Another one of the new monsters makes it debut, and I was a little disappointed we had to wait this long. If I were a Great Sword user, I would be even more so since his set is designed with them in mind, but I digress. I have yet to try this guy with a non-piercing focused gunbow as I imagine his ice weapons being well suited to blocking shots. Despite his small size and how his body is shaped, there are still opportunities to line up some pretty hard hitting shots. I believe there are 4 break zones on him, and the trick to everything would be breaking all 4 without killing him. In low rank, there is not really that much to get from him, but he will have a unique drop in high rank. As you may guess, it will take us a little while to reach him there though. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-F4Im9pGU

On account of the holiday and blizzard that went with it, I decided to give the backer's only demo of Thief's Roulette a try. Sadly, it is not available to the public, but I have spliced together my playthrough to show you some of the cast and a pair of the escape rooms offered. I don't have any idea on time frame of release, but with this you can see how things are coming along and can even compare the new art assets against the ones initially offered during the Kickstarter. So the premise is that you and fourteen other people have been abducted and are forced to play a series of escape rooms in order to survive. You will be working in groups of 5 at first (less when people start dropping), and have to figure out how to unlock the door allowing you to leave your room. I don't know if every character has a route or ending, but there are bound to be some junctions that we will need to revisit to unlock everything. We kick things off by meeting the cast, and while I was expecting there to be more to do at first, but you are literally just meant to speak to them and move onto the next area since that is the very beginning. From there, we enter the first puzzle room, which requires a keycard before we can enter the subway terminal. You just need to find some objects to make a lever to unlock the card, then you can move onto the next room where the real puzzles await. Find your decoder card, realize the orientation of the numbers (I kept thinking it was backwards), read the floor tiles correctly, then put in the combination to leave. The second room is the one that I did not complete, so I invite you to find the final combination. The only clue I have after speaking with the dev is that it is in the graveyard. We need to find some passwords, so we will start with the one under the mug. That will unlock a key, and if we retrieve the only one from the filing cabinet, we can get the decoder. From there, we need to put in a series of letters into the decoder to get numbers, which are the passwords for quite a few combinations. Lastly, you need to translate some roman numerals into arabic numerals to complete the game, giving you the final combination that I ran out of time to find. Overall, I have not been actively following the game's development, so seeing some the of the new art has been a pleasant surprise. I also thought it was static images for the puzzle rooms, but we can freely navigate, which I hope does not mean any pixel hunts. The lack of illumination for a lot of the areas is a little disappointing, but there is still plenty of time for that to be addressed. My final impression is that I do like what I see here, and the game was coming along better than I had hoped. I don't know when the finished game will be available, but th ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btU-8RHmTiA