About This Game Grab your trusty sword, strap on a fearsome helmet, and plunge into the chaotic fray of Viking Squad! As a member of this ragtag group you must put a stop to the wildly mischievous Loki and reopen the gates to Valhalla. Work together to unleash massive attacks on foes and expand your arsenal in this three player co-op brawler.Key featuresLocal and Online Co-op.Find new weapons and gear to level up each character.Each playable character has their own signature weapon changing the way they approach combat.Lane based brawling with precise and intense combat system.The Gods guide your voyage: By worshipping each god new opportunities and perils are unveiled.Striking hand-drawn 2d art style, courtesy of Jesse 'The Drawbarian' Turner.Sound by Power Up Audio, Music by A Shell In The Pit. 7aa9394dea Title: Viking SquadGenre: Action, Adventure, IndieDeveloper:Slick Entertainment Inc.Publisher:Slick Entertainment Inc.Release Date: 4 Oct, 2016 Viking Squad Activation Code [serial Number] Looking for a simple fun beat em up in the vein of Castle Crashers with a Viking theme? Then try Viking Squad. Supporting up to three players local and online you plunder loot for your Jarl (that you happened to curse by freeing Loki, good job) and ravage the lands to stop the chaos you started.Mechanically you collect new gear and weapons through levels and plunder loot to buy and level up your stats. In combat you traverse levels moving up and down between four lanes and sliding to dodge enemy attacks at the last second. Each viking has their own speciality and play style with their own special attacks that you can charge which cost rune power. If things get overwhelming you can also unleash an ultimate attack to clear the room.Viking Squad is a great game to introduce people to beat em up games with colorful art direction, great cartoon viking theme, and a folk-rock soundtrack that makes replaying the game a good time. Short and sweet to beat once, but to do everything (achievements) will require multiple playthroughs.. This game is good. DAMN GOOD. Just a refreshing take on the beat em up genre with new ideas, but solid arcade gameplay.Every character has a different play style in this game and the combat depth is decently deep. You'll need more than mashing buttons if you're going to make it to the late game.The gameplay goes as follows.1) Go through a level bashing as many enemies as possible2) Survive and bring back treasure\/loot to upgrade your character stats, and buy gear3) Use money to buy potions and keys for treasure chests (any unspent loot is disgarded)4) Set sail to go through another levelYou're given the opportunity to go back to camp with your loot and money at the end of each stage, any unused loot you disgard before your next run.Controls feel great and 3 players is just enough to keep things chaotic but managable. The game scales with the amount of players you've got.There's light puzzles in the world that you need to figure out that give you pretty cool rewards. They're clever but not too hard. Some hidden stuff in the world too, you just have to pay attention and experiment.Drop in, drop out multiplayer offline and online (Note, you join an online game when they finish a section of a stage).You only have one revive in multiplayer where your partner needs to get to you before the valkyrie gets you.There's a new game + that has its own content not accessible in normal mode. I've primarily been playing it solo by choice and occassionally hop online.Game is awesome for the price.. Do you like Castle Crashers or other classic arcade beat'em ups? Then this game is a solid addition to them.The 4 characters in the game all feel different to play and are quite fun, the hit feedback and lane designation is much more well done than Castle Crashers- but ultimately it still doesn't beat Streets of Rage.Still a solid 5-10 hours you can get out of this with your friends, Would definitely recommend. My only complaint is that since there are only 4 characters (no unlocks) the artificial replayable is low, there are fun achievement runs involving bringing an item along with you through each act.So its a pretty fun sidescrolling beat'em up, but it doesn't have as much artificial replayability as Castle Crashers. Still would recommend though, I hope maybe we get a dlc act+characters in the future.. The game has an amazing art style and presentation, however where it is lacking in polish and most likely some testing is it's actual gameplay mechanics.The game uses 4 "lanes", however there is absolutely no transparency between these, so if enemies or allies are in a lane "in front" of you, you can't see anything, because they obscure everything behind them. And also, flying enemies only give off a very small shadow on the ground of the lane they are on, which visually does not match the actual height you perceive them as flying on. In general, during actual battles, you are most likely going to be confused with positioning most of the time, which is critical, due to all animations being cumbersome and heavy on frames and there being no animation cancelling as far as I could've figured out, which is dumb, considering that even common enemies can have super armor on certain attack animations. To be honest, the combat feels pretty unresponsive, chaotic and same-y button mashy.The movesets are also very limited, the few "combo" moves there are are very difficult to pull off consecutively and most of the time aren't worth it, because they lock you in unfavorable animations or positioning as well.Bosses are very generic, high HP beatsticks with massive damage, even telegraphing attacks does not help combined with mob summons and the frantic and obscuring lane system. Plus the later bosses also add very irritating mechanics like an impending pit of death, where you have to kill the massive HP pool boss before you reach it, or constant spamming of "barrage" attacks while fighting off mobs and the battlefield not fitting inside one immovable screen, so the boss can run away from your screen, and you have to chase after him while dodging everything through the obscuring lanes as well. Accidentally jumping, falling off, or being knocked off "lanes" in all four directions is very common as well, and the battles are just too chaotic and frantic to follow even with a single player, not to mention with 2 or 3 players at once. Golden Axe style "mounts" are a nice addition.Progression is there, but it's lackluster at most, items and level ups only add mostly insignificant + or - numbers to your stats. The few (as in 2 or 3) new moves you unlock also give you a message that you've unlocked them and the button combination ONCE, with no other way to show a move list of some sort at all.Overall, kudos to the art and sound designers, but the gameplay guys were probably slacking off.Get it only if you have some friends for COOP who can share the frustration and hopefully make it a more enjoyable ride.. A wonderful lane based brawler (its real time combat, you can move around and jump from lane to lane freely) full of loot to be pillaged, gear to be collected, beautiful art and wonderful music. Also features 4K and 144HZ support, and runs great which is always great to see. The combat is tight and very satisfying, though I would very much recommend using a controller (they have options to switch prompts between XBOX and Playstation). There is the option to rebind keyboard keys if you want to play that way, however there is currently no mouse support for menus and whatnot.
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