

Something may just try and take advantage of your own blind spots. If you’re looking around a new room for foes, make sure to keep your eyes on your back and your feet. At least one enemy - the Angelic Knight near the start of the game - can attack you from below and at a distance. This hyper focus can also be your undoing. Determine your attack plan: Is it easiest to take out the difficult enemies first, or do you need to clear the fodder so you don’t get overwhelmed? Before you enter a new room or walk by an alley, swing your camera around to see any enemies waiting to ambush you. Make a mental note of where enemies are in a room. When you’re adventuring into areas you haven’t seen before, go slow. From the moment you leave your first Breach ( Hellpoint’s equivalent of a Dark Souls bonfire), you’re in danger from all sides. Hellpoint is deeply committed to FromSoftware’s obfuscation of systems and desire to kill you. Go slowly, make a plan, and watch your feet The Hellpoint player character stands in a dark room Image: Cradle Games/Tiny Build In this guide, we’ll teach you how to avoid some of these pitfalls, so you can focus on surviving the game’s first few areas. In our opening hours with Hellpoint, we made some avoidable mistakes. It blends a creepy, space station in hell atmosphere with the brutal difficulty and general confusion found in a FromSoftware game. Giger and Dark Souls had a baby” (or Facehuggered a new game into Dark Souls, in this case).
