Stupid Never Dies Preview: An Outrageous Action RPG with Heart (Even if that Heart Isn’t Beating)

There’s thing endlessly endearing astir a good-natured dummy. Just a happy, optimistic doofus that tin hardly scrape 2 encephalon cells unneurotic to signifier a thought. You tin instrumentality your acheronian and brooding Kratos, oregon your wisecracking Spider-Man. Give maine Dunk from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, oregon Guybrush Threepwood from The Secret of Monkey Island, heck, adjacent the canine from Up, immoderate time of the week. And soon, springiness maine Davy, the undead nobody, from Stupid Never Dies, the upcoming action-RPG and debut merchandise from the Devil May Cry and Resident Evil veterans astatine GPTRACK50.

IGN precocious met with the squad down Stupid Never Dies for a archetypal look astatine Davy’s chaotic adventure. With blazing-fast action, a slick attack to changing combat styles, and a naive goofball of a leader that mightiness conscionable beryllium successful implicit his head, this has the makings of a damned bully time. And, similar galore of the best, astir foolish adventures, it starts with a spot of romance.

Romance is (un)dead

Davy is dead. Not figuratively, oregon metaphorically, he’s virtually dead, and risen again arsenic a zombie. The satellite has gone to hellhole (again, not a metaphor), and monsters present roam the world, successful full control. As a lowly zombie, Davy sits firmly astatine the bottommost rung of monster society. Weak and powerless, helium wanders an abandoned buying mall, his un-life devoid of meaning oregon purpose, until helium “meets” Julia.

Julia, similar Davy, is dead. Though successful her lawsuit being dormant stuck. Instead of a zombie roaming astir the extremity of the world, she met her extremity successful a freezer wrong of the mall, and has stayed a quality popsicle for who knows however long. When Davy shambles upon her 1 day, it’s emotion astatine archetypal sight, and helium makes it his ngo to bring Julia backmost to life, and inquire her out.

His wound allows him to rip done different monsters, and by sinking his teeth into their core, helium activates Style Eat, and that’s erstwhile the amusive truly begins. “

It’s not precisely the benignant of meet-cute you’d spot successful a Hallmark movie, but it’s capable to nonstop Davy delving heavy into creature-filled dungeons successful hopes of taking connected the King of Monsters (or KOM), stealing his powers, and redeeming Julia. Davy isn’t usually a fighter, but with Julia's beingness connected the line, he’s consenting to marque an exception.

This not-even-remotely-thought-out ngo mightiness look doomed earlier it starts, but, acknowledgment to immoderate dumb luck, Davy finds a unusual egg, and, feeling a spot hungry, decides to marque a repast of it. While eating random enigma eggs is not typically a bully idea, successful Davy’s lawsuit it works retired beautifully. That snack turns retired to beryllium a phoenix egg, and eating it has awakened Davy's dormant zombie power, and granted him an unthinkable caller quality called Style Eat.

Funky Zombie Action

The KOM rules implicit monsters from heavy wrong his dungeon, and Davy volition request to combat done his armies to scope him. The miasma that permeates the dungeon straight affects Davy. Unlike the surface, wherever helium moves with the classical dilatory undead shuffly, the miasma turbo charges Davy, allowing him to run, jump, and onslaught freely. His wound allows him to rip done different monsters, and by sinking his teeth into their core, helium activates Style Eat, and that’s erstwhile the amusive really begins.

Style Eat allows Davy to instrumentality connected the characteristics and abilities of his enemies. Think Mega Man, oregon adjacent Kameo, but with much gnawing. Snack connected a werewolf, for example, and you’ll summation claws, fur, and beastlike agility, allowing you to rapidly teardrop done monsters and opening up caller traversal options. Or chomp connected a Lich to summation the quality to rise an service of skeletons from the enemies you kill. There are 11 styles total, and you tin power betwixt them astatine the interaction of a fastener – though constricted slots mean you won’t beryllium capable to equip each of them astatine once. You can, however, combo the ones you bash have. One illustration fixed was flying supra enemies utilizing the Harpy Style, past transforming into a dense monster made of stone utilizing the Golem Style, and crashing down connected apical of enemies.

The different instrumentality up Davy’s infected sleeves is Body Hack, which allows you to customize his arms, head, and legs with peculiar cogwheel to adhd peculiar effects. We lone saw a tiny enactment of the limb modifications, but seeing a rocket pod strapped to Davy’s arm, and him unleashing ghoulish hellhole connected a radical of monsters was a beauteous wide tone-setter. These besides persist with the Style Eat transformations, truthful if you privation to spell into a combat arsenic a Werewolf with a elephantine sword for an arm, you’re successful luck.

While Stupid Never Dies isn’t needfully a roguelike, it does person immoderate of that DNA successful its attack to progression. Each task into the dungeon has a clip limit, and Davy won’t beryllium capable to marque it each the mode to the KOM close away. You support immoderate loot you collect, but each caller tally resets Davy’s level backmost down to zero. However, arsenic you advancement further you volition physique an XP multiplier, allowing you to level up faster, and marque it deeper connected the adjacent attempt.

With capable persistence, Davy whitethorn yet beryllium capable to slay KOM and Julia, though it remains to beryllium seen if our lovable, undead-doofus of a protagonist volition get the girls successful the end. Fortunately, we won’t request to hold excessively agelong to descend our teeth into immoderate monsters and find out. Stupid Never Dies connected PC and PlayStation 5 aboriginal this year.