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This helps you with deck-building but then again, what kind of spells are in these families? Would you know if you are building a Flow deck that not all Flow spells are in the Hearth family but some are in Kinesys? Or that arguably the best Flow payoff spell, Waterfall, is in neither of those families but in Doublelift? Not without a lot of experience and familiarity, that's for sure.īut what I just described above is fairly involved and probably would not be able to explain itself well in a tutorial anyway. The challenging problem? There is a selection of more than 10 families of spells, of which TWO you are able to set as your foci. What selecting your Focus allows you to do is to see spells from certain families of spells more often.

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For example, one tutorial show you how to set your Focus, but it doesn't teach you what to set your Focus on. This game teaches you how to paddle and throws you in a whirlpool. Should you be taking every spell in the game at every opportunity? If you're familiar at all with deck-building games, the answer is usually no. You're taught how to do most of these things, but very little effort is spared teaching you which of these things are important and what you should be doing. One Step From Eden does nothing to show you the ropes of the game outside for a handful of tutorials that teach you how to use spells and basic attacks. But what did it take to actually get to this point? This game presents to you so many interesting decisions on both micro and macro levels. You can take this pact, which grants 25 Money to buy that one artifact that just completes your deck but in exchange, that pact will force you to deal with random swords falling on your side of the battlefield for the next 3 battles! You're at half HP with the floor boss just around the corner.

All of a sudden a deal with the devil presents itself to you. wait, pacts? What are those? It's always been right in front of you but you never paid attention to them until now that you've had a few seconds for your mind to breathe. Then there's the Shopkeeper who you see offers a slew of different passives and spells and. You pat yourself on the back because you could have taken that one Flow spell that cost 3 mana, but you smartly realized your main win-condition is to spam Rock Juggle and not just mindlessly add every card that gives Flow into your deck. Eventually you get to the point of proudly seeing your 'Flow' deck come together. The macro of the game, the managing of your spells, choosing what is the fat you need to trim and what family of spells you want to see more often to build your deck towards is also really gratifying. But this is only the micro side of things. You're focused and doing all you can to beat the opponent in front of you, and if you're doing at least half of those things correctly, you're going to feel really good about yourself. The fun thing about this game is this crazy juggling act that throws you in a trance. All the while, you're trying to attack accurately, but also you're reacting to their attacks and trying to nimbly dodge out of the way. You can be hopping from one square to the next like the platforms are on fire, holding down your right trigger to spam Saffron's mega buster, whilst slinging spells as soon as you get the mana for them at the enemy. It requires so much from you, there is almost always something else you could have been doing to play optimally, and when you feel like you're doing 4 or 5 things right all at once, it really makes you feel like a bad ass. It is a nerve-wracking crazy onslaught of fast-paced battles mixed in with clever and thoughtful deck-building mechanics. And when you die? You lose everything, it's not an RPG, it's a constant uphill battle challenging you to survive for as long as you can. With each victory you are awarded money and opportunities to acquire more passives and active commands that are thrown in your deck which you draw from and utilize in battle.

You are thrown in a fight against one or two relatively simple enemies to start, with a loadout of spells, passives, and basic attack command that is unique to your character/config. One-line summary: One Step From Eden is a rogue-like mash-up between Megaman Battle Network and Slay the Spire. I wanted give my thoughts and opinion on the game for anyone on the fence and wondering what the game is like. Wanted to do a little write-up on my thoughts on One Step From Eden, a simultaneous release on the Nintendo Switch and PC.

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