The loot is especially important, as this is the primary element that controls your hero’s stats. Not only do foes often drop crafting ingredients (more on that later), but they also drop important spawn cards and loot for you to kit out the hero with. More importantly, it’s in your best interests to get the hero through as many battles as you reasonably can, because each fight offers up critical resources for success. You must put down the spider nests somewhere, however, because each new element you add to the loop fills up the boss gauge a little bit more, and once that’s full, you’re given a chance to take your shot at the current chapter’s boss. For instance, if you put too many spiders’ nests in a row and aren’t properly geared for that gauntlet, the hero will likely become seriously wounded or be killed. The types and amounts of enemies you fight on the loop, then, is entirely dependent upon your strategy, and this lends Loop Hero an interesting depth given that where you put the enemies is just as important as which ones you spawn. If you make it too hard, however, he’ll never even make it that far. You can make it easy on him if you want to, but then he’ll get bodied by the boss at the end of the expedition. Your hero simply walks forward on the loop and automatically fights anything that gets in his way, so it’s up to you to put things in his way that will make him stronger. Rather, you flip the game between paused and active states, while making little changes along the way in a sort of 'inverted' take on the tower defense genre. The key thing here, however, is that you don’t manually control your hero at all. Each time you set out on a new Expedition, your hero will spawn on a short, freshly generated path that takes only a couple minutes to fully traverse. In case you haven’t inferred it from the title, Loop Hero is all about repetition. There’s just enough dry humor here to keep things from getting too serious, though you likely won’t be spending too much of your time focusing on the story. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Īdmittedly, it feels like the story is simply here to provide justification for the endless looping design of the gameplay, but we rather enjoyed the subtle humor that permeates through all the dialogue and descriptions. Luckily, your hero has the unique ability to cause things to stop fading, so you set out on a quest to slay the cosmic foes that ruined everything and hopefully find some way to bring it all back again. The world is now a formless void filled with bits and pieces of what used to be, and even the hero’s memories of it have been eaten away, too. Loop Hero puts you in the role of a nameless hero who’s charged with bringing the world back after it was destabilized and eradicated by a mysterious lich. Loop Hero is the ultimate example of this Devolver Digital’s latest release is an RPG that’s focused on… walking in circles.
We’re rarely focused on the repetition, however, because it’s the new things that happen on each new trip ‘around the loop’ that makes it so interesting. For example, every Mario 2D platformer ultimately is nothing more than having the famed plumber jump over obstacles and run to the right. When you get right down to it, almost every game consists of a very simple loop.
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