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You’ll find your free time consumed by practicing biomes and reading everything you can about optimal builds and strategies. I don’t mean it will actually destroy you, in that it won’t send you into an inescapable downward spiral that causes your sanity to slip away. That was how severely addicted I was to the game’s brutal loop of try, die, and try again: I had to take extreme precautions to force myself to stop.ĭead Cells is one of those games that, when it runs up against the right combination of stubbornness, self-delusion, and neurotic obsessiveness, will ruin your life. I even archived the game on my Nintendo Switch, convinced I would never touch it again. After clearing the Rise of the Giant late last year in what can only be described as an act of self-flagellation, I wanted to give up on Dead Cells for good. That may be why I was sucked in so hard by The Bad Seed. It introduced two new bosses, but it also added secret endings to the game only achievable by playing it on its highest, most inaccessible difficulty level. Dead Cells’ first DLC, Rise of the Giant, was free, but it was designed for the hardcore crowd only. That is likely due to it being a paid expansion. The new biomes are easily reached through the introduction area, and their difficulty falls neatly into the early first third of the game instead of the latter half, where it’s expected you’ll be more powered up and versatile. There’s new, atmospheric background tunes and more complex level design that makes exploring both areas a fun puzzle to solve, when you’re not avoiding little murderous mushroom men and blow gun-wielding minions.Īs an expansion to one of arguably the hardest games of the last few years, the Bad Seed is also surprisingly accessible. The new biomes also happen to be the most intricately designed of the game’s various levels. That includes the first-ever two-handed Dead Cells weapon, a giant organic scythe obtained by besting a powerful new foe. The Bad Seed expansion is Dead Cells’ first paid DLC, and it costs just $4.99
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The Bad Seed’s theme is plant and insect-based horrors, and the new Dilapidated Arboretum and Swamp biomes deliver in full with all manner of repulsive, mushroom and tick creatures to best with an array of new weapons. The good news is that the game’s spirit is indeed intact, although surprisingly with a little more magic than misery.
I wanted to see the results of that choice, and whether Evil Empire could capture the magic (and the misery) of throwing yourself into the interactive meat grinder that is Dead Cells.
It’s the second-ever add on, but it’s the first by new studio Evil Empire, a spinoff from the game’s original creator Motion Twin formed last year that now has free reign to steer the game in whatever direction it pleases.
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The expansion, the first paid update for the indie roguelike at $4.99, adds a few new areas that fork off the main path of the game’s linear series of procedurally generated levels. I was only a few minutes into Dead Cells’ new The Bad Seed expansion before I knew I was hooked all over again.
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