Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree is Hades but Japanese

During the summer competition festival, Banda NAMCO Revealed a new Roguelike game called Towa and the guardian of the sacred tree. While it’s hard to tell what gameplay is, the huge hit Roguelike game that looks like Supergiant Havesbut with oriental aesthetics.

It turns out to be right. I had a chance to check out a 15-minute playable demo Towa and the guardian of the sacred tree. I’m excited about the game, but cautiously optimistic.

Even though the game seems to have drawn too much inspiration from it Havesthere are some gaming features that make it stand out. For beginners, you actually play two roles at a time called Tsurugi and Kagura, respectively, Sword and Staff, Japanese.

You have about eight or nine characters to choose from. During the game, I chose to bring a fish guy named Nishiki and a female character origami because her origami hat was cool. I really didn’t have a chance to check what they did, so I just disappeared and I liked their character design the most.

exist organicYou can launch attacks from both characters, and for each attack, the character’s blades become more blunt. This is why you keep switching between characters to give the blade time to charge. This is a mechanic called Quick Draw, which is an interesting dynamic that prevents the gameplay from becoming too dated.

According to the typical Roguellike game, you have to go through a room full of monsters to reach the boss. After cleaning up the room, you will receive rewards for electricity, such as increasing the key hit rate of Tsurugi or increasing the invincible window of Kagura Guards. There are all kinds of electricity, so each run is always a little different, which adds a lot of replayability.

You’re trying NAMCO It was also mentioned that the game will have an online co-op so that you and your friends can play Tsurugi and Kagura respectively. This will certainly help Towa and the guardian of the sacred tree Stand out, especially Haves.

I am indeed exploring oriental aesthetics. Capcom Discover successful through excellent Kunitsu Gami: Goddess’s Roadso it makes sense for another Japanese studio to take the route.

I do think that from the games I play, the game is too easy. I found that quick spam made me hit the enemy, effectively landing behind them and avoiding most of the attacks. I’m not sure if this is because of the character I chose, but I didn’t have any issues cleaning each room.

Even the first two bosses are not that difficult when I use the same exact strategy. The last boss, a dragon named Ensa, I found it a little difficult because it did quite a bit of damage and around the midpoint I had to stop and slow down so I wasn’t that reckless. After defeating the Dragon, I congratulated myself, because Bande said I was only the sixth man and did not die in the whole demonstration.

I’d love to know the rest Towa and the guardian of the sacred tree fare. It has some promising signs that it will stand Haves There are others Haves– likes, but time will tell if those differentiators are enough for hours of gameplay.

Towa and the guardian of the sacred tree Released on September 19 for PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S.