#DEAD CELLS XBOX ONE SKIN#

Die in your efforts to escape, and the parasite squidges back through the island's plumbing to the prison, where another corpse is always, somehow, waiting. An action-platformer with permadeath, randomised rewards and procedurally generated stages, it takes place on an island overrun by undead creatures and casts you as the worst critter of the lot - a parasitic snotball that survives by reanimating the bodies of beheaded criminals.

Availability: Released 7th August on Switch, PC, PS4 and Xbox OneĪs the name suggests, Dead Cells is rather on the macabre side.How better to capture the morbidity of escaping to a world of make-believe only to shake it down for swords and tat? You can almost smell the formalin. I'm not sure the resemblance to a mad scientist's anatomy collection is deliberate, but it's compelling all the same.

#DEAD CELLS XBOX ONE SKIN#

Bounce into them - one of my personal rituals, before I venture into the dungeon beyond - and the jars chime together ever so gently in a way that makes my skin crawl. There they dangle in the jail where you begin each run: a galaxy of smoky coloured icons, sealed in jars that are chained to the ceiling. A swaggering, macabre role-playing beat-'em-up that's very easy on the eyes and dense with secrets.Īfter 30-odd years of pillaging fantasy realms I'm pretty sick of video game loot, but I do love poring over the vicious trinkets I've harvested from the tissues of Dead Cells, Motion Twin's superb, handsome blend of Spelunky and Metroidvania.

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