Into the Pit - Spell Crafting Eldritch Warlock Roguelike

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today we are continuing my steam festival coverage and i can virtually assure you it's probably going to be for like the next couple weeks in all honesty trying to front load on a lot of these videos before they go away on the 7th but today we're going to be checking out in to the pit this is a game that caught my eye just because it has like a really really interesting styling if you've never seen this game before effectively it's a first person shooter roguelike where you are a sorcerer who dives down into an alternate eldritch dimension or like an alternate hell dimension in order to do something i'm not really entirely too sure what the plot motive is i skipped over all the dialogue when i was testing the game out to see if it meant like my quality control to be on the channel and so we'll find that out together as we go through some of the early game storylines but it's a game that kind of draws from all of the roguelike conventions rogue light conventions where you defeat different dungeons you annihilate scary monsters you get upgrades this one focuses around kind of like a hexan style casting system that's been split up between your body and your two hands and honestly i only played a couple dungeons but i actually liked it i thought the demo was pretty cool there's some interesting visual choices with the game and i'm gonna have most of them disabled for this video just to avoid what is inevitably going to happen here is that they've got kind of like a d-rez pixel mode for the game but i figured that youtube's compression would eat it up so i've got it disabled but you can go watch the trailer for the game up on steam where they've got it active and see if it's to your liking aesthetically if after watching this you wanted to get the game for yourself the demo will be up and live until october 7th sometimes they leave the demo up after these festivals and just let it ride but there's no way to tell at this point because i don't have a crystal ball and so anyways also down at the bottom you'll find a link to my discord my twitch stream and also my discord where you're more than welcome to swing through and holler at me let's go ahead and start a game off we'll go to a new slot and we'll dive on in and we'll make this thing happen loridia my cousin they've called me foolhardy but you're more reckless than even our grandfather your pursuit of arcane knowledge is admirable but this time i fear you have gone too far i knew you were following a rumor through the wastelands the scent of dark rituals allowing access to other worlds but since your last missive begging me to come here i've heard nothing it's not like you a prolific writer to become so abruptly silent so i promised to find you and now i'm here on the outskirts of a desolate hamlet under dark eldritch skies what did you discover are you still here and if not did you leave a trail for me to follow [Music] alright so here we are inside the hamlet this is going to be your home away from home and this is where you return to in the off chance that you get murdered which is virtually guaranteed to happen because that's kind of the progression that i think most games are going for nowadays they've kind of got you going to a level you fail you come back you get a little bit stronger and most games like this you're more or less completely and totally gated from winning on the first run just by sort of like hp amounts and stuff like that for right now we need to go talk to people now all these people are going to introduce themselves but the one that's important is this one on this side ruination is upon us stranger a profound evil is emanating from the great pit our beloved alderman has abandoned us and most of the villagers vanished with him it also appears that an invisible demogorgon currently curses you too restricting your powers the remaining villagers are too scared to do anything but perhaps the ritual keeper can help you i beg of you go talk to him his alcove is in the tunnel across the plaza okay um i'm gonna i'm gonna raise an objection here and just say like who builds their hamlet on top of something called oh there's tentacles up in the sky fantastic who builds their hamlet on top of something called the abandoned pit that's not where you build your home you build your home on the cherry glen you build your you build your home on the pacified plains you don't you don't build it on the abandoned pit man that's a recipe for all kinds of hard egg an outlander maybe you can rescue us from the disaster i'm the custodian of the ritual chamber and it's my job to watch over the pit it used to be a source of great riches for the village but now it threatens us all ah so there's riches in the pit gotcha now i understand why you built it on the abandoned pit the alderman and his runesmiths have overstepped the mark with forbidden rights a series of demonic quakes scattered the villagers in an evil storm surrounds us i beg of you please enter the pit and drive back the evil and rescue our companions there are enough runes on the shelf in this corridor to perform the basic ritual go beyond me into the ritual chamber and place the runes within the glowing sigil to open the pit once it's been opened you will need to steal yourself and plunge into its depths when you are within the first altar chamber look for my image with a scrying orb and we will speak further okay so obviously this is the ritual pit right here you can tell the game is actually it's got kind of like a vaporwave hyper colorful grim darkness going on about it and i'm not entirely sure if i've ever seen anything quite like it visually in a first person shooter like i i think there's been one or two other games that have played around with lighting but everything in this game sort of almost has like a neon glow to it that i think makes it really stark and makes it pop for the player let's go ahead and we'll access the ritual sigil so we open up pits we have runes we put them in here and when we put the runes in here it's kind of like dot hack from how i understand it like based on the combination of runes you put in it opens up different gates with different dungeons that have different aspects that are randomly generated so anyways we've got a rune of health we start every journey with additional health all right that sounds good we've got a second wind rune so we start the journey into the pit with a cheat death ability okay and then over here we've got the key to the obsidian fort this glinting rune unlocks a labyrinth of stone full of foul beast and evil traps sounds good let's do it nothing bad has ever happened from toying around with eldritch forces that looks perfectly friendly alright alright so here we are at the beginning of our adventure uh he's gonna talk to us it's just tutorial stuff so i wouldn't worry about it at the beginning of every dungeon you get to pick three items you get to get one spell for each of your hands that's going to be linked to your left click and your right click and then you're also going to get a rune for your body that's going to kind of set up what your initial resistances are or your special abilities are and you're going to kind of plan your run around that so let's get a power over here first we have a swarm fires mid-range scattering projectiles we have the fan that's pretty obvious and we have the nebula long-range clusters of projectiles i'm gonna go with the swarm that sounds pretty cool oh nice dude that looked really really rad okay fair enough i'll take it we've got little sparklies for our right hand we can go with the cannon which is a long-range burst fire sniper we've got the needle it's a focused stream of projectiles and we've got the bomb which is a slow moving but explosive long-range projectile if we had nature runes we could actually roll this back over but i'm going to try the needle out okay so it's kind of it's got a little bit of scatter to it unfortunately our red oh okay so it's like a oh so the size of the orb in our hand dictates how big the burst is gotcha okay cool and then for our chest rune we can get contagion if an enemy dies while poisoned the affliction will spread to nearby enemies we can increase our damage when our health is full and then we have a chance to enrage after being injured i'll probably set myself up this won't be immediately useful but if we can get some poison or if we can get some kind of like burning or something else like that on one of our abilities i think this could actually be really useful for like horde rooms that have lots of little enemies now we've got to pick a door to go through all these doors are going to do different stuff and you can kind of vaguely tell what they do by the symbol that's up and above we've got the chamber of luck doesn't sound like anything too bad might happen in the chamber of luck we've got the chamber of wealth that sounds awesome i definitely want to go in there a chamber of embers that sounds like i might burn my feet we've got a chamber of healing right there okay maybe save that for later a chamber of blood that sounds like it's going to suck in there and a chamber of renewal gotcha and then another ember and then another riches was that one okay let's do we'll do the embers first because i want to show you guys combat and i think this might be a combat room all right so your goal inside of every arena is to destroy three keystones they're gonna be levitating in random places you need to suck their essence and once you give them the big suck they'll go away and then you can get out of here bad guys are you around here hello what are you go away i kill you oh there's another one over there okay he's dead all right there's another one right oh we got problems yeah just kind of scatter fire everything are we good here there we go you're now dead there's fire runes around i'll definitely take some fire runes snipe him from across the map snipe you from across the map all right who do we have up and next is there anything visible there's one guy over there let's deal with him real fast something just shot at me there it is oh i got struck okay well let me grab up all these fire emotes real fast because i think these are going to be useful maybe for purchases or something later on wipe him out real fast before he has a chance to throw anything at us okay let's absorb this we'll give it the suck there it is all right the keystone is destroyed we'll hop across over to here destroy that one uh b4 warned when you destroy the third keystone it instantly pulls you out of this realm so make sure you pick up all the goodies and all the stuff that's laying around before you go otherwise you're just leaving free resources behind and honestly that's not being a good steward perfect out we go and as you can see each run is very very rapid like that and then they sort of increase in difficulty apparently i missed a moat that's unfortunate now that you've survived a keystone chamber select a reward oh yeah okay i forgot there's more tutorials so we can upgrade a power projectiles from your left hand will curse your enemies meaning that whenever they attack they take damage we have slicing bolts those will put bleeding on our enemies okay and then we have sometimes replenish health when enemies die that just sounds too good not to take so unfortunately i'm forestalling our build right now just to pick up something that i think will be long-term uh utilitarian i don't know if i can do anything with that can i do oh i can leave it gotcha did it give me all new rooms oh no we're still in the same room it looks like we get to pick one of the two from a side yup let's go for wealth let's see how that does for us we're not like really missing that much health so i'm not that worried about doing another one and there's two keystones in here oh this is like wide open man yeah you get out of here oh i'm crap okay i'm gonna blast my way out of this terrible situation you're down are they behind me okay they're not behind me just scatter some shots up there we go let them have it perfect just blast them into meat chunks i do like how visceral and vibrant the gore is against kind of the muted neon tones if you can even say that neon can be muted of the background but they've gone with like very very dull greens and oranges for just about every area of the game get rid of him he fires seeker missiles that's why i'm prioritizing him is because the missiles will chase you around we've got a mode of gold let's go ahead and give that the suck real fast all right we have sucked the magic forth it looks like i don't know we blasted the gluteus off of that it looked like there's just like a disembodied butt cheek laying around on the ground what's up broham anything else in here did i miss anything i feel badly about missing stuff in the last arena so like i'd like to be a perfectionist about this and make sure that i get every moat i do think that like a running head count on how many moats you found out of how many exist maybe that's a bit too casual for what the gamer for what the game developer is going for but i'm the kind of person that like it really it makes my butt itch when i don't know if i got everything it makes me just rerun the level over and over and over again okay so apparently we got it all in the top left corner it looks like maybe moats of blood allow us to upgrade our hp when it hits like that threshold right there or maybe we get a full heal or something it is annotated in the top left corner of the screen so it might be worth investigating do we have a blood room around here anywhere uh with our upgrade projectiles from your left hand has a chance to explode on enemies death okay so we plant a seed in them projectiles from your right hand put weakness on enemies okay and then frenzied resentment i'll probably go with yeah let's put something on our right hand right there oh and it changed the color of our hand and it changed the spell effect of the cast very nice okay that's the kind of detail that i tend to look for when it comes to giving the game like my nod you know what i mean it's easy to be sort of like lazy about it and just make the hands look the same no matter what happens but i do really really actually like the idea that your hands evolve and sort of morph as you get further on into the game and they kind of look different and imply different stats and abilities and whatnot as you add things to them is that everybody that looks like everybody i am getting a little bit of screen tearing right now even though i have the v-sync activated so that would be something that i don't know if that's just going to be hardware side i'm honestly not that educated about whether or not that would be my pc's fault or my monitor's fault or the game's fault i'll be honest with you but i'm getting like a little tiny bit of tearing as i'm running around luckily this is just a demo so if it is on the game then there's time to fix that and then despite my ignorance if it's on my monitor and my actual graphics card or whatever else then uh i guess that's just my problem that was actually an easy one dude that one wasn't even that bad we got all the moats if i can take another blood room i desperately want to find out what happens if i get all 10 blood moats let's see your slowing bolts so this is for my left hand oh i can upgrade it too so it looks like if you get the same draw it actually upgrades it projectiles from your right hand will do more damage on critical hits left hand slows your enemy the left hand is what i spam when they get close and so slowing them down sounds like a good plan and look at that my hand is glowing a little bit more white this time around do we have a blood room or anything we have another room of embers and we have another room of gold is there a place where i can look at ah okay so there is a place where it tells us what all these do so it looks like congealed demon blood that lets you cheat death oh okay so when we have a maximum amount it gives us a do-over basically like an extra life with the fire modes it says that we use these for forging with the emotes of insight it looks like we're allowed to enchant runes with the moat of gold it looks like we can buy runes so i assume that means these are not runes i don't think these are powers these are runes right here so they allow us to buy maybe beneficial runes to make our runs a little bit easier and then renewal allows us to reroll things and then moats of luck oh so the more of those we have the higher the chances will get like better drops like he said in the tutorial okay cool all right well let's go with gold this time around i guess because i'd like to buy some runes to make my runs a little bit easier just to snipe you out real fast i have range but i don't have that kind of range i do like the long range abilities and i do like the actual sound design of the abilities as well i think they did like a really really good job with that the abilities all have like a vague plosive gun like component to them that make them very very satisfying or satisfying to fire around at your enemies all right so we avoided that we've got one of our things over here that we got to give this suck to so we'll go ahead and do that real quick hey hey i gave you an order bro you better get that orangey goodness up out of there i like to imagine that as we give that the suck it kind of tastes like orange starburst which are my favorite starburst and of course orange starburst are the superior starburst all other starbursts are invalid uh we'll go ahead and kill you right there i'll take a quick scan around to make sure that i got every gold mote yeah there's one over here doesn't look like we take fall damage because i launched myself off that platform and it was up pretty high i like these little jump pads right here too all right let's get out of here i missed one i could have had one more dollar redo instead i'm dollarless uh projectiles from your less left health or left hand do more damage to enemies below 20 health slowing bolts plus three my right hand will now slow as well and then deflects back a portion of melee damage i'll prob oh it'll replace my enfielding bolts oh okay well this one doesn't replace anything so i'm just gonna take that there we go it would also be really cool if as the game develops like when you take in feebling on one of your hands your hand actually becomes more decrepit and like curled and you get kind of like dupois trends you know what i mean it gets all curled and kind of uh deformed or like if you get something that gives you thorns on your body your hands will then have like a thorn here and there that have grown out of it sort of rose bush style like i love little things like that that really add to kind of expressing your character's journey in an interesting and satisfying way alright so we've activated all four doors so does that mean that i can oh i can dive deeper or i can leave okay so it banks my loot and then we keep going i'm gonna go in and do this but if we get close to the end of the video before i finish it off i'll probably throw and we'll go back to town and just see how it benefits us to have all this stuff and take a look at all the various crafting mechanics that are available to us in between runs because i think that's going to be an important part of sort of pitching the game as well because that is a fundamental mechanic is that you're scooping the loot here so that you can take it back well done outlander you descended from the level above now you're familiar with how the chambers work look out for my friends there are a number of villagers hiding in the dungeon if you can find any chambers of the lost and speak to them i'm sure they'll feel safe returning to the village if enough return they may offer you further help okay so like new vendors stuff like that is this a chamber of the lost right here ah it is let's go rescue somebody dude let's be the hero that we know we can be we've only got to destroy one keystone you don't sound like a demon you don't look like a demon either so if you aren't a demon can you free me by getting rid of the keystone yeah let me let me do that for you give me that orangey fresh goodness it's interesting that you still get an upgrade when you're just rescuing somebody oh i can increase the range on my left hand okay inflicts poison on melee yeah yeah i'll increase my range that sounds good i mean with the spread on that ability it's kind of hard to believe that that's going to be that helpful but let's do more forging i guess i'm not gonna focus on luck very much because i'm not doing like a deep dive progression run it does feel like they're a little bit stronger like i feel like they can take a little bit more damage on this floor so they are upgrading as we go anybody else around yeah i was gonna say i almost walked into that projectile right there okay bail off to right here i'm gonna try to get rid of the snipers and things that are up above they're just going to kind of be adding projectiles to the arena it looks like we've got multi-gate that we've got to go through here too what does this do nothing okay it's just like a blockage that we got to figure out how to get through maybe i have to kill all the enemies that actually seems pretty likely all right there goes an enemy right there oh it deactivates the door gotcha is it timed doesn't look like it's time okay and then that opens up that right there it doesn't look like there's a secret jump or anything i can do on that spot we'll fire a little bit over that way was there a keystone in this area that i just sort of like swept on by let me go back up i want to jump back and around and make sure that i got everything i'm a little bit of a loot hound when it comes to games like this okay that's the corner that i wanted to check and it appears as though we've pretty much gotten everything all right where these keystones at we got devils on my left devil's on my right all right so we'll kill them right there grab that real fast perfect and then we will skeef on back around this way oh it tells you when all the emotes are gathered i didn't even notice that pop-up at the top of the screen well there you go i've made myself look like a massive throbbing sloppy idiot on the internet once more yay for my job on the internet looking big dumb so you don't have to uh yeah i like the idea of having even more projectiles that sounds good it seems like the kind of ability that would benefit from that let's go get some more forged stuff over here all right what is that i was gonna say that's gotta be some kind of weird diddle pit right there okay they're all down we'll watch out for diddle pits as we go through this place oh there's spike pits too okay so apparently my misery comes in multiple flavors in this dungeon gotcha all right well let me get you so was there all there is dude you can see it in the floor right there i didn't even notice because i was trying to go around the other stuff okay they've been swept a few more moats up and over the top right there i do like the jump in this game it feels very satisfying it's floaty and you guys will know that like i usually don't prefer floaty jumps but it fits with what the game is going for okay you're now dead how many more of you are up here oh my okay yeah we'll just go around that right there grab you i didn't see if there was the pop-up that said i got all the modes i definitely did not get all the modes there's a couple more around here on these little upper ledges there we go now we've got all the modes all right we'll go back and hit that another dungeon down i sort of like i think some people may not like the brevity of the dungeons but it does seem like they're getting longer and so like i i think it's just they get longer and longer in duration the lower down you get i feel like i'm plenty fast right now slowing bolts it seems like i'm only really getting upgrades from my left hand right now i guess i'll take haste i feel fast enough already but who am i to argue with the all-knowing and all-wise game uh we'll get some more embers over here so that we can actually do some runesmithing i saw that was pretty sneaky which he just tried to pull i was trying to get like a gander on my surroundings and he decided to open on me while i was still trying to figure out where i was at all right you die please you also the less heat seeking projectiles that exist here the happier i'll be there we go good feedback from the hits too with the little blood splashes and whatnot it actually looks like you're tearing your enemies apart with kind of like magical bolts and blasts i really really like that uh they actually they got that little animation just right for hitting enemies where it actually looks like they're being cut to pieces by all the magic that's coming from you it's it's a cool effect and they pulled it off really really well i'm actually fairly surprised with the quality on this one i don't know why i'm surprised loads of quality stuff comes out of indie games literally every single day but for whatever reason like i came in and i was like alright it's another roguelike you know what i mean but this one i think could give ziggurat which is like the undisputed king of first person shooter roguelikes a run for its money like this is pretty satisfying on the sound design and on the visual design front um and it's like bite-sized you know what i mean it's one of those games that you can throw five minutes into and actually accomplish something or like 15 minutes if you got like time to kill before you leave to go somewhere or something and you can just get a couple things done on a run and then get back to it very beer and pretzely all right let's go back to town after this one because i want to see how the crafting functions i missed a moat but that's okay i was rushing myself because i want to look at the crafting uh we've got yeah sure let's get in rage that i'm not going to use let's return to the village okay so inside the village we've got the town clerk you went to the pit and came back was anybody down there any villager worth their salt would have found shelter and burn the pungent purple weed to fend off the demons look for the smoke you may have also found traces of the other stranger loridia she came here weeks before you laden with books and tools i think she was looking for the elder men but she had already vanished into the pit or he had already vanished into the pit maybe you can still find her though in the depths all right you must delve deeper okay where was like this is the merchant right here and so i think we can actually there's no point in operating my business without clients oh he's not going to sell to me until we rescue more villagers okay what about you go away i'm trying to find my books damn things i can't upgrade runes without my books or scribes to consult if you want my help leave me alone and go rescue my colleagues oh no dude we should have gone in deeper i'm the key maker and you are not so talkative well you don't need to talk to monsters do you there's plenty of them around at the minute i am of course the expert in understanding demons in their lair and i can make you ruins to serve as keys to access their evil realm however with so many villagers gone in the pit there's little point doing the workshop no dude i came back specifically to do my crafting i wanted to see what it looks like oh man okay we can do it here we can do it here we can do it here it's okay it's okay oh that's unavailable in the demo so we can't even buy that one right there and i already own that one so i guess he wasn't kidding about there being a small selection it's mostly stuff that we already have well that being said this game is into the pit and i think it looks really promising i'm actually excited about this one now that i've had a chance to get like 30 minutes hands on with it and that's something that i pretty rarely say in my video i normally try to reserve my judgment and i try to make commentary along the way so that my viewer can actually make their mind up for themselves without my input just kind of commenting on what i'm seeing and what i'm feeling and then that's why i don't give it like a score or whatever at the end either but in this case i'm pretty happy with it the sound design is great the visual design is great the spell design is fun i really really like how rapid fire and how in your face the game is and how quickly you accumulate upgrades i think it's got a great sense of pacing and i'm looking forward to the final version into the pit everybody i'll be back tomorrow with something hot and fresh off the indie skillet but for now it's time for me to go bye-bye

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Length: 28min 53sec (1733 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 05 2021