![]() ![]() There’s no shame in getting beaten once in a while in DH:A, and in a group, I’d suppose it would serve as a lead in to those post-fight conversations that always begin with “Duuuuude.”ĭungeon Hunter is ugly. They’ve got strong, diverse attacks and never go down easily. Boss battles provide good thrills as well. ![]() There is a certain thrill to surviving a swarm like that, multiplied greatly for those lucky enough to have a friend or two playing alongside. They might not always have the strength to compete with your hero, but that’s more than made up for when there’s like 17 of them simultaneously charging one of you. There is a certain excitement to watching that level progress bar go up little by little, and grindaholics might find themselves addicted to the cycle of fighting and growing, fighting and growing, time out to buy and sell stuff, fighting and growing….Įnemies attack in great numbers in DH: Alliance, so there’s no shortage of challenge, especially in a single player run. Upon leveling up, characters are given a few points which they can distribute as they please, adding a nice, addictive element to the progress scheme. As expected of a game like this, enemies will drop all sorts of items, some of which will prove useful, but most of which will end up being sold for a few coins back in the village. Still only three characters, and they’re still all dudes, same story, same…virtually everything.ĭungeon Hunter: Alliance is a simple title in which the goal is generally to slice one’s way to the end of a dungeon, take down a powerful boss, and call it a day. Other than that, it’s pretty much the same game. It’s nice that it’s not mandatory, because it’s hard to make it work well, especially in the heat of battle. This isn’t the only way to do that, as the right analog stick does that same thing, if you’d prefer. Most prominently, dragging one’s finger across the back panel can aim the player’s fairy helper. PlayStation Move implementation has been replaced with touchscreen features. Despite the fact Alliance has been available on the PS3 for over a year, Gameloft simply could not find a way to make a port of the PS3 version compatible with the original in online play.Not much has changed in the move from PS3 (via PSN) to PS Vita. ![]() Traditional online multiplayer is also included, but the big surprise is, it’s not cross-play compatible. There’s also the addition of ad hoc multiplayer if you can find up to three additional friends with Vitas and this game to play with. The $40 goes towards being able to pinch the screen to zoom in and out, and using the rear touch screen to move your fairy/special attack around the screen, instead of the much easier and far more efficient right analog stick. No extra areas, no new monsters, no new weapons, nothing. A cheap, DLC game on the PS3 is now $40 on the Vita, and, barring the addition of touch controls, it is the exactly the same game content-wise. And that’s the 800 lbs gorilla that is sitting in the room, pounding its chest so loud it’s making your teeth vibrate. Now we get a slightly tweaked version of that same game on the Vita, and it’ll cost you $40 for the physical copy, $35 if you download it. Still, at $13, it was not an expensive pill to swallow, and PS3 owners really had nothing else like it to play until Dungeon Siege III dropped a few months later. The graphics-particularly on an HD console-did the game no favors, the online play was iffy at best, and the game made the cardinal sin of having buggy, “floating” stats that changed at any given moment, nearly defeating the entire purpose of a loot-based game. Alliance, not having any competition to worry about from Torchlight on the PS3 carved a nice little niche for itself from the desperate, but it was by no means a stellar game. Gameloft’s penchant for skirting the border of plagiarism is well known in the industry and Diablo is an obvious target since the fans of that particular franchise are starved for any action RPG experience that involves dungeon crawling and loot. When it first appeared on the Playstation Network, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance was already a dated game. ![]()
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