DOLMEN GAME SOFTWARE
The hits don’t have the weightiness that make the best ARPGs stand out, and parrying doesn’t send that same rush of pleasure chemicals to my brain as From Software titles, but it does have a few mechanics that at least add a twist to the formula.įor one, it has guns. Like many Soulslikes, combat is at the heart of Dolmen. After an accident on a planet that contains a huge deposit of dolmen, it’s up to you to collect the dolmen and kill any creatures that could pose a risk. The crystals have the ability to interact with other dimensions, so naturally, corporations are willing to spend any amount of money - or human lives - to be the first to harness the power. And thanks to the discovery of a crystal known as dolmen, space travel is on the brink of changing forever. It takes place in a far-future science fiction setting where humans have managed to uproot themselves and colonize other planets. I hate to be yet another reviewer comparing a game to Dark Souls - or the more recent Elden Ring - but in a sea of ‘Soulslikes,’ this is bound to be lost to the waves.ĭolmen is an action-RPG (ARPG) from the team at Massive Work Studio. Unlike its name though, Dolmen doesn’t stand out at all. I chuckled every time the title was referenced in the game. It conjures up images of an alien made of juice like some terrible mascot from a bygone era. There’s really not much else to say here and I’ll swiftly move on.Dolmen is simultaneously the best and worst name for a game this year. This makes it easy to lose your way and miss paths that lead to the next part of your progression through the story. The environment in Dolmen is very bland for the most part and everything tends to blend into each other.
That’s where the good things end in this section, unfortunately.
Your character, close up, looks fantastic with some great detail to his design. It’s not very rare to catch these guys moonwalk shuffling to wherever they need to be on their patrol path - hilarious but not in itself a terrible thing. It’s when you get to the fire shooting humanoid enemies that you start to notice some weirdness in Dolmen. The bugs you initially encounter are fairly generic and I don’t have much of a gripe with them. More frustration.īefore moving on to the next section, I wanted to briefly touch on enemy design and mechanics.
DOLMEN GAME HOW TO
However, it is not all that simple to figure out how to equip your newly crafted weapons. On the topic of crafting, it’s very easy to craft new gear in Dolmen. While this is great for farming crafting materials, it does nothing for story progression and adds to the general feeling of frustration.
At times I found myself going through a huge chunk of story, going around and exploring different paths in front of me and inexplicably landing up in an area I had already been, with the same enemies I killed having respawned to engage in more of the same combat. On the opposite end of that spectrum, once you learn to keep your distance and mostly engage from distance, the fights In Dolmen become super easy - to the point of boredom at times.Įxploration can also be an issue in Dolmen. I felt like ripping my hair out of my already receding hairline. I cannot and will not, out of embarrassment, tell you how long I was stuck on the first level of this game. On the first playthrough, the game feels very difficult and the enemies can very quickly mob and overpower you if you try to hack and slash from close up. The combat loop is very frustrating as it feels like just about all enemy types can be downed from a distance - and moving to the side should dodge any projectiles they throw your way. None of us like it and yet we come across it so often, especially when it comes to combat mechanics. The in-game mechanics feel very linear and, though, thankfully not robotic, they do still feel rather clunky and repetitive.Īnd there’s that word: repetitive. Dolmen seems and feels very one dimensional.
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