) of a fantasy world obsessed with loot-gathering. The writing of Secret of Grindea so far is, to be frank, hilarious. Especially given the notable number of side-quests I came across during my playthrough of the beta. That said, it’s still early and I would not be surprised if the RPG ended up as 10+ hour romp. Given the sprawling nature of its inspiration, I was a bit surprised to find Secret of Grindea a bit small in this regard.
The beta shows off a pretty fun boss fight and I very eager to see what else the game has to offer in this regard. Like Dark Souls, it’s always obvious that any damage or death you sustain in the game was the result of your own actions. Something that I found particularly refreshing to see given the sometimes nebulous difficulty curves that have plagued many a Secret of Mana-wannabe.Ĭombat is fun and responsive and I really liked the thought that had gone into giving each type of enemy a different style of threat. There’s barely any loading times to speak of and the game’s early stages are cleverly designed to teach you what you need to know to continue. Pixel-Ferret are nailing that pixel-by-pixel crafted look and the game runs with the kind of smoothness their inspirations could only dream of.Ī major highlight of my time with Secret of Grindea was the ease of which I could start up and play the game. It’s clear that a lot of time and effort has gone into Secret of Grindea’s visual and the game runs gorgeously. Secret of Grindea is definitely in its early stages, but given the polish and detail in the game already, it’s hard to not get excited about the potential it showcases. I spent some time with the game’s beta and sat down for a Q&A session with one of the game’s developers to see what all the fuss is about. On one hand it’s a parody of a classic, but on the other it’s a clever re-imagining of an older style of action-RPG for a today’s gamers. The Pixel Ferret-developed action-RPG was born out a passion for the SNES classic Secret of Mana. Secret of Grindea is a great example of this kind of game. Arguably, gaming enthusiasts have become part of the development process itself – either they are the chorus calling for these games to be made by willing developers developers or they are willing to step up and develop these games themselves.
Fan enthusiasm is bringing gamers everything from Broken Age and Tesla Effect to bigger sequels like Mirror’s Edge 2. Enthusiasts are no longer a niche, they are a driving force behind the kinds of games that are getting developed. If there’s anything that the changing landscape of games development is showing us, it’s that fans have power.
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