Intricately designed clockwork robots of wildly escalating design, these machines have left a bloody mark on Paris and its people.Īppalled by her husband’s actions, the queen enlists the assistance of Aegis, an automaton with uncanny emotional intelligence and combat skills. The French revolution has arrived but due to some historical tweaks, the masses have been violently subdued by King Louis XVI’s automaton army. The end result is a game that definitely feels of its budget range but charms despite this, or perhaps because of it.

While Greedfall set its sights on Western RPGs, Steelrising reworks the FromSoftware formula with a variety of changes that land with varying levels of success. But in these degrees of separation, I found both deeply amusing.Ĭoming to us by way of French game developers Spiders, Steelrising is the latest attempt from the studio to capture the magic of AAA game experiences on a AA game budget. Memetic riffs on popular concepts, the origin point of my joke, is as abstracted from its source material as Steelrising is from its. The history behind this joke is as recent as the proliferation of the Soulslike in the gaming industry.

She puts it on, it matches the studded leggings I found earlier, and once again I crack a smile because she is, in fact, slaying. Aegis, my customised automaton, is making her way through a war-torn Paris and has just found yet another sickening little hat.

“Is aught a slay?” I chuckle to myself for the third time that night.

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