Yes, now you can pet the canine in beautiful action-RPG CrossCode. There are additionally now canine to pet, as of at the moment’s massive Version 1.1 update for the game. Developers Radical Fish have made good on their post-launch plans, and gone above and past with this one. The showcase characteristic this replace is the Rhombus Square Arena, the brand new end-game place to be for fight fiends. There’s three cups to compete in, every with a number of scored battles plus a continuous endurance mode, all scaling as much as high degree. Skilled gamers can earn fancy new gear there, ornamental gadgets and lovely pets.
While the pets are sadly simply beauty – they observe you round and will be pet – there’s extra to this replace. They’ve improved the already-compelling fight chaining system. Now for those who sustain an A-Rank combo going for lengthy sufficient, you may hit the brand new S-Rank Mode. Accompanied by a change in music and a glittery light-show, enemy spawn charges are boosted, permitting you extra possibilities to bounce from combat to combat, hoarding XP and uncommon gear. They additionally added a handful of latest quests (some taking you to all-new areas), a brand new problem mode for the Turret Defence mini-game and a bunch extra NPCs to natter with.
This isn’t the primary large replace to the game since launch. Not lengthy after launch, they added a few Celeste-inspired accessibility options. You can manually scale enemy aggression and energy if fight was an excessive amount of, and decelerate puzzles to make timing extra forgiving. They’ve additionally added in-game achievements, more talkative NPCs and new quests and anime speed lines as an April Fools thing, later used as an actual characteristic, and there’s nonetheless extra coming. A New Game+ mode and a few story-heavy DLC are deliberate for the longer term. Impressive, contemplating how enormous the game was at launch.
CrossCode is presently 15% off on Humble, bumping it right down to £12.74/€16.99/$16.99, and will get my enthusiastic suggestion. If you’re nonetheless on the fence, Keen Hoon Chan’s CrossCode review goes deeper, and there’s a free demo on Steam too, together with today’s patch notes.
