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"The Last Spell", the game where the monsters don't care about the curfew

2021-10-20T17:34:35.367Z


With its old school graphics, this French video game makes us embody a handful of warriors facing the living dead every night.


Men have devastated the world.

This is what happens when one wrongly summons the dark forces of magic.

Worse, a strange purple haze now surrounds the ruined city where mankind's last survivors are holed up, and from this haze emerges the living dead and other hideous creatures every evening.

The only hope for getting out of it: complete the ritual that will banish magic from our reality forever and, at the same time, make this purple cloud and the horrors it harbors disappear.

But this last spell, the one that will chase away all magic, requires days of preparation. And during this time, we must resist. Developed by Ishtar Games, an independent studio based in Lille and Bordeaux, and currently in early access, the video game "The Last Spell" puts you at the head of a handful of mercenaries who are trying somehow to enforce the cover. -fire ! Each night you must defend the city, or rather what is left of it, against a tide of creatures that besieges it.

During the day, you therefore develop your end of town, drawn in large pixels, by laying new ramparts and by constructing buildings which will generate gold and equipment, or heal your heroes.

In the evening, the dreadful gushes out of the purple fog.

The clashes then take place in turn.

Each of your fighters, three at the start, can carry out a number of attacks, melee or ranged.

Each weapon has different.

Bows can kill an undead from far away or send a volley of arrows at a group.

The spears allow you to fan close opponents.

Wands grant the power to shock multiple enemies.

Endearing warriors

Moreover, our heroes have a fairly significant firepower and quickly show themselves able to cut several villains, at once.

Moreover, between two sleepless nights to fight, your squad gains in skills and power, and improves its weapons and armor, in front of ever more powerful.

But the next day, rebelote, it is necessary to return to work in front of these midnight demons, always more numerous and dangerous.

Sometimes you will find yourself with dozens of monsters on a spree in front of you.

Until that fateful moment when your heroes will inevitably be overwhelmed by the masses.

The heroes sometimes die under the attacks of the hordes but are reborn almost immediately.

Of course, “The Last Spell” turns out to be a bit repetitive, but it seduces with its retro graphics and especially its role-playing aspect, where you have to gradually improve your group of adventurers.

Each character also has its own, modifiable look, with its strengths and drawbacks.

I happened to inherit a penguin, unable to carry a shield besides his sword.

Above all, "The Last Spell" has the merit of being a difficult game.

We find ourselves trembling for our warriors who have been lovingly advanced, fight after fight, wondering if they will survive the next night.

But when the game is lost - and whatever you do, you will lose - it doesn't stop.

Two strange deities systematically bring you back to the first day of war.

Admittedly, you then return to the battle with new combatants without experience, but these entities grant you permanent bonuses in the process: more action points for your heroes, better equipment ... You then leave, flower to the gun, with the mad hope of resisting longer than the previous part.

And hope gives life, right?

At least until the next night.

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On PC (Steam), 20 euros.

Coming soon to Switch.

Source: leparis

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