Steelrisingis set in Paris in 1789 during the French Revolution, where you take control of an automaton called Aegis, setting off on a good old rescue mission. That’s the general idea of the story, with numerous automaton bosses added in for good measure. Everything escalates from here as the game opens up new avenues for you to decide on the style of play you wish to follow further.
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And this choice is great, but it’s ironic how many of the same things we do when playing Steelrising. There’s a long list of weapons, armor, modules, and anything else you may imagine to choose from, but where’s the fun in that when we could all play around with the Armored Fans some more?
8Collect All The Armor Designs
The great thing about any third-person game is that the clothes you acquire can be seen by you all the time, instead of rarely seeing your showstopping stylelike in first-person games. And finding all of them is an easy task; if you explore everything around you, you’re bound to grab them all through natural exploration, which is precisely what most of us will do! If they’re easy to find, why not take up the opportunity?
There are eight armor designs that are separate from the clothes, but they’re what will give Aegis a sense of style.
7Using Your Shield For Everything
There are a few shield-based weapons that aren’t straight-up shields; in fact, most are quick weapons that also act as substitutes for a shield. The Dancer class starting weapon is the Armored Fans, which is excellent for getting in multiple hits and for defensive purposes rather than just one use.
Blocking and dodging are your two main defensive plans, where every fight goes a little like; attack, block, or dodge depending on the enemy’s attack. Tactically blocking with the built-in shield will reduce the amount of health shaved off your character.
6Max Agility On Your First Playthrough
Strength will get you nowhere if you don’t have the flexibility to back it up. Agility and other stamina attributes are always the way to go with a character build until you become better at combat and learn each enemy type’s strengths and weaknesses. The Agility attribute improves how effective your attacks with agility weapons will be because it makes Aegis much faster, letting you land more hits on enemies and therefore making the game a little easier.
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If you’re already incredibly familiarwith Soulslike games, maybe you won’t have placed as much into Agility, but most will have it as the focus, especially at the beginning.
5Select The Dancer Starting Class
Continuously staying on the move is the number one tip for any combat-focused game, so you can use the area to your advantage and dodge when necessary. It’s why many of us choose the class that best describes this, so we don’t have to struggle later. The Dancer starting class gives you all this with your beginner weapon,the Armored Fans, Flame Grenades as your explosive weapon, and an additional three Agility and two Vigour.
The other options are mainly suited for heavy or ranged weapons, which don’t give quite the same coverage as a fast-hitting blade. The Dancer class tends to be the one that draws in people.
4Building Up Frost Damage Against Your Foes
Frost damage isn’t cheating, but it sure can feel like it with how beneficial it becomes once the Elemental Alchemy attribute is upgraded. This attribute changes how much the afflictions you place on enemies will help out in combat. Someone with level 3 Elemental Alchemy will do better with taking down their health than someone with level 10 Elemental Alchemy.
Three Afflictions exist, but the best is Frost since, with it, you can freeze the opponent and bring down their health bar before they even get the chance to move again. Frost isn’t great against every enemy, but it’s the better choice between this or Fire and Fulmination.
3Panic Over The Choices Even Though They Don’t Affect Much
The crucial choicesin Steelrising come in late, when your choices affect which ending you see play out. Now, endings are essential, and you will want to make your time playing feel worth it by choosing whatever you believe to be the canon ending to your story, but these choices don’t affect the game world at all and are only a decider on which of the two endings you’ll receive.
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For the final choice, you have to pick either La Fayette or Robespierre as the ruler of France. Neither matters, as it only changes who’s there during a cutscene, but what is present is the panic we all face when left with that choice.
2Admire The Aesthetics
To be able to look at a singular image and realize a producthas an incredible aesthetic going for itis something very few games can pull off, even more so now that many titles follow the form of ultra-realism above all else. Steelrising has a style that’s parts realistic but also has its own sense of self with a muted palette, showing lots of pale colors like pinks and whites that wonderfully contrast the steel setting of the automatons.
While unfortunately not having a photo mode, you’re still free to admire the visual look of the automatons, scenery, and everything in between.
1The Classic Thing For All Soulslike Games… Die
Soulslike games are… well, they’re challenging by design. They are created with difficulty in mind and for even the easiest setting to make life hard for you. So when you’re faced with this, what is the one thing that everyone will do? Well, it’s to die at almost every possible moment. Bosses aren’t meant to be won the first time around, nor are they meant to be an easy ride. You will falter, and you will fail while fighting these baddies.
In fact, everyone will fail while fighting them and die at least five times while battling weaker enemies. Steelrising is noDark Soulsby comparison of its difficulty, but it isn’t the easiest game out there.
