IN THIS GAMEPLAY DEEP DIVE, YOU LEARN MORE ABOUT:
⚔️ Twin Blade Archetype: Master lightning-fast combos and devastating backstabs.
💀 Sabboath Biome: Explore a wretched new biome steeped in misery and challenge.
💥 Build Crafting: Shape your own playstyle with endless customization options.
🎨 Visual Customization: Express yourself with unique looks and styles.
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Hi everyone.
My name is Reza Hedayati and I'm the Design Director at To The Sky, and welcome to this deep-dive video of our game Godbreakers.
Today I'm going to showcase a new archetype, new biome, new enemies, and also some cool item synergies. I just defeated Uhr, which is the boss of the .
Today I'm playing by myself, but you can play it up to four players, so please go check it out.
I picked up some loot that synergizes really well with the build I have today. I'm going to talk more about that later.
In the full game, once you defeated a boss, you can interact with them to progress the questline in the biome. But for today, I'm going to head over to the next Biome.
So, this is our map screen. Here you can see all of our six biomes that we have in Godbreakers. After you defeat a boss, you will be presented with this map and you can choose where to go and today I feel for misery, pain and suffering. So I'm going to head over to Sabboath. Sabboath's biome is all about pain, misery and suffering, and also wet socks.
The look I have on me now is thanks to the fragments I have equipped on my character. So let's take a look at them. The fragments that I have equipped are focusing on backstab damage, and each time I perform a backstab, I will gain a buff, and enemies will gain a debuff and if they have a debuff on them, they will explode. And this synergize really well with my weapon ability that will do backstab damage.
We are really looking forward to seeing what builds, combinations and synergies you guys will come up with.
Here in this room you will see a new enemy; The Wrecker. He has a powerful slam that can knock down the player. The Retches here they can apply poison. So, I need to be careful how I engage them and how I position myself.
In Godbreakers the combat is like a dance, it is all about the fluidity and responsiveness, and how you move around the enemies, and engage them in a tactical way.
What I just did there was a Godbreak. I absorbed the enemy's power. But more on that a little bit later.
I'm using my mobility to get behind the wrecker to apply debuffs via my backstab attacks, and now that he dies, he creates a big explosion dealing damage to all nearby enemies.
Sometimes the player will find chests in the environment, so make sure to look around. This time I got items that will buff my healing received, but also the rate at which I can Godbreak enemies. Now, I will use the height advantage from the grapple hook to initiate the combat.
Grapple hooks are scattered around the levels and a good way to traverse the environment.
I got hit by poison here. Good thing is we have a cleansing shrine that can cleanse you from poison, but you need to be careful because it also cleanses the enemies.
So I'm going to damage the Spitter here, get him down to low health, and then steal his power. Now that I have Spitter’s ability, I can line up the attack, and stun these two Retches
and leave them in a pool of acid. This is the main feature in Godbreakers: To steal enemies’ power, and use that against them.
One of the goals with Godbreakers was to create the fast paced, fluid, and responsive gameplay where you, as the player, can always cancel your abilities and your attacks. And you do that through the dash mechanic. With a dash, you can always cancel wherever you are in an ability or attack chain. As you can see here in the gameplay, I'm constantly moving around, canceling in my attacks, finding opportunities to steal enemies powers and use that against them.
With the archetype I'm playing today, the Twin Blades, I can quickly move around my enemies and create opportunity and space for myself. With my build, I'm trying to find good opportunities to get backstabs in to buff myself and also debuff the enemy. The Twin Blades is an expert weapon at creating distance, but also closing the gap quickly.
Each enemy in Godbreakers have a unique ability to absorb, but we are leaving some of that up for you to explore.
In this encounter, I want to set off a trap to lure the enemies in to deal damage to them, but also to apply poison.
In Godbreakers, we want to create a sweaty palm experience where you're always sitting on the edge of your seat. Each encounter tests the player's agility, but also responsiveness with the controller, and also the tactical awareness of which enemy to Godbreak next.
The Retch here dropped an item. These items are called Essence. Essences are stackable items that will buff you throughout your run. They also synergize with your fragments. So therefore it's in your best interest to try and figure out what essence would benefit your fragments the best. This will enable you to find the most powerful builds and combinations.
Up next is The Dredger, Sabboath's miniboss: one of many intense battles you will experience in the full version of Godbreakers, releasing later this year on PC and PlayStation 5.
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Thank you for watching and stay tuned for the release date!
Reza
Design Director
