A slow pace and progressive scaling is what you will mostly find in your adventure from the moment you begin to play, your character progression is slow. But the grind in Guardians of Ember only gets harder and dreadful.
Normally when you play a RPG, gaining levels goes quick, and before you know it you are already nearing the end game and then there is little to work for. Guardians of Ember is slower paced than what you might be used to in most RPGs. Character progression is very essential, and gives actual purpose to reach the ‘end zone’. Path of Exile does this extremely well, and is the one game in recent years that has continuously kept pulling me back in for a few months at a time. Even though usually the equipment is the main reasons to keep on playing, you can only have so much fun hunting gear before you start to wonder whether there is more to the game. A hack and slash game especially should give you some purpose behind your actions, something meaningful to play for. The game definitely had some interesting features, and the simple (yet enjoyable) gameplay from hack and slash RPGs, but the game felt both lacking in depth and actual meaning. I wouldn’t say I was disappointed when I first tried Guardians of Ember. With the return of a Player versus Player mode and a Horde Battle mode, I really had to give the game another peek. But early access didn’t give me the excitement I had hoped for. Even though it is somewhat of a niche genre, there has only been one game in recent years that has been successful at this, and Guardians of Ember looked like it would bring back that oldschool ARPG style. Earlier this year when Guardians of Ember went into early access, I jumped into the game in the hopes to find something new and fresh that would make me enjoy hack and slash games more.
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