You can further customize your Daughters of destruction with modifiers - referred to as Memories - which are gained through the normal flow of battle when defeating foes.
The idea is to keep building stronger and hardier warriors through sacrifice, resurrection, and trait gains, making each successive run a fair bit more manageable. These traits will also carry over when resurrecting one of your Daughters. Traits include +Critical Chance, +AP, and +EXP, to name a few. In addition to that, Daughters will learn Traits to boost their stats as they experience more and more battles. Blademasters will bestow a hefty bonus to damage, while Shieldbearers lend a large HP increase. Not only will you get to heal another Daughter to full health, but they will take on an attribute from them as well. Sacrificing a Daughter isn’t all bad though. Here everything has to be precisely calculated to ensure you take little to no damage, especially if you plan on making a serious run on the boss later. You can't just rush in, take the hits to make a play, and then pop a stim-pack back to full health. This adds a distinctive twist on how you approach battles. Well, unless you sacrifice one of them permanently! In order to heal a character, you have to sacrifice a Daughter of equal or greater level to heal up fully. That’s right, no healing for your Daughters of any kind. This brings me to another very interesting aspect of Othercide: there’s no healing. This detail adds options and choices, mixing up the flow of basic combat. That's not generally something you want to do, but given the situation, you may actually benefit from using all 100AP so that an adversary doesn’t get a killer attack off. However, if you use even 1 AP over 50, then you go to the back of the line - dead last in the turn order. Usually you can move a little and get a single attack off with 50 AP. If you use 50 AP or less, you’ll move to the midpoint on the timeline at the end of your turn, thus positioning you to act again sooner. Starting with 100, you can move and act in any order you wish. Part of what makes Othercide unique, though, is the way in which it handles your action points (AP). While I would have liked to have seen more variety in mission types, there really is plenty else going on to make up for it.Ī timeline along the bottom of the screen displays turn order and any special attacks that are coming up are clearly marked. Rescue missions are especially rare, as successfully completing them will reward you with a token of resurrection to bring back a fallen Daughter. Missions range from standard Hunts to Rescue and Survival. You can mix and match whichever grouping you like (I preferred two Soulslinger’s and a Blademaster most of the time).
Starting classes consist of Shieldbearer (a high-health tank class), Blademaster (melee damage), and Soulslinger (your ranged attacker). Teams are comprised of 2-4 Daughters, depending on the mission type. If you’ve played anything like XCOM before then you’ll feel right at home in Othercide. This is the core of the roguelike mechanic at play. Each death finds them reborn again, in an eternal loop, ready to take up arms and continue the fight once more. The Red Mother is the greatest warrior who ever lived, and her Daughters are echoes of her born to beat back the invading evil, but never truly die. The story of Othercide is a bit convoluted, akin to something like the Souls series, where you’re not entirely sure what’s going on, but if you follow close enough you won't be left completely in the dark. With ever-increasing depth and layers of intricate systems, each new run will see you closer and closer to your final goal - the ending of suffering and death! In a first-of-its-kind, as far as I’m aware, developer Lightbulb Crew has successfully blended a complex turn-based strategy game with layers and layers of roguelike progression. In this brooding world of tactics, you’ll not only need to level-up and strengthen your army of Daughters, but sacrifice them as well for the greater good. With a bold visual style of only black, white, and reds, Othercide achieves a dark and sinister feel with minimal game assets required. It’s time once again to save humanity, and this time you’ll be redeeming it by way of the immortal Daughters of the Red Mother. By Jacob James, posted on 01 August 2020 / 2,465 Views
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