Nobody Saves the World

Good game, interesting concept, fun abilities. Areas and dungeon design was cool.

Slightly grindy for levelling up, some dialogue took too long, certain areas were too filled with monsters.

Otherwise a very good game for coop play.

Having played Guacamelee! a few years ago, I had pretty good expectations for the Drinkbox studio latest game and I think it delivered. It's not a Metroidvania and goes more into RPG territory, but it has some similarities with the drawing style and the general humor the game offers.

The premise of the game is that you are "Nobody" but you can change forms, from creatures like a rat or a horse to various human forms like guard and ranger. Each form offers a different selection of abilities, and the more you play with a form the more abilities you get to unlock (and eventually more forms). The game does offer some customization as each form can equip 1 ability from another form and various passive abilities that you have unlocked in the other forms. So depending on the dungeon you are going for, you'll want to take the right form with the right activated abilities and passive abilities.

This does give the game a good pacing, you are constantly unlocking and improving your general kit so you become stronger and stronger and your abilities are also changing in the process. The game plays a little bit like a Diablo with waves of enemies coming in but the comparison ends there as the game is very colorful and humorous. One perhaps flaw I can give it is that all dungeons have a similar layout of having a few floors and then a checkpoint before the boss fight. It would have been interesting to see more originality in there, but the game does play a lot like comfort food as you can just blaze through the stages if you customize your character correctly for what you are facing. It requires a fair amount of grinding to unlock things, but I generally don't mind this process. The difficulty is not particularly hard, aside from a few dungeons that I had to retry a few times but there is not much punishment from dying so you just go on and on until you get.

Overall it's a good game. A little longer than you average indie action game (took me roughly 15 hours) and perhaps at times it overstays its welcome a little, but those aspects are to be expected in most games. Most of all it's pretty fun to play and I would recommend it, it's well worth trying among the loads of games on Game Pass.