![]() In Young Souls, an arcade beat 'em up adventure, you take the role of twins Tristan and Jenn as they fight through hordes of Goblins in order to save the professor and stop the mighty Dwarvengobben’s plans to raid the surface. When a brilliant but eccentric professor in cryptozoology is taken prisoner by the intelligent race of subterranean creatures he studies, it is up to his adoptive twin children to save him. For their first outing, 1P2P makes a strong impact and sets up a promising future.We're partnered with Skillshare, where you can do unlimited online courses that'll help you create art, make games, and even help you with school/university! Click here for a free 1 month trial. Equipment can come with ailment prevention, upgrades with better stats and unlockable bonuses, and effects such as poison or bleed.Ĭoming in less than ten hours to beat, I was not blown away, but I was happy to keep going once I got into Young Souls. Players can choose to be light, fast, and quick, or slower, but stronger and less likely to stagger. The armor and weapons offer some variety with play style and builds. Players can choose between damage intake, speed, and automatic parry, along with a few more ways to simplify or exaggerate your time. Can someone else play along that wishes no hassle befall them? Then look no further than to the accessibility options. While the solo experience is easily manageable, playing alongside someone else is equally fun. The game is built with co-op gameplay in mind. I’m neither a stranger nor a hardened veteran of beat-em-ups, which is why I was surprised to find that both beginners and experts can find a decent time with Young Souls. The rest of my enjoyment was found in the combat. “–Both beginners and experts can find a decent time with Young Souls.” Needless to say, Young Souls doesn’t lack variety or content. There are optional dungeons with higher-level suggestions, and boss fights awarding the best weapons. I was really impressed with the dungeon requiring spectral weapons that could one-hit the enemies, but the players also can be one-hit KO’ed. A couple of times, the game gives a dragon to ride and fight alongside. Swinging axes with spike floors are the start, but they ramp up, eventually involving light sources in need of constant attention, and then lasers. Sometimes a challenge room will come and these are easily the simplest I’ve seen in a game. Complimented by the visuals, part of the enjoyment came in discovery. I quickly realized that I wasn’t going through mindlessly generated levels, but a living, breathing world. With all previously mentioned out of the way, Jenn and Tristan work their way through locked doors and set levels, each one different and providing something new to see behind the next door. Players can go to the thrift store to cash in junk for money, a shoe store provides modest drip with some useful stats and enchantments, and the local gym contains mini games which reward players with permanent, small stat boosts. The mayor of the city also knows what is going on, and helps by providing more objectives to find power stones, so the portal can reach deeper down into the Earth. Early on, a few more goblins gifted in making armor, weapons, potions, and accessories become available. He acts as a guide to Jenn and Tristan as they plunge into the depths to defeat the goblin tyranny. This goblin is a friend of the professor, and a rebel against the goblin monarchy. His always-locked door is now open, and the twins enter to find a portal and a goblin. ![]() Rewind a few weeks back, the house is a mess and the professor is missing. Jenn and Tristan wake up to their city in flames, and a giant drill monster proves too much for them. But throughout their journey, they find their reason. They act rashly, and give no concern to themselves. The city’s inhabitants don’t view them kindly. Positive Themes: At first, the twins feel little connection to their guardian. There’s not a lot of description about their religion, but when infighting occurs, Dwarvengobben, the leader, will silence them, followed by their response, “I stand with the Stone ”. Spiritual Themes: The goblins believe in “the Stone”. There’s no blood or gore, and upon defeat enemies will vanish in a poof of black smoke. Violence: The twins use swords, daggers, axes, and other melee weapons to smack goblins around. But there is a profanity filter, putting an asterisk on the letters like GUG does in their content guides. Language: The words in use are h**l, a*s, d**n, g*****n, s**t, and f**k. Players will scour the depths of the earth and find layer after layer of goblin territory, minions, and a variety of resources as they travel downward. Young Souls by 1P2P studio is a side-scrolling beat-em-up about two teenagers rescuing their adoptive guardian from an underground goblin threat.
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