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Lunacid Review

  Newest of the Fallen, take up your sword and fight From the creator of Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion, Lunacid is a dungeon crawler very deliberately evoking King's Field and Shadow Tower. With a close to identical combat system, PSX style graphics, a dark moody atmosphere reminiscent of Fromsoftware games and an experience focused around exploration and discovery. It's also one of my new favourite games of all time, but more on that in a moment. Just know that I recommend this game as enthusiastically as I could ever recommend a game. And if you wish to have the best possible experience untainted. Stop reading here, and play it yourself, I guarantee you won't regret it, no matter who you are. Since Lunacid is such an easy game to recommend, for that reason I will keep detailed analysis of it's systems and design light. It takes direct and visible influence from a multitude of games, not just King's Field but even La-Mulana or Morrowind. But the thing that makes i...