takezodunmer2005: ...Yep, it's amazing you can play with either a M&Board or a controller, both of which are customizable, if you loved UNepic, you'll love this game!

doppelschwert: I waited several months to get this here and finally bought it on steam because I figured it wouldn't get here. Hurry up next time GoG!

Panaias: Is Ghost 1.0 a Metroidvania e.g. like Ori and the Blind Forest or more of a RPG like UNepic?

MarkoH01: Could you please explain to me how this "alarm level" is working? Is it a setting you can set manually or something that's happening in game depending on how you play?

Pyromancer138: From Spain with love.

I miss achievements and cloud saves.

Lone_Scout: The game has in-game achievements (just as UnEpic). You won't be able to show them on your Galaxy profile, but they are present. Cloud saves would be nice, anyway.

Waldschatten: As you progress through the station you trigger alarms that cause the doors to lock and enemies to attack, the more you trigger the higher level the alarm becomes, but it resets when you are destroyed and need to respawn at a printer.

Keeping the alarm level high gives you a lot more rewards and allows you to upgrade your shell faster, but it does make things more difficult, though I find I end up dying most often from forgetting that I have something equipped that damages things around me and taking an shortcut only to find myself being destroyed by some pipes that blew up in my face.

There are achievements (well, not here, but they exist) for going through alarms without taking a single hit, so far I've managed with the first five levels but can't seem to get a level six done perfectly.

Grargar: The game has three difficulties and two modes. Difficulties are the standard Easy, Medium, Hard and the modes are divided into Survival and Classic. Survival is a bit like a roguelike where the longer you stay alive, the harder the game becomes and the better the rewards are. Upon death, however, the difficulty and the rewards are reset and you lose everything, aside your skills. Classic is more like your standard Metroidvania experience, where difficulty progresses steadily as you go along and you lose all cash and any items you have not saved (the game will autosave and send you back to the latest save point after each death). The latter can be partially mitigated by upgrades that allow you to respawn with some cash, instead of none.

Having completed both Hollow Knight (the base game + Grimm Troupe) and Ghost 1.0 (on Medium Classic), I'd say that Ghost 1.0 is harder than Hollow Knight, mostly for how quickly can enemies drain your health in groups and healing being pretty sparse, at least at the beginning of the game. On the plus side, automapping is available right from the start and save points are more plentiful and have a secondary use as teleporters.

dtgreene: Hence why respecing your character to be a pure mage, casting Reflect Projectiles, and using a combination of Ghost Form potions (they're worth the 8 points in Alchemy) and fire magic to kill those ents is a good idea.

Erpy: I certainly can't deny the usefulness of any of those abilities, but respecing just to get around a single scenario always felt "off" to me. Whenever I played UnEpic (I probably finished it about a dozen times on hard++, mobs are annoying, but the extra skill points make the game a lot more fun), I always set out to finish the game with whatever build I was playing as. Throwing the build I've been using all game completely out the window at the 11th hour always felt wrong to me. I suppose that's one of the small issues I have with the game, certain bosses/parts require certain skills and if you lack those, tough luck.

dtgreene: Actually, when I played through on Hard++, I don't remember if I actually respeced. I do, however, remember that I played a pure mage build throughout the game.

The one thing I don't like about hard++ is the lack of invincibility after getting hit, which leads to the player getting stunlocked which is not fun.

Pyromancer138: Glad to hear that,dude.

Lone_Scout: The game has in-game achievements (just as UnEpic). You won't be able to show them on your Galaxy profile, but they are present. Cloud saves would be nice, anyway.