Sandbox mode gives you more freedom and, while it takes effort, there’s a certain satisfaction in sitting back and just taking in the screams. In fact, story mode is one of the highlights of the game some of the humour is hit-and-miss but if you’re not chuckling every now and then you might want to check your pulse. I’m not talking about the way Hell Architect casts you as a lesser demon, looking to prove your worth to the big boss. Unfortunately, that initial joy diminishes when you realise you’re not really the one in charge. And, as you watch them work you’ll have a grin a mile wide, doubly so if you got a kick out of hurling fairies into your Dungeon Keeper 2 torture chamber. Yes, the people you’re tasked with tormenting build the machines you’re going to use on them.
#HELL ARCHITECT REVIEW UPGRADE#
Their suffering is your bread and butter and when you’re not shoving them into torture machines (this is the fire and brimstone view of hell), they’re harvesting the materials you need to construct and upgrade those machines, then setting about building them. Hell Architect puts you in charge of designing a circle of Hell, figuring out the best ways to torture the sinners who drip into your domain. Unfortunately, in Hell Architect’s case, the people in question are needy, clueless idiots. One play through of the story was enough for me though.“Hell is other people,” the saying goes. Once you have mastered the basics and completed the story and scenarios, you’ll then be able to play Architect mode which will give players more freedom to create their own style of hell. The voice acting throughout the tutorial and scenarios adds even more colour to the game. When they expire, unseen choirs sing the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah. For example, if you neglect to look after the needs of one of your sinners, they can pass on to Limbo. The sound design in Hell Architect is simple and filled with humour. Encountering new sinners and torture devices did help to maintain momentum for each new scenario level. The chuckle-worthy devilish characters, quirky inquisitive music, and challenges kept it interesting once the initial set up is complete in each scenario. There is still the set core group of resources required for the sinners and they need the same requirements to maintain happiness. Some aspects of initial set up for each level can be grindy and repetitive at times, and with it being quite linear, I don’t see much variation in gameplay from player to player other than different decorations. I found the gameplay easy to pick up during the tutorial stages.
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If you are the kind of gamer that must play the paragon, or struggles to have a sense of humour about macabre, I highly recommend checking out the prologue demo before you purchase the full game. For gamers who may be bothered by the cartoon nudity and bloodsplatters, these options can toggled off in the settings. The sounds were a little over the top, though once you moved them away and out of focus, they got on with what they had to do and I could concentrate on the other tasks at hand. Even torturing horrible historical figures couldn’t bring me around to enjoying the core mechanic. While the torture is coated in cute animations and helpings of humour, I couldn’t find that aspect of the game fun. Gaining suffering via the various types of torture devices was an unfortunate but necessary mechanism that was just unpleasant to witness. Similar to the mechanism of collecting screams in the film Monster’s Inc., your second job is to collect suffering from the sinners to create special buildings and torture devices. Beds, food production, water processing, and toilets are all required to keep your sinners busy working for you and keep them as happy as can be, given the circumstances they’re in. Inspired by games like Dungeon Keeper and Oxygen Not Included, your first job is to gather resources such as dirt, coal and metal, and build items to care for your sinners (ie labour force). Developed by Woodlands Games and published by Leonardo Interactive, Hell Architect lets you take on the roll of hell manager where you can design your own little slice of hell. Hell Architect brings dark humour and netherworld themes to traditional colony / base builder simulation gameplay.
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