Skul is a roguelike, so expect to play through the same levels a lot, making incremental progress before dying and being sent back to the start, gradually unlocking helpful tools and upgrades back at your home base to make your subsequent journeys a little easier.
Incidentally, I’ve chosen Caerleon for this review as it appears to be on most of the marketing material, but throughout the game it’s almost always (but not always) written as Carleon, so who knows? It’s a small point, but it did occasionally serve to take me out of the zone while playing. Obviously a large amount of your time will be taken up with the action of the game rather than reading so it’s not a deal-breaker by any means, but even now I’m not entirely sure, for example, whether the evil human empire is supposed to be Caerleon or Carleon.
That said, the writing isn’t afraid to be gently funny in places too, and there’s a quiet thread of silliness running through even with all the carnage.Ī small quibble with the writing lies simply in the number of typos strewn throughout. The First Hero and his sidekicks run the gamut from lofty zealots to self-obsessed dunces to frighteningly cruel degenerates, and you really feel a sense throughout that if you don’t fight these guys off, it’s going to be curtains for you and your pals. While you do play from the ‘evil’ point of view, rather than being a joyfully sadistic approach to being the bad guy in the vein of Destroy All Humans or Dungeon Keeper, it does a good job of presenting the ‘good guys’ as pretty menacing on their own merits.
S kul provides a fun narrative backdrop for its roguelike gameplay, and it’s nice to see an innovative reversal of the traditional good-vs-evil story.
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