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If you’re struggling to kill bosses because your damage is too low, it feels demoralizing to have your health bar slowly chipped away at by enemy attacks that you could dodge easily individually, but there are too damn many of them. This makes getting hit less run-ending than Vampire Survivors, where you can get suddenly murdered out of nowhere, but also makes it feel much rougher when you’re doing badly. You may get caught out by overwhelming damage early in your time with Soulstone Survivors, but that’s much less common when you pick up some permanent upgrades to increase your survivability. You will die in Soulstone Survivors for two reasons: either you’re not doing enough damage, or you can’t dodge enough to get out of harm’s way consistently. You can build your characters to the point where they’re swinging their axes at superspeed, or increase the area of your abilities so they cover half the screen. While in Vampire Survivors you need to unlock passive items, Soulstone Survivors gives you cards that modify your stats and the stats of your abilities immediately. You can upgrade abilities directly when you get their cards, or if you get upgrades that apply to a specific type of ability, which allows you to tailor builds much easier. The dash also gives you the ability to manipulate enemy waves much easier and eliminates a lot of those feel-bad moments where you get blindsided and die instantly. ![]() Being able to change your facing is a big thing, allowing you to prioritize targets if you wish. Your dash is a get-out-of-jail-free card most of the time, and instead of making individual attacks hit harder Soulstone Survivors prefers to amp up difficulty by throwing out more attacks.Īt the same time, it does feel like you have a lot more control in Soulstone Survivors than Vampire Survivors. This is because although enemies can overwhelm you, you’re given a lot of tools to get out of trouble. Soulstone Survivors feels a lot less compelling in moment-to-moment gameplay. There are, however, drawbacks to this approach. It’s rare that enemies, especially in the early waves, will be able to overwhelm you completely. In Soulstone, you have to keep an eye on the long term even when things get harder later in the game. You’re able to plan out your build more effectively and make decisions with lasting repercussions much easier because individual enemies are far less of a threat to you. Soulstone Survivors is more about the big picture. If Vampire Survivors is a zombie movie, then Soulstone Survivors is a superhero film. ![]() Soulstone Survivors aims for a different tact, making you feel like an epic hero holding out against waves of demonic monsters with your supernatural skills. Vampire Survivors lives up to its title by making you feel as if you are a lone survivor up against a ravenous horde of the night. Your camera is pulled back further, enemies take more hits to defeat and their red attack circles, telegraphing their abilities, are often easier to spot than the enemies themselves in the mess of combat. Despite comparisons to Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors is a far grander if less intimate experience.
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