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Chaining all of these abilities together created a wonderful flow of movement that allowed me to nearly effortlessly close the distance between me and the more basic enemies before satisfyingly slicing them in half. The Ghostrunner can run along walls, slide down slopes with great speed, and also utilize a quick dash that can be held down to slow down time and alter the direction of his momentum in mid-air. The only main weapon in Ghostrunner is a sword, though your speed and mobility options are weapons unto themselves. Of course, the action is what you’re really here for – and if you’ve got a thing for lightning quick, reflex intensive, high risk/high reward combat that gets decided with just a single strike, then Ghostrunner was made just for you. That gives you the choice to either stop and listen intently to what’s being said, or to just push on through the various parkour heavy platforming challenges that typically accompany any long exposition dumps. There’s a lot of well acted dialogue in Ghostrunner, but it all plays out via conversations that happen in the head of the main character. What’s especially great though is how the storytelling almost never slows down the fast pace of this six to eight hour campaign. It’s a predictable tale, but the story is nonetheless well told and respectably voice acted. Guided by the disembodied voice of an old man known as The Architect, the Ghostrunner gets wrapped up in an ongoing power struggle between the supposed rulers of this broken world, the efforts of a dying resistance, and the mystery of who he is. This means that we’ll learn Hel’s story, including how she ended up falling at the hands of Jack as one of the coolest - and hardest - bosses from the original game.Taking place in a cyberpunk-themed post apocalypse, Ghostrunner tells the story of a cybernetically enhanced swordsmen who awakens after getting thrown out of a tower with little memory of what happened to him, who he is, or why he feels compelled to immediately plunge a sword into the poor soul waiting below him. This latest trailer doesn’t give many of Project_Hel’s plot points away, but we do know that the game is a prequel to what Ghostrunner players have already experienced. Just like Jack, Hel’s journey looks to involves dashing through the alleys and rooftops of Dharma Tower, wall-running, slowing time, and taking out enemies with one slash of her energy sword. First-person platforming looks like it will make up most of the DLC, and we can probably expect a few boss fights as well. Of course, Ghostrunner’s DLC seems to keep most of the gameplay from the original. Hel also has an longer dash and a higher jump, which should make up for her lack of a grappling hook. As we can see in the trailer, she gets her own personal shield, which can save her from the one-hit deaths that slowed Jack down.

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Ghostrunner Project_Hel is set to come out on March 3 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.Īlong with some of the slashing and dashing that Ghostrunner players should be familiar with from the original game, Hel also has a few new abilities. We also learn a bit about the DLC’s playable character, and look at just how badass she is. In a new trailer for Ghostrunner Project_Hel, embedded above, we get a preview of some of the new moves from Hel. Ghostrunner was one of Polygon’s best games of 2020 and now it’s back with a fresh round of downloadable content (DLC) and a new character.

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