After 13 years, this canceled pirate God of War-like is making a comeback and its Steam Next Fest demo is the right kind of bad to satisfy my PS3 nostalgia
Oct. 16, 2024This is the best bad demo you’ll play during Steam Next Fest
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In its final form, Captain Blood had morphed into a God of War-style brawler with stylized visuals, and that’s exactly what you’ll get here. Mash X and occasionally Y to throw down combos, tap the trigger occasionally to fire off a ranged shot to keep enemies at bay, and hack and slash your way through a bunch of linear levels, occasionally stopping to break down a door, angrily open a chest, or murder passing civilians.
The key gimmick is the execution system, which lets you tap B just once to straight-up instantly kill basic enemies. This ability feels completely broken when it’s first introduced, but it soon becomes clear that ‘normal’ enemies are actually just fodder, and the meat of the combat is against sturdier foes whose health you have to whittle down before going for an execution. Defeated baddies drop money you can spend on upgrades, including additional execution moves that do things like refill your ‘rage’ ability bar or make enemies drop more cash, so you get a little bit of strategic decision-making when deciding how to murder your opponents.
Every single title on our list of thebest PS3 gamesoutclasses Captain Blood, but they’ll put you in a similar spirit.
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