The scout focuses on avoiding getting hit. Other than that, the marine’s perk tree focuses mostly on taking a beating and not dying – through damage reduction, increased health, better healing and so on. But perks can unlock more uses for fury, such as a short burst of speed. By default, consuming fury will heal you a bit and remove all pain (more on that later). His special ability is ‘fury’, which is a resource accumulated as you kill stuff. The marine favours brawn over everything else. All three differ very significantly in terms of gameplay due to their exclusive special abilities and perk trees. The classes are marine, scout and technician. First you choose one of the five difficulties, from easy to nightmare, then one of the three available character classes, and you’re good to go. Starting the game doesn’t offer too many headaches. Now grab your minigun, there are demons here to smite. You are a lone marine blasting through an otherworldly invasion on the moons of Jupiter, while your ultimate objective is to go to hell and kill Satan. To offer a brief introduction into the game at large, you can just assume that everything in Jupiter Hell is a variation on Doom. Note that, as I said above, DoomRL is my only real experience with roguelikes, so I can’t tell you how Jupiter Hell fits in the genre at large, and most of the comparisons I’ll be making here will be with reference to its predecessor. Now the time has come to subject it to a critical examination. This was very much to my liking, because frankly speaking, DoomRL might be the only roguelike that I ever really enjoyed, so having more of it in some new fashion was a very welcome perspective.Īfter spending some time stewing in early access, it was finally released for real in 2021. Its development followed a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, which was started because the Polish fellow who made the original, freeware game, decided he would like to finally earn some potato from it.Īnyhow, everything seemed to point that Jupiter Hell would be little more than DoomRL with a new paint job. Jupiter Hell is the successor to the acclaimed Doom, the Roguelike (or, depending on whom you ask, DoomRL D**m, the Roguelike or DRL – trademark infringement is a hanging offence these days).
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