Arisen Force: HeroTest on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Experience stylish-action battles and beautiful pixel art, summon heroes across time and space, and challenge the magic tower to save the heroic spirits and goddesses!
Arisen Force: HeroTest is a action, action rpg and pixel graphics game
developed and published by Lemport.
Released on October 22nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 332 reviews of which 288 were positive and 44 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 7.44€ on Steam and has a 31% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-6100
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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This game, while a bit buggy and janky, is SOLID. It's a brawler or action-RPG with enjoyable action combat, special skills, RPG stats and mechanics, different equipment types, and a variety of characters to utilize. Once you've recruited characters you can add them to your party, swap between them on the fly mid-combo and mid-combat, as well as have a couple of characters in reserve should one (or more) of your active party be knocked unconscious. The combat is simple but has a decent level of complexity to it - you have a standard 3-attack normal combo that varies with weapon type, charge attacks that can be added onto a combo with different levels and effects of charge, jumping attacks, sprint attacks, as well as a variety of skills that are generally weapon-dependent. Each character also has specific talents that unlock at preset levels that change attack types, enhance particular skill types, and so on. There's a decent variety of characters as well - before the the 1.1.11 patch there were 5 accessible characters and 2 hidden ones. With the patch they've added even more! Characters vary from historical to mythical, with such examples being Catherine the Great, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and so on. They each have a small prologue introducing them, allowing you to get used to them and level them up a bit, before they join the party and can be used to your liking. While each character may have a starting weapon and perhaps talents and attributes suited to a particular weapon type, you can equip any weapon type on any character and adjust the skills to match. There are skill trees you can unlock but they aren't terribly exciting - they're all percent increases to particular stats like magic damage and defense. They do serve to make your characters more powerful, but in a 'numbers go up' way. Skills are really the way you customize particular characters, and some of them are particularly powerful and useful - always be on the lookout for new ones! They can also be invested with skill points to increase their potency. Equipment functions on a tiered color system, and rarer pieces of equipment have sockets that can be fitted with gems / runes that increase physical attack, defense, and so on. It's not particularly deep but it doesn't need to be - it sticks with the game's mechanical theme of making your numbers bigger. My complaint here is that strengthening weapons requires consumable items that only have a % chance to be successful. It feels a little too much like a gacha game crafting system for my liking. The character portrait art is well done, if a bit generic. Yes, I like the female character designs. No, I don't care if that rustles your jimmies. Where the game truly shines visually is the crunchy pixel-like art - the animations are excellent, character expressions are clearly visible and they even added in some jiggle physics, which was a nice detail. Monster designs are what you'd expect from a fantastical setting - snakemen, ratmen, jiggly slime girls, giant spiders, dual-wielding mantis-like creatures, myconids, so on. They aren't original but the art and animations are excellently done for each of them. A few closing thoughts: The controls have been responsive on an Xbox 360 controller and didn't require any remapping or adjustments for me personally. Combat is flashy enough to be visually appealing but without cluttering up your view or making it difficult to understand what's happening on screen. You should expect some grinding to level up new characters and perhaps gain some cash to buy the best health potions available (the normal and intermediate ones are really weak, only healing 15 and 30% of your health on consumption). Bravo, Arisen Force: HeroTest is a great entry into the brawler / action RPG genre that focuses on solid gameplay, an appealing visual style and provides lots of characters to utilize.
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I was very put off by this game due to the relatively slow paced demo and the cheap puppet animation, but after giving it a chance, it's actually a pretty good game. You play a protagonist and summon heroes from history in a dungeon crawler setting. Most levels are just combat rooms with different colored keys needed to progress, but as you get higher more gameplay modes are introduced. Combat is responsive with dodge and/or guard cancels at basically any point of an animation. The moveset system is pretty unique because every character starts with their own favorite weapon and moves, but you can also find moves in levels to change their playstyle. Some characters like Arthur have passives that basically force them to use one weapon, so you might not get as much mileage out of this as you think. After unlocking two characters, you can tag them out at any point of an attack like the Warriors Orochi games. This is where the game really opens up, as the combat becomes a lot faster and deeper. After the first few levels, you'll unlock facilities that let you buy and sell things and upgrade your weapons. The start of the game is rough at the start due to the weird "gacha" system where you can't choose what character you want to start with and are stuck with whatever it chooses for you. There are only six characters in the game currently, so after about four hours of gameplay you should have them all. Still, I've never felt this is a good system at any point, especially because the recruiting levels remove your team entirely. As a result, this game is really rough at the beginning but becomes quite fun after the initial few hours. I have to admit the marketing about the game having pixel art is a bit deceiving because everything is animated with skeletal/puppet animation, and it honestly looks really bad. This style of animation works fine for other genres, but I often feel that action games using puppet animation suffer from a lack of impact when you attack something. If you can look past the cheap animation, this is a really solid game for $10, and the developers are even promising free content.
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ArisenForce HeroTest is essentially a looter RPG that is very light on story and has a heavy focus on combat at its price point. Gameplay You can bring 3 party members at a time with the option to switch out for two more reserve members when you're not in combat. Each character has a varied set of traits that will unlock as you level (Max level is 60) and can equip any of the different weapons in the game. Each weapon has a specific playstyle and special skills can be found in the game which can enhance your playstyle. A lot of the skills can be chained together in a combo, which makes combat more fluid. However, due to its price point there is still a lot of jank in the game. For a 1.0 game, there's quite a few, but not enough for it to ruin your gameplay. For example, there's an unlockable character's equipment image is a staff, listed in Chinese, but described as a helmet. Additionally, there are times you're in the hub and after trying to exit the shopkeeper's store, it'll show you as trying to talk to them again, despite being far away from them and trying to exit the store. Gameplay wise, you'll be spending at least 20+ hours. Since the game has a ARPG looter style loot system, a lot of useless loot will be dropped, so you'll be spending a lot of time farming for the best loot if you decide on that route. However, you don't necessarily need it as the game's skill tree and weapons that drop in each stage may be enough for you to complete the game easily. There's an endgame too; which you can use one of the in-game currency to continue farming end game stages. (Like Diablo or maps in Path of Exile). However, there's not much variety currently and you'll be farming the same four stages constantly. Additionally, you can upgrade gear and install stat bonuses onto equipment slots to make your characters even beefier. You'll be doing loads of damage in no time, which can make the game incredibly easy. Story It's almost nonexistent, but it's not a bad thing, especially if you're looking for a quick game to play where you jump right into the combat. The backstory is described in the stage select of each stage. For whatever reason, you're there to climb a tower to defeat the Demon Lord. Again, there's backstory, but not enough for you to care. The translation from Chinese to English is passable, but I didn't really bother reading much at all. The story is practically negligible. Graphics I can describe it as a lower end version of Octopath. These Chinese companies have released 2DHD style games and it's neat. Characters move like they're in a cheap mobile game, but again, for the price you pay for this game, you're getting a lot of bang for the buck. Steam Deck performance You'll be playing the game with no issues at all, except for one stage that lowers the FPS a little. It's not enough for it to be game breaking, but definitely noticeable. Overall Despite its graphical issues and feeling incomplete at times (the dev is adding features), the combat carries this game quite well. They're also releasing two more games with similar style of gameplay soon, so look forward to those if you're itching for more ARPG looting action. Overall, the game is definitely a 7/10 with the negligible story and glitches being the reason for point deductions, but the action carrying the game.
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Game Review The game is quite engaging! 🎮 The experience on the handheld console is fantastic. 👍 The combat mechanics are enjoyable, and the designs of the girls are visually stunning. 🌟 Points to Consider There are too few interactions with the girls. 🤔 I would love to see more interactive elements incorporated into the game! 🗣️ It would also be great to have Spanish language support included. 🇪🇸 Lastly, I couldn’t find where to view my achievements. 🏆
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This is a great little beatemup / ARPG. It's got the graphical style of some of these neo retro RPGs but the squad based beat em up gameplay of something like Dragon's Crown. For the price it seems like a lot of content too. It could use some QoL improvements but overall if you enjoy beat em ups and dungeon crawling it's a safe bet. Looking forward to their next release.
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Developer
Lemport
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Lemport
Release
22 Oct 2024
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