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Arisen Force: HeroTest is a action, action rpg and pixel graphics game
developed and published by Lemport.
Released on October 22nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 351 reviews of which 300 were positive and 51 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 10.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-6100
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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This game, while a bit buggy and janky, is SOLID. It's a brawler or action-RPG with enjoyable action combat, special skills, RPG stats and mechanics, different equipment types, and a variety of characters to utilize. Once you've recruited characters you can add them to your party, swap between them on the fly mid-combo and mid-combat, as well as have a couple of characters in reserve should one (or more) of your active party be knocked unconscious. The combat is simple but has a decent level of complexity to it - you have a standard 3-attack normal combo that varies with weapon type, charge attacks that can be added onto a combo with different levels and effects of charge, jumping attacks, sprint attacks, as well as a variety of skills that are generally weapon-dependent. Each character also has specific talents that unlock at preset levels that change attack types, enhance particular skill types, and so on. There's a decent variety of characters as well - before the the 1.1.11 patch there were 5 accessible characters and 2 hidden ones. With the patch they've added even more! Characters vary from historical to mythical, with such examples being Catherine the Great, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and so on. They each have a small prologue introducing them, allowing you to get used to them and level them up a bit, before they join the party and can be used to your liking. While each character may have a starting weapon and perhaps talents and attributes suited to a particular weapon type, you can equip any weapon type on any character and adjust the skills to match. There are skill trees you can unlock but they aren't terribly exciting - they're all percent increases to particular stats like magic damage and defense. They do serve to make your characters more powerful, but in a 'numbers go up' way. Skills are really the way you customize particular characters, and some of them are particularly powerful and useful - always be on the lookout for new ones! They can also be invested with skill points to increase their potency. Equipment functions on a tiered color system, and rarer pieces of equipment have sockets that can be fitted with gems / runes that increase physical attack, defense, and so on. It's not particularly deep but it doesn't need to be - it sticks with the game's mechanical theme of making your numbers bigger. My complaint here is that strengthening weapons requires consumable items that only have a % chance to be successful. It feels a little too much like a gacha game crafting system for my liking. The character portrait art is well done, if a bit generic. Yes, I like the female character designs. No, I don't care if that rustles your jimmies. Where the game truly shines visually is the crunchy pixel-like art - the animations are excellent, character expressions are clearly visible and they even added in some jiggle physics, which was a nice detail. Monster designs are what you'd expect from a fantastical setting - snakemen, ratmen, jiggly slime girls, giant spiders, dual-wielding mantis-like creatures, myconids, so on. They aren't original but the art and animations are excellently done for each of them. A few closing thoughts: The controls have been responsive on an Xbox 360 controller and didn't require any remapping or adjustments for me personally. Combat is flashy enough to be visually appealing but without cluttering up your view or making it difficult to understand what's happening on screen. You should expect some grinding to level up new characters and perhaps gain some cash to buy the best health potions available (the normal and intermediate ones are really weak, only healing 15 and 30% of your health on consumption). Bravo, Arisen Force: HeroTest is a great entry into the brawler / action RPG genre that focuses on solid gameplay, an appealing visual style and provides lots of characters to utilize.
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I was very put off by this game due to the relatively slow paced demo and the cheap puppet animation, but after giving it a chance, it's actually a pretty good game. You play a protagonist and summon heroes from history in a dungeon crawler setting. Most levels are just combat rooms with different colored keys needed to progress, but as you get higher more gameplay modes are introduced. Combat is responsive with dodge and/or guard cancels at basically any point of an animation. The moveset system is pretty unique because every character starts with their own favorite weapon and moves, but you can also find moves in levels to change their playstyle. Some characters like Arthur have passives that basically force them to use one weapon, so you might not get as much mileage out of this as you think. After unlocking two characters, you can tag them out at any point of an attack like the Warriors Orochi games. This is where the game really opens up, as the combat becomes a lot faster and deeper. After the first few levels, you'll unlock facilities that let you buy and sell things and upgrade your weapons. The start of the game is rough at the start due to the weird "gacha" system where you can't choose what character you want to start with and are stuck with whatever it chooses for you. There are only six characters in the game currently, so after about four hours of gameplay you should have them all. Still, I've never felt this is a good system at any point, especially because the recruiting levels remove your team entirely. As a result, this game is really rough at the beginning but becomes quite fun after the initial few hours. I have to admit the marketing about the game having pixel art is a bit deceiving because everything is animated with skeletal/puppet animation, and it honestly looks really bad. This style of animation works fine for other genres, but I often feel that action games using puppet animation suffer from a lack of impact when you attack something. If you can look past the cheap animation, this is a really solid game for $10, and the developers are even promising free content.
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ArisenForce HeroTest is essentially a looter RPG that is very light on story and has a heavy focus on combat at its price point. Gameplay You can bring 3 party members at a time with the option to switch out for two more reserve members when you're not in combat. Each character has a varied set of traits that will unlock as you level (Max level is 60) and can equip any of the different weapons in the game. Each weapon has a specific playstyle and special skills can be found in the game which can enhance your playstyle. A lot of the skills can be chained together in a combo, which makes combat more fluid. However, due to its price point there is still a lot of jank in the game. For a 1.0 game, there's quite a few, but not enough for it to ruin your gameplay. For example, there's an unlockable character's equipment image is a staff, listed in Chinese, but described as a helmet. Additionally, there are times you're in the hub and after trying to exit the shopkeeper's store, it'll show you as trying to talk to them again, despite being far away from them and trying to exit the store. Gameplay wise, you'll be spending at least 20+ hours. Since the game has a ARPG looter style loot system, a lot of useless loot will be dropped, so you'll be spending a lot of time farming for the best loot if you decide on that route. However, you don't necessarily need it as the game's skill tree and weapons that drop in each stage may be enough for you to complete the game easily. There's an endgame too; which you can use one of the in-game currency to continue farming end game stages. (Like Diablo or maps in Path of Exile). However, there's not much variety currently and you'll be farming the same four stages constantly. Additionally, you can upgrade gear and install stat bonuses onto equipment slots to make your characters even beefier. You'll be doing loads of damage in no time, which can make the game incredibly easy. Story It's almost nonexistent, but it's not a bad thing, especially if you're looking for a quick game to play where you jump right into the combat. The backstory is described in the stage select of each stage. For whatever reason, you're there to climb a tower to defeat the Demon Lord. Again, there's backstory, but not enough for you to care. The translation from Chinese to English is passable, but I didn't really bother reading much at all. The story is practically negligible. Graphics I can describe it as a lower end version of Octopath. These Chinese companies have released 2DHD style games and it's neat. Characters move like they're in a cheap mobile game, but again, for the price you pay for this game, you're getting a lot of bang for the buck. Steam Deck performance You'll be playing the game with no issues at all, except for one stage that lowers the FPS a little. It's not enough for it to be game breaking, but definitely noticeable. Overall Despite its graphical issues and feeling incomplete at times (the dev is adding features), the combat carries this game quite well. They're also releasing two more games with similar style of gameplay soon, so look forward to those if you're itching for more ARPG looting action. Overall, the game is definitely a 7/10 with the negligible story and glitches being the reason for point deductions, but the action carrying the game.
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This is a great little beatemup / ARPG. It's got the graphical style of some of these neo retro RPGs but the squad based beat em up gameplay of something like Dragon's Crown. For the price it seems like a lot of content too. It could use some QoL improvements but overall if you enjoy beat em ups and dungeon crawling it's a safe bet. Looking forward to their next release.
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I think I might have enjoyed this more than most. Gameplay is fun and unique. The game has is visually pleasing given it's style. The flow of the game is satisfying and direct. While the story is lacking/mostly absent, I see this as a bonus. It is nice to be able to PLAY a game instead of just watching cut-scenes. I do think the environments are a bit limited, but I find this acceptable. Bosses are interesting and fairly unique, but while regular enemies have a good variety visually, they mostly all function the same and are disappointing. The music is fitting, but not does not make much of an impression. Most of the sound effects range from fitting to satisfying, but the character voices are a chore to hear (easily corrected by muting in audio options) and the single most unforgivable drawback to this game is the sound of opening a colored gate. This sound of opening the gates was almost bad enough for me to put the game down. There is some unnecessary RNG moments (example being the wheel where you unlock your next ally or the drops from the limited gold chests). I would harp on this more, but any reasonable player will just utilize the save feature to bypass this. I do feel that there are many great options in terms of skills. Buffing skills seem wholly pointless as the duration of these spells is miserable. The summoning and attacking spells feel fantastic and exciting and the healing spells are serviceable. I can't speak heavily on the quick swap/just action feature as I mostly ignored it. This looked cool and is likely very useful and powerful if employed properly, but the function did not work well for me and usually caused issues in combat for me. Again, I think this feature is likely fine and rewarding, but I just found it better to control my primary character and leave the npcs to their own business. However, equipment is terribly boring. Outside of increasing the general item level and stats by replacing items there is no gearing options. There are no unique effects for equipment (to my knowledge) and no thought in replacing equipment beyond who gets the initial upgrade when dropped. This was definitively the most lacking element of the game for me. I have completed what appears to be the normal story and what I believe to be majority of the content. To my knowledge I am missing two secret bosses and some secret characters. I do like this game and I think with additional refinement it could reach beyond the satisfying niche game it is now. First playthrough is just below 20 hours, but I certainly took my time progressing. It seems the dev is quite involved and eager to continue improving this game. Some changes/features I would love to see include: A new sound effect for opening colored gates. (This may come off as a joke, but I am beyond serious) More equipment options for same power level items. Example: Unique effects, differing stats to support more build options. Increase the duration of buffs applied by skills. The duration is currently alarmingly short and makes it difficult to make use of the effect. Less significant, but additional ways to obtain weapons. My primary character struggled to find any two handed sword. When I finally replaced my weapon it has literally almost 10x as much attack power. Not relevant to the initial playthrough, I would love to see more post game content and additional challenges. I definitely would like a reason to play more as I did really enjoy this game. This is likely beyond the scope of the game, but I think the style and gameplay would be very enjoyable as a multiplayer experience. While not perfect, I absolutely loved this game. If the style is appealing to you I would definitely recommend. I am excited to see not only what else comes to this title, but what other projects the developer releases.
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Arisen Force: HeroTest is currently priced at 10.79€ on Steam.
Arisen Force: HeroTest is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 10.79€ on Steam.
Arisen Force: HeroTest received 300 positive votes out of a total of 351 achieving a rating of 7.94.
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Arisen Force: HeroTest was developed and published by Lemport.
Arisen Force: HeroTest is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Arisen Force: HeroTest is not playable on MacOS.
Arisen Force: HeroTest is not playable on Linux.
Arisen Force: HeroTest is a single-player game.
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Arisen Force: HeroTest does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Arisen Force: HeroTest does not support Steam Remote Play.
Arisen Force: HeroTest does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
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