CREDIT: DEAD CELLS © MOTION TWIN
Dead Cells is the game where permadeath will become the norm to keep you interested in playing more and more.

In video games, we players fear permanent death (permadeath) situations. All those hours spent collecting items or raising levels means nothing when there is no way to save the progress of the game.

Gamers out there, get ready to cry and pull your hair out with the hit cross console video game, Dead Cells.

In this action platformer from Motion Twin you play as the Prisoner, a gelatinous form of cells with the ability to take over corpses. With the game taking place in a deadly island prison where the undead roam free, you’ll have an endless supply of bodies for your needs. Exploration will be key to escape the maze like dungeons of the madness you have found yourself in.

As a mass of cells you, the player, will be happy to know that when your current body is too punctured by enemy attacks to drag on further, you will survive by returning to the beginning of the prison where you started. Here you will be able to continue your journey. Although, you will have lost all the abilities and items you have gained thus far.

But have no fear, brave gamer, you will be rewarded for your misfortune by being able to access certain features and abilities you unlocked from your other lives. And if that doesn’t tickle you pink, you can take a gander at the pile of corpses you have left behind in your cell as a memento of your past explorations.

The goal is to survive for as long as you can, but this game also encourages exploration of the many routes players can take on their adventure throughout the prison. Each dungeon map is procedurally generated to keep them fresh and new each time you continue your adventure. This keeps the areas entertaining when you pass through again. Enemies, items and other secrets throughout the areas will keep your eyes constantly on the lookout for their new locations.

Similar to the Dark Souls series, Dead Cells takes on a “cells” system as the game’s currency. These can be collected throughout the dungeons to be used to buy various upgrades, items and equipment, but be careful because just like true Souls fashion, if you die before reaching the safe zone at the end of a dungeon, you lose all the souls accumulated there.

The battle system can become a great experiment of merging different weapons and battle styles together. Players will be encouraged to try different equipment combinations to combat the various foes in the dungeon. You will definitely be kept on your toes, especially when battling the boss enemies called the Keepers who can be encountered at certain parts of your prison exploration.

Players will appreciate Motion Twin’s various hidden gag conversations hidden throughout the prison as ours silent, but rather spunky, character meets others living within this dangerous world and interacts with them in different ways. While the retro pixel graphics will amaze you with the fluidity it shows in the game’s action packed gameplay, revealing the 3D models beneath its 2D likeness.

Pick up a controller and take Dead Cells for a spin that will keep you immersed for hours on end with its endless variety of stages and strategic battle system as you take on the undead or die repeatedly trying to survive.