Review Iratus: Lord of the Dead - When evil and villains always win

Iratus: Lord of the Dead can be seen as a 'reverse' version of Darkest Dungeon, with a lot of similar gameplay, but following a different story. Instead of saving the world, you will play the role of a fellow teacher who calls a spiritually ill spirit, with the goal of destroying all living objects that he encounters.

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Extremely deep gameplay

The main character in the game is called Iratus, a spirit-called teacher who accidentally wakes up after his residence is destroyed by grave robbers. Iratus is a crazy, crazy, obsessive and very autistic father, all his friends and acquaintances are heaps of corpses or monsters created from the catacombs. On one beautiful day after the resurrection, Iratus got bored of living underground and decided to go on an invasion to take over the kingdom of the living, so you can consider yourself on the evil side and go It is also true to destroy good.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a Rogue-like style game, players will play the role of Iratus create and control his soldiers to start fighting from the deepest mine rising to find the sun, before destruction. Human civilization exists above. The game has a total of 5 sequential dungeons and you will slowly climb, slaughtering the crowd of humanity in the way before making yourself a king. In fact, the plot of Iratus: Lord of the Dead is not very good, because most of the time we only see Iratus autistic monologue alone, there is very little the appearance of other characters.

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Following the turn-based strategy style, Iratus: Lord of the Dead uses a familiar 4-person squad almost identical to the Darkest Dungeon. The characters will be divided into 2 distinct lines, with the first two positions being melee or parry, while the backline is ranged or supported. Each soldier unit in the game will have a total of 6 skills, of which 1 is the ultimate move. There are up to 18 types of soldiers that you can unlock during the game, each unit will play a special game from: blocking, support, gunner and assassin . turning tactical elements in Iratus: Lord of the Dead is extremely diverse.

There are 3 types of damage in Iratus: Lord of the Dead is physical, magical and spiritual. Because your army is full of dead or dead monsters, they have no fear or dismay like Darkest Dungeon, so the spirit only affects opponents as humans. You can kill the enemy by hitting all blood normally or using mental influence skills, when the spirit bar of the target runs out, it falls into a panic state and can collapse immediately if continue to be attacked.

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Because of the appearance of up to 3 types of damage, building a squad in Iratus: Lord of the Dead is very complicated, you have to calculate how to draw your monsters to the right enemy. There are several units in Iratus: Lord of the Dead is particularly strong in terms of physical or mental damage, similarly the enemy will be weak on any type of damage. Using a Banshee to drive dwarves or vampires crazy to bite the magician is just one of dozens of constructions in the game, no concept of the strongest squad, depending on how the player improvised.

Iratus can also assist his troops with external magic, with two additional resources, Wrath and Mana. Wrath lets the enemy use their ultimate and Mana allows Iratus to cast spells, the difference here is that you can only cast spells once per turn, and Wrath can use 4 times for 4 units. Furthermore, Wrath will rise when Iratus's troops attack or are hit, while Mana can only heal by special means.

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Extremely difficult but also very attractive

As said, Iratus: Lord of the Dead is an extremely hardcore game, the first is that any unit that dies in battle will disappear forever, followed by the game almost no normal recovery characters. , because healing skills are all about hitting or sacrificing something to use. Because of this, the game is extremely difficult, you must constantly change the squad to give the injured soldiers time to rest, while still having to secure resources.

Another thing is that initially players can only use normal soldiers, if you want to unlock something better, you need to complete very strict conditions. This makes the battle difficult even more difficult, because you do not have the strength to duel with the enemy, it is imperative to rotate the formation and calculate for the most accurate.

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But if you are familiar with the mechanics of the game, you will be really attracted to it because Iratus: Lord of the Dead is like playing chess, the enemy will show that and you have to look among your pieces. Where will be the most suitable solution? The feeling of using a standard formation with the frontline tanker, controlling the enemies as you like and enabling the gunner to destroy them all, because you almost have to use the entire brain cell for each battle. .

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Moreover Iratus: Lord of the Dead also has 4 levels of difficulty, even in the easiest one, we feel everything is very barbaric already. Because the harder it gets later, the enemies are more favored by allowing 2 or 3 attacks at the start. Training in the game is also difficult, so each unit will literally mean precious as gold because it is almost impossible to replace them at a later stage.

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Although there are still some things that are not really reasonable, such as not being able to undress in the soldiers, the game time is quite small and the plot is superficial . but Iratus: Lord of the Dead is still Perfect choice for those who love super hardcore strategy, you will definitely smashing tables and chairs with it but then still drowned in this game only.