It is safe to say Dead cells he is more alive than ever. First released in 2018 for PC and consoles, the excellent side-scrolling roguelike makes you a resurrected soldier. Use randomly chosen weapons, which you use to kill randomly generated enemies as you wander through randomly generated biomes. It’s deliciously chaotic.
Developer Motion Twin has continued to bring the game to life by releasing a steady chain of additional content and diversifying the platforms on which it can be played. The latest expansion is published today, Fatal Falls, a $ 5 downloadable content that adds new areas, new weapons and a new direction to the game. Very good reasons to play, if you ask me.
Sounds like fun. Where can I play?
Dead cells it was initially available on Switch, PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Currently, there are mobile versions for Android and iPhone players. It’s also part of the Game Pass library and can be played on PS Now (well, for next week). I like Fortnite i Minecraft, Dead cells it’s pretty much everywhere. Personally, I prefer it to Switch.
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What about these expansions?
Over the years, Motion Twin and her Dead cells-focused label, Evil Empire, have released three major expansions for the game. They are:
Rise of the giant: This one is free and adds a stage called the cave to the game, as well as allowing you to take on a new boss called the giant.
Bad seed: Last year’s expansion, the Bad seed DLC, added two new biomes, the deteriorated Arboretum and the Morass of the Banished. These serve as alternative routes for the second (Walk of the Condemned, Toxic Sewers) and the third (Ramparts, ancient sewers, ossuary), culminating in a head-on fight against a gigantic 90-eyed monstrosity. Mama Tick, an alternative head halfway through the concierge. All in all, it’s a great way to shake up the early segments of your races. Five dollars.
Fatal Falls: Today Fatal Falls the expansion also adds two biomes. The first, Fractured Shrines, is intended to serve as an alternative to the Stilt Village and Slumbering areas. The second, Undying Shore, diverts players from the Clock Tower and the fearsome areas of the Forgotten Tomb. It culminates in a fight of heads in a scene called Mausoleum. (All those who hate this frustrating fight against the Time Keeper, rejoice!) This one is five bucks too.
All in all, after the expansions, there are more than two dozen biomes. With both expansions downloaded, your journeys through the procedurally generated biomes will be much more varied than with the base version.
What about the story?
Dead cells‘History is not nonsense. It is very small. You play as a bodyless entity known as the Beheaded. Your goal is to escape from prison, which you can do by advancing a body without towards the beginning of each race. The whole world is affected by a vague disease called Malaise, which seems to have revived a lot of corpses in monsters of various sizes and strengths. When you die, you will grab another headless body in the exit area.
He Rise of the giant added a funny wrinkle to the overall plot revealing that the collector, who is the type to whom you give all your earned cells in exchange for new gears and powers, turned out to be the worst in the game. Apparently, the collector had been trying to find a cure for the discomfort, the panacea, but he went crazy in the process. You can only get there with five head stem cells activated, a daunting and daunting task that I haven’t even considered tackling.
Head stem cells
These little blood cells … blood (?) Are Dead cells approach to difficulty levels. You can activate them in the initial chamber (each significantly increases the challenge more than the previous one) and you will have to overcome each difficulty level before you can unlock the next one.
At the end of the day, you play Dead cells for combat fighting, strong platforms, the irresistible feeling of incremental progression, the art of flashy pixels or that deliciously crunchy sound design. For better or worse, history exists on the sidelines.
So … should I play?
Yes! Let’s go, let’s go! Dead cells still freakin ‘rules. You first heard it here.