![]() When there’s only one human player on the screen, the energy is also very flat. ![]() Because everything from the loot and progression systems to the enemy health is tuned around multiplayer, when you’re delving solo in “Conan” Chop Chop, you’re going to be inching forward, trying to whittle down enemy health bit by painstaking bit, and hoping that the loot system is not going to favour any of the three other characters that you don’t have along with you. As it is, though, I do think that a licensed title should meaningfully reflect the license, and I just don’t see Conan in this at all.Īs a single-player game, it’s an exercise in frustration. It’s just that there are plenty of licenses that would have suited this game better, and if this was an Order of the Stick brawler or themed after He-Man, She-Ra, the 80’s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, or any number of other B-fantasy kids things, it would have been perfect. To be clear: I’m not saying it’s unappealing. This is why Conan Chop Chop comes across as an awkward misuse of the property, too the cute-and-bubbly aesthetic and Sunday morning cartoon theme just doesn’t gel well with these characters. Kids would watch it (when their parents weren’t looking), and later graduate to reading it (again, when the parents thought they were reading something a little more meaningful), and because of that there have been attempts to extend the property to younger generations, but Conan has always been awkward when it has not been in service of a dark, adult kind of fantasy. It was always presented as a grim, harsh and serious (in a pulp fiction manner) world of unrestrained brutality and violence. Howard’s Conan and the Hyborean world he is central to is… not a light and fluffy, comic thing. ![]() Really, the only outright problem it has is its treatment of the license. Unfortunately, it’s much too inconsistent to reach the heights of either genre-defining great, but it is good fun. It wants to be an action roguelike with a moreish loot system, but also being orientated heavily towards bringing four friends together for some button-mashing chaos. Conan Chop Chop wants to sit somewhere between Gauntlet and Hades.
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