#SKUL THE HERO SLAYER UPDATE PC#

These are used on upgrades at the starting area that stay forever and massively power you up so that after a few hours of playing you’ll be clearing the first few areas incredibly quickly compared to how long runs can be at the beginning. The permanent upgrades for Skul are tied to the dark crystals you acquire from defeating enemies. This is used to power up your various skulls into greater forms for as long as that run lasts. There is also a bone currency that is only per-run. You use that gold currency at the in-run vendor to boost your current run with various items, spells, and health gains. Green Skulls on the door mean you can find a new skull to use, while red ones adorned with jewels and gold mean you’ll gain a lot of the per-run gold currency at the end. To proceed you must kill every enemy in the room, after that you can grab your reward and choose 1 or 2 doors with different looks. Each room is a mix of light platforming and large enemy counts. Controls aren’t nearly as tight as Dead Cells but few games have reached that level of greatness. Left and Right Trigger as previously mentioned are your two ability attacks which vary greatly with each skull type. Right Bumper is tied to your quintessence which can be a wide variety of spells and abilities that vary from giant hands punching down or small slugs that attach to faces and amplify damage taken. Left Bumper is used to swap between your two current skull types on the fly and using it will unleash a unique ability depending on which skull you’re changing to. B is a dash of which you also have two available in quick succession, and Y is your main interact button. A jumps, and thankfully you have a double jump right from the start. X is your main attack which stun locks most smaller enemies. The control layout is standard for the genre. Let us get more into the way things control, which thankfully is quite well. The variety on these is impressive and I found myself experimenting constantly to push just a bit further with each run. Adding to this build variety are your items of which you can have 9.

Skull types can have a left and right trigger ability which are randomly chosen from a small pool unique to each skull.

My favorites so far were the prisoner from Dead Cells who had all the attacks and sound effects you’d hope for, and a fiery biker clearly inspired by Ghost Rider who uses his flame trail leaving motorcycle to smash through the games many opponents like a madman. Once you start finding Legendary and Unique skull types though things take off. This is where the game shines as it is quite slow to start and the early common and rare skull types are basic to use and a bit boring. To do this you’ll “borrow” the heads of your fellow demons each coming with a unique set of powers and attacks. The main goal to start is reaching the Demon King at the top of his castle and saving him from the “First Hero”, an incredibly powerful human. Your kingdom has been sneak-attacked by the evil humans who are using some sort of crystal to mind-control your once allies. You begin your journey as the cute little skeleton demon, Skul. How does it stand up to the big boys in the genre such as Dead Cells? Pretty darned well! The Very Powerful “Dark Paladin” Skull Getting Ahead

#SKUL THE HERO SLAYER UPDATE PC#

Featuring well animated 2D pixel art, wry humor, and a wealth of different playstyles the game is now out on Game Pass for Console, PC & Cloud. Originally released back on October 21 st of 2021 by developer Southpaw Games, Skul: The Hero Slayer is a fun take on the ever-popular rogue-lite genre.

Skul the hero slayer update