Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption

The Dark Souls series of action and RPG games

changed the direction of many subsequent action and RPG games that attempted to provide the same experience and challenge as that famous series, which some consider too difficult, others in turn, make sure it offers the challenge required by such games. Many games have tried but failed to provide the same experience for one reason or another, and others tried to introduce something new to the experience and failed. Today we will get to know another adapted game from the famous series Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption by the Chinese development team Dark Star, and we will see what happens. Whether the difference managed to provide an experience worthy of attention.

The story follows a soldier who loses his memory in an area of ​​the Kingdom of Canvis where “sin” has spread. This is about the seven deadly sins: laziness, greed, gluttony, pride and other sins that ultimately lead to human destruction. You will be confronted with 7 people. Various people were controlled by these sins and became the being that embodied them, and you must defeat these sins to save what is left of the kingdom. The story of the game will tell us a little about the background of each of the seven sins. The story is not full of details and not deep, but it serves its required purpose and ends with a fairly comprehensive explanation. What happened? You?

The game offers a dark atmosphere and a distinctive and beautiful art direction as it presents the experience differently than other games while maintaining a kind of prestige for the leaders. The technical level varies slightly in terms of textures from one arena to another. The performance of the game also differs between these arenas. You will notice that in some confrontations that contain less detail in their arenas the game runs smoothly and at a frame rate of 60, while in others it runs at a speed that can go down to 30 frames, but still remain responsive and the character’s performance is good, so this issue does not significantly affect the experience and may be resolved through future updates at the audio level. The game offers some tunes that were undoubtedly taken from some Dark Souls tunes that give an epic atmosphere to the confrontation.

The playstyle is very simple and you rely on the normal sword and your shield to block

, or the heavy sword, whose attacks are slower and won’t help you much in blocking. This depends on your playing style. You have a number of tools at your disposal, including some spears and firebombs, in addition to a tool that allows you to restore your life points. Finally, there is a tool that allows you to increase the damage of your attacks in return for slowly depleting the life bar throughout the operation, and that’s all the game system offers.

Before facing a leader in their arena, you must sacrifice one of your character’s advantages or resources, such as: E.g. its ability to slowly restore health over time, or when the character becomes exhausted and collapses for a period of time when their stamina is depleted or the number of tools decreases. Which you can use and other sacrifices that weaken your character and each confrontation you face is more difficult than the last. The confrontations are slow and easy. The game system is designed to ensure that you get used to the experience and can use your skills very early on. Skill is actually your only weapon here. You need to monitor the attack pattern. For the leader, during the confrontation, he moves to different phases according to his life meter, and you will undoubtedly die many times before knowing the correct strategy, since each leader has his own weak points and a different strategy than others to defeat him .

If you find the right strategy, you will gradually move towards victory and most of the time you will not be able to throw many blows, which means that the confrontations will last a long time. The slow pace increases here and the difficulty will make you feel excited, tense and anxious with every step you take towards victory because of the fear of… losing the confrontation after all this time , and that you may make some mistakes due to haste and heightened tension makes the confrontations wonderfully enthusiastic and challenges you to give your best performance at each attempt. If you find that you cannot finish one of the confrontations, you can return to win back one of your victims, but in exchange for their return. The boss you defeated again requires you to return at a later date to defeat it.

The experience is mostly limited to confrontations with leaders

, and after completing the seven sins you are left with one final confrontation. Although these confrontations are the only content the game offers, you will spend between 7 and 10 hours, maybe a little more, to complete the experience. After completing it for the first time, you will receive a new weapon. As a reward for your efforts, you may receive this weapon to replay the experience and hone your skills further. Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption is an experience aimed at a specific audience and is not suitable for everyone. If you are a fan of difficulty and challenge, this game will have exactly what you are looking for with epic confrontations and an experience that demands all of you. .. What skills do you have?