6/5/2023 0 Comments Returnal dlc![]() ![]() She will find many consumables which you may want to save until late phase 2 or 3. Expect your health bar to almost be doubled by the second phase, and maxing out your gun calibrator by phase three. Selene will find many bonus floors with nothing but fresh guns, obolites, calibrators, artifacts, and resin. The Tower of Sisyphus leans heavily on rewards in the early climb. If you save items until the end, your multiplier will completely run out, and you’ll find your score multiplied by. ![]() Second, pick up your consumables while there are still enemies alive. First off, don’t get hit and clear enemies as fast as possible. In The Tower of Sisyphus, if you want to score big numbers, you need to be fast. This multiplier builds based on how quickly you take out enemies without sustaining damage and will run down on a timer once the room is clear. You’ll see a number labeled ‘multiplier’, similar to the daily challenge. In the right upper corner of the screen, there is a scorecard. That was until I compared my score to the leaderboard, to find others have scored in the hundreds of millions.īut I do have some observations and tips. I’ve made many runs up the tower at this point and was feeling pretty proud of my 2 million score. Even Selene’s demoralizing scream as she’s inevitably cut down by the alien inhabitants doesn’t keep me from trying again. Adrenaline builds as Selene climbs higher, my palms sweating, heart racing, eyes darting to the mini-map to catch my bearings on the floor’s layout. I found The Tower of Sisyphus to be utterly addicting. Always watching and devouring, never relenting or forgiving. This towering tentacled deformity represents so much more dominated by an all-seeing eye, punishing Selene again and again. On floor 20 of each phase, Selene faces the formidable boss, Algos. The tower is divided into phases, each phase containing 20 floors. Tower of SisyphusĪkin to the Greek tale of Sisyphus, Selene will battle and toil and endlessly climb, with inevitable failure the only possible ending. The bosses still take a significant amount of time and skill, and your co-op may fail if you passed up on the many rooms to upgrade properly. If a player is downed, reviving takes time, making it difficult to pull off a revive during a boss fight. This is helpful to keep in mind when a bonus room shows up.ĭon’t expect co-op to make this roguelike bullet hell easy though. Venturing too far will ‘tether’ or warp the players back together. ![]() The game keeps co-op players within the same room. I’ve found the Returnal community to be very helpful, fair, and welcoming. I apologized profusely, and we prevailed. Dividing loot can be frustrating, especially if you prefer a certain gun or if you’re running low on health and the other player picks it up.Īs a person who hates to be mic’d up, a glitch finally forced me to unmute my mic as I fell through the floor at Nemesis’ platformed boss fight. I found communication to be key with Returnal’s co-op because consumables, weapons, and obolites are not shared, with the exception of weapon calibrators at the beginning of a new sub-area. Here you can host a private cycle co-op with a friend or join a public session. At the beginning of every sub-area, a glowing orb called Chronosis awaits interaction, cloning another version of Selene. Whether you find the barren tundra of the Fractured Wastes a bit lonely, or the desolate depths of the Abyssal Scar overly punishing, co-op is worth investigating. Housemarque has also added to the lore of Selene’s story, which balances out the fast-paced combat as she slips into a dream setting and explores pieces of her broken memories. Housemarque’s Ascension DLC has added photo mode, main story co-op, and The Tower of Sisyphus, an endless climb that will undoubtedly end in failure. ![]() But I couldn’t pass up checking out the new features of Ascension along with the additional narrative. I had completed the game, discovered every ruin, endured Selene’s flashbacks, listened to every log, and conquered Phrike, Ixion, Nemesis, Ophion, Hyperion, and Nemesis… multiple times. After playing hours upon hours of Returnal’s hand cramping bullet hell, I never thought I’d return to the haunting alien world of Atropos. ![]()
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