Vambrace: Cold Soul released for PC back in May, but this story-driven rogue-like finally has a release date for consoles. It will release digitally on August 28, 2019 for the Xbox One and August 29th for the PS4 and Switch. Because Japan is extra special, they will be able to buy a physical copy for the PlayStation 4 as well.
Vambrace Cold Soul Platforms and Release Date. Vambrace was released on Aug. 29 for Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It was released on PC May 28. Vambrace: Cold Soul Developer. Vambrace was. May 27, 2019 Vambrace: Cold Soul is a narrative-driven game filled with memorable characters, brutal challenges, and deep strategy. To succeed, you must choose perceptive party leaders, camp to.
Publisher Headup Games describes the title as a “follow-up” to Devespresso Games’ The Coma: Recut, yet it is not a sequel or even a spiritual successor. Instead of survival horror, Vambrace embraces a Gothic style of horror and focuses upon narrative and strategy. The publisher additionally promises “multi-class party building mechanics, punishing rogue-like expeditions, and an immersive story with high replayability.”
Build your party from ye olde recruiting board, craft new items from the old, maybe actually give your party equipment, and set out on various missions. Rinse and repeat for seven chapters of incredibly rich story.
It sounds like it’s a good thing consoles had some time to wait, as Vambrace has had numerous patches since its release on PC, including the following:
- Rebalanced enemy encounters, chapter flow, and boss encounters.
- Additional character skill upgrades with items.
- Additional character skills options in combat.
- More monster types to deepen the game’s combat strategy.
- Reworked UI that displays hireling stats and skills.
- New items and relics.
- Three grades of Bullion Chips which can be sold for gold.
- A fast-forward option during combat and trap encounters.
- The addition of Shelters between Neighborhoods for reliable spots to heal your team.
- The ability to equip and unequip items on the field.
- Adjustable difficulty levels.
- A basic New Game + option.
- Several bug fixes and text updates.
Need more info? Check out the launch trailer below.
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In the beginning you command a party of three who embark on the quest of ‘The Tutorial’. It’s not excessive, but at the time, I was so impatient to get through it. The controls were quite intuitive anyway – you can only move to the right. Tutorial pop-ups were frequent, and I thought Vambrace: Cold Soul was going to be complicated, but it’s not really.The commands are represented by images, and they aren’t generic, nor is it clear what they will do. I wasted a few attempts trying them out and in the process, lost some health.
I might moan about this again and again, but you can’t restore health during a battle. That’s like sitting in an F1 car on the starting grid being told you can only go up to 60mph. Bad example.Our heroine of the story is Lyric.
The party from the beginning find her corpse only to find she’s still breathing and take her back to their pad a.k.a. She’s woken by a chap named Lanvil who quizzes her background and her purpose.
He’s convinced she’s special and enlists her for the greater good and that she’ll be a good asset again the legions of doom.This is the perfect opportunity to fill you in on the lore in the dialogue “where am I?” or “I don’t remember anything”, but I’ll just summarise. Lyric’s pa is dead and has told her to travel to Icenaire to save the people. She ends up in Dalearch which is underneath Icenaire – a place that has been enslaved by The King of Shades. This isn’t a disgruntled Ray-Bans former employee with a new startup, but a man who knows his ice. He’s surrounded the city in a wall of ice. Should anyone touch it, they die. He’s also resurrected the dead and commands their spirits and because he’s evil, so are they.Fortunately, Lyric’s dad left her the vambrace of the title.
‘Legend has it’ that this is the tool to overthrow this wrongdoer and undo his wall of ice. Sounds all very Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, but the most significant influence is The Darkest Dungeon. But the bottom line is she can come and go as she pleases by passing through the wall.I first saw Vambrace: Cold Soul on my phone via a Twitch feed. Of course, it wouldn’t do it justice, but I wasn’t that impressed. The graphics looked good, but I thought it was a mobile game. Upon reflection having played the game, the graphics are indeed brilliant. The illustrations, in particular, are fantastic.
I wasn’t a fan of the animation style, but that’s personal preference. As an overall package, it was a visual treat. The same can be said for the sound production, which is also very good, but I have to admit, I did feel like skipping some of the cutscenes. Whether it was Lyric the character, the voiceover, or just the story, we will never knowBut, we all know things being pretty doesn’t clarify whether something is any good.
Seems like a Rainbow Six Siege type game as it stands, but they will need to surely add some more modes to keep it interesting.For £60 for the bundle though if I do manage to bag a decent VR bundle I'll order this too I think. Firewall zero hour metacritic. What else makes use of the Aim controller other than this and obviously Farpoint which also had a bundle originally?
The build-up to the game wasn’t really getting me excited. I’m a little tired of learning new character names and myths in fantasy games, that I kind of wish that orcs and warlocks did exist so I can learn about them and retain that information rather than learning about this kingdom and so-and-so realm. Vambrace: Cold Soul caters for us weary adventurers by including a codex that is accessible at the bottom of the screen. This is a good option.
By not having it shoved down my throat, I found that I’d talk to characters and go back and look their information. Result.Once Lyric embarks on her adventure, you can move around a map and interact with NPCs etc. You have typical merchants, but instead of gold or gil, they use hellion – no different than our own as it’s made of paper, don’t you know. You earn more of it by selling the loot you pick up during the game, which is vital in levelling up Lyric but also improving the skills of your party. Don’t get attached to them; however, as you will be swapping them out at the recruitment boards a lot.The battles are what make up a large portion of the game, and that was one of the most frustrating things.
All four of your party line up in order. Where they are positioned reflects how they perform. Those at the front take the hits and do close up damage, your team at the back handle long-range attacks and buffs. This setup works fine when you know how each class handles, but when first getting to grips with this, you can’t swap them out during battle.As a turn-based game, it gives you enough time to implement a decent enough strategy, but I found I was almost button mashing at times and it had the same effect as if I took my time. There is a harder difficulty, but considering this wasn’t an easy mode, it was disappointing how simple this method was.Perhaps most frustrating was the rogue-like elements and the permadeath for NPCs. I say NPCs – you can command them and all, but their story is irrelevant to the overall narrative, and your party is expendable. Maybe I haven’t played enough games like this, but I’m used to keeping the same team in an RPG, or perhaps rotating one or two weak characters if not needed, but having your party die is irritating.
Lyric doesn’t die, she just returns to Dalearch and loses her loot and progress. A similar approach is you can exit your expedition almost at any time and return to Dalearch with your team and loot intact.
However, you again lose all progress, so have to return to the start again.In Vambrace: Cold Soul, you don’t grind like you would in a conventional RPG. Instead, you need to collect loot to sell or to invest in your gear.
It’s more about surviving the overall expeditions that take place, as well as the battles. Lyric is your access point here.
As the protagonist, you build up her permanent expertise (pending you don’t die halfway through one of the seven chapters), and in turn, this helps the team. With Lyric, you can also change her appearance too.
Seemed a bit mad changing her clothes into casual indoor wear when battling the elements, but I did it, and she looked fabulous.Between each area or neighbourhood, your party can set up up camp. This is essential if you want to progress. When creating a camp, you put your member with the highest overwatch skill to keep an eye on things.
They can also rest, scout the area or sing/entertain the gang with a game of charades but it will all be determined on their attribute point. Regardless, when setting an action, you get +5 terror added. What’s terror? Well, it’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.At the bottom of the screen, there is a gauge that fills up with terror. The higher the terror, the bigger the threat to your vigor. How does vigor play into this? Well, if that goes to zero, you’re dead, son.
There’s no coming back. Unlike health, this goes down each time you enter a new room or if a trap fails. So you have to monitor your health, which you can’t remedy in combat, plus your vigor. Vambrace: Cold Soul indeed has a cold soul.
Ok, but it’s not very helpful either way.At first, I didn’t connect or warm to either the story or Lyric. As I got further through the game, I felt a bond and routed for her to do well and make her dead dad proud.
The battles got in the way of this and were almost a hindrance. Not a good thing to say when this is fundamental to the game. It’s not that it’s terrible, and I have an incredible amount of patience at times. I just found that you have to persevere with this for completion sake. I owed it to Lyric.