Salt and Sanctuary (2d Dark Soulsesque) - PS4/Vita/PC

That looks great, any word on a release date?

Releases tomorrow

Review: Salt and Sanctuary

One review I found (8.5)

Dansgaming is streaming it now on twitch. Looks fun. Will buy.

I dont post often (ever), but I wanted to add my 2cp to bump the tread because I'm in love with this game. I'm 4 hours into this and find it a perfect blend of metroidvania and a souls game. If you are a souls fan its a must buy. There's a heavy focus on timing attacks and learning patterns, very tight controls, tons of armor / weapons with upgrading, parry mechanic, stat scaling, magic, consumables, etc. Pretty much all the "souls" type mechanics but in a 2d side scroller. Combat is very satisfying. I love the nice wet crack and blood spray when you catch a skull with the end of your morning star. There are lots of different weapon types with different ranges and movesets. Also has a decent variety of "classes" with different talent trees to go down, daggers, katana, swords, greatswords, maces, hammers, magic, guns, bows, etc. 9/10 for me so far.

Dayum. Guess i'm gonna download this bitch then, it looks like a lot of fun

It is absolutely worth it considering the price.

Ditto the above on movesets. Every weapon I have tried so far (not far into the game at all) have had different combos and move sets. You can also parry and initiate combos from that.

Started with a mage, though it works like any Souls game where you can start a class to get the base skills and decide to go in a completely different direction.

However....

Obliterated!

You have lost salt forever....

I lose far more souls/salt in this than in a regular Souls game. Black knights are back in full force. You really do need to stop playing it like a platformer and consider it a souls game and take it slow.

Bought this just now, but holding off until I at the very least beat Scholar of the First Sin. I say at the very least because I'm not sure I wanna spend too much time on the DLC with this in queue and Dark Souls 3 next month.

Regardless, the quality if not the quantity of hype here has me excited to give it a go.

I suck ass at this game. DaS/DeS/Bloodborne are pretty god damn easy for me but being a 2D platformer style game just annihilates me lol

It's a lot of fun though!

Started it last night. Lot of fun, but the village area is kicking my ass. I haven't really taught myself to block and roll yet, though.

I was making the mistake of trying to 1v1 those 'black knight' dudes that are there. Parry/Riposte does a whopping 13 damage to them, after like 15 i just moved on lol

Ended up grinding like 10 levels at the beginning, which made that village a lot smoother.. 1 shot the boss there $$

Needless_sl said:

I was making the mistake of trying to 1v1 those 'black knight' dudes that are there. Parry/Riposte does a whopping 13 damage to them, after like 15 i just moved on lol

Ended up grinding like 10 levels at the beginning, which made that village a lot smoother.. 1 shot the boss there $$

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Those black knights appear to be non-respawnig, btw. I killed the first one when I figured out that he could cross zone lines, so I let him follow me back into the cave and I killed him with aerial hit and runs from the platform above.

The second one I encountered was a lot easier - just abused the nearby staircase. Haven't beaten one legitimately yet, though

Parry then I instagib with daggers is good times.

How the fuck is this not on the Vita yet....