

I remember thinking that Motion Twin really nailed the video-game-sewers fantasy: claustrophobic with jump scares (the scorpions popping out of the ground right in the middle of combat), toxic goo, and more. What was your initial response to the Toxic Sewers? You are in the position of having worked on a game after its initial release, which means you had experience with the Toxic Sewers as a player before being a Dead Cells designer. In terms of epicness, it also fits better in early game situations as your character is still growing. Motion Twin always envisioned this biome early in the game, as it appeared rather early in development.

Was there ever a thought to use the Toxic Sewers at a later point in the game, when players had developed their character a bit more? Developers often tend to fill them with horrible beasts, frightening poison mechanics, traps and ambushes, making it a universally hostile environment. We associate them with filth, small spaces, carrion, disease-riddled animals, and other such fun stuff, so we don’t have to project too much to make them a grim place, one that you want to leave as soon as possible. Sewers fit the bill quite well when it comes to difficulty. What do you think it is about sewers that lend themselves to difficult gameplay?

Sewers are a fairly common level in video games, and as in Dead Cells, they tend to be hard. 41 on our list of the hardest levels of all time to explain what makes sewers such a fitting setting - and where the balance between challenge and accessibility should be. Decamp waded into the area that we named No. Decamp worked on the game’s just-released DLC, Return to Castlevania, and he says he’d “rather go kill some werewolves in the Castle’s Outskirts after having raided the Sewers for five years.”īut, he insists, “the Sewers have their merit,” especially as an early challenge. “There, you face a bunch of new dangers that can be a lot for new Dead Cells players when appearing all at once: hidden enemies popping from the ground, ‘revenge’ monsters that drop bombs upon their death, poison pools, claustrophobic corridors, and more.”ĭecamp is the game designer and creative director at Evil Empire, a French game developer that has handled most of Dead Cells’ postlaunch content and evolution, taking the baton from the original developers, Motion Twin. “This biome is accessible really early in the game and looks like a logical next step right after you acquire the first upgrade, as you need it to reach the Sewers,” explains game designer Arthur Decamp. Any player who was feeling confident after beating the Dilapidated Arboretum, Promenade of the Condemned, or Castle’s Outskirts will have that bluster flushed away when they enter the Toxic Sewers. The 2018 side-scrolling action game Dead Cells lets players start from one of four biomes when they begin the game, but Toxic Sewers is by far the most unrelenting.
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Video-game sewers tend to be labyrinthine, full of poisonous enemies, and they sap your life away before you’ve even gotten started.
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Open above link to download user.Of all the traits that sewer levels in video games share with real-life sewers, the most pronounced is that they’re deeply unpleasant places to spend time. >(Current save file)<<<< Version 3.2 Everyone is Here Vol. If you need assistance setting up the save file.

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