Nine Sols Demo Review: A Must-Play for Souls-Like Fans

Experience my first encounter with Nine Sols, an action-packed game that's left me yearning for its full release.

Nine Sols is a soulslike video game developed by RedCandleGames and published by RedcandleGames. In this review we will explore the lore heavy sekiro style demo and the various aspects like gameplay, graphics and sound and whether you should play or not. The Gameplay of Nine Sols offers players a grueling 2D metroidvania with the deflect mechanic highly seen in the Sekiro Games. The mechanics are quite simple in nature as you have the deflect system, you can dash in between enemies attacks and The talismans which are almost guaranteed maximum damage upon explosion. Nine Sols does borrow a mechanic seen in bloodborne if you miss the parry you will take residual damage but by being aggressive you can regain the health back. The biggest mechanic is the parry system where there's the perfect parry which helps gain you chi to use your talismans and the missed parry which still parries the attack but you take residual damage. In between your run, you'll notice there's rest pods which help as your check point if you do die.

SHOULD I PLAY NINE SOLS? Play it. In its current demo version, Nine Sols offers less than an hour of great storytelling and fun hack-and-slash gameplay, but it’s totally worth the experience. While a few balancing issues need to be addressed before the full release, Nine Sols has become one of my most anticipated games for next year. TIME PLAYED I played Nine Sols for forty minutes, which was enough time to complete the entire demo, including one boss fight. The demo took me through most of the first chapter of the story, and I’m eager to see how the plot opens up from here when the full game comes out.