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Valor Mortis is more Dishonored than Dark Souls, but if anyone can pull off a hard-as-nails hybrid, it's the Ghostrunner devs
Tearing your bones apart.
Maybe it's in the spells you can bind to your right hand, maybe it's in the dashing, jumping, and blade-plunging you can do that makes you feel more acrobatic than any Hunter or Chosen Undead in From's catalogue, but Valor Mortis, for my money, is a game that rewards speed and aggression more than holding up a shield and 'rolling around the big guy'. | Image credit: One More Level An eruption of Cronenberg body horror and some vague dialogue about 'power' later, General Lothaire - or The Eagle Bearer, to use his military moniker - turned into a grafted beast akin to Elden Ring's Godrick: multiple arms, all wielding flintlocks, a huge flagstaff he could bonk you across the arena with, and the ability to recall dead souls from the battlefield to complicate matters. But that desire - that need- to overcome this boss is emblematic of how Soulslike sickos will feel about this game when playing at home: it's compelling, gratifying, and it will get its hooks into your brain and make you think 'OK, I'm not putting this pad down until I've beaten this monster.'
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