Due to limited defensive options and most attacks not interrupting enemy attack patterns, combat can feel oddly reactive for how aggressive it thinks the player should be. Its the one wrinkle in the combat that acknowledges that the flow of the player’s actions is vital to the feel of combat. In an effort to stop people from mashing the attack button, the developers included an overheating mechanic, where draining Aegis’ stamina leaves her in a vulnerable state that can be alleviated by a timely press of a button, albeit it with some buildup of the Frost debuff. Aegis can utilize some unique types of weapons - fans and bladed wheels - along with some more traditional swords, hammers, and spears, but overall the game lacks a variety of interesting options. Available to the players is the standard assortment of fast, medium, and slow weapons with a mix of light and heavy attacks that do the usual thing of trading in damage for a rapid succession of hits and vice versa. When in combat, Steelrising is merely fine. Story aside, players will spend most of their time either in combat or wandering the streets of Paris. If only the same could be said for the rest of the game. Some enemies will create a fog that can only be cleared by their destruction. Her design also works, an interesting retrofuturist take that highlight Aegis’ mannequin qualities with a sci-fi sleekness not usually associated with the time period. The standout is oddly Aegis, whose performance is appropriately stilted and distant. Those knowledgeable of the actual history may derive a greater pleasure from the interpretations of historical figures, but the average person may have trouble tracking what’s going on. Cutscenes involve many similar looking men in powdered wigs giving a broad overview of the revolution while exploration yields scattered notes and memories that speak of weird alchemy and hidden conspiracies. The first half of the game is centered around gathering together many of the significant figures of the French Revolution before tackling King Louis in the latter. For the relative uniqueness of the setting, Steelrising‘s story is fairly pedestrian.
Having been isolated by her husband and cut off from the events unfolding in the city, Marie Antoinette sends her personal guardian machine, Aegis, to the city to uncover what is going on.
The year is 1789 and instead of having to deal with the earliest days of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI utilizes a mechanical army of automatons to quell sedition and hold the city of Paris under his control. For its first foray into this style of game, Spiders falls into some bad habits that never quite allow for the game to rise to its ambitions, settling into a groove that is at times competent but often uninspiring. Rather than the party-based, narrative-driven stories the company has previously done, Steelrising instead skews closer to From Software’s action RPG titles. There is, however, a new spin to the formula. This continues with Steelrising, an action RPG that re-imagines the French Revolution with an alt-history twist. Its games have run a wide range of science fiction and fantasy, consistently rethinking its style in different contexts. Since its inception, Spiders has never been afraid to switch things up.
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