Here’s Where Dead Cells Is At In 2021

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It’s safe to say that Dead Cells is more alive than ever. First released in 2018 for PC and consoles, the excellent side-scrolling roguelike turns you into a revived soldier. You use randomly chosen weapons, which you use to kill randomly generated enemies as you travel through randomly generated biomes. It’s deliciously chaotic.

Developer Motion Twin has continued to bring the game to life by releasing a regular channel of additional content and diversifying the platforms you can play on. Today sees the release of the latest expansion, Fatal Falls, a $ 5 DLC that adds new areas, new weapons and a new boss to the game. A very good reason to play, if you ask me.

Sounds like fun. Where can I play?

Dead Cells was originally available on Switch, PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Nowadays, there are mobile versions for Android and iPhone players. It’s also part of the Game Pass library and streamable on PS Now (well, for next week). Like Fortnite and Minecraft, Dead Cells is pretty much everywhere. Personally, I prefer it on Switch.

What about these extensions?

Over the years, Motion Twin and his label focused on dead cells, Evil Empire, has released three major expansions for the game. They are:

Rise of the Giant: This one is free and adds a stage called the cave to the game, in addition allows you to face a new boss called the giant.

Bad Seed: extension from last year, the Bad Seed DLC, added two new biomes, the Dilapidated Arboretum and the Swamp of the Banished. These serve as alternate routes for the second (Condemned Walk, Toxic Sewers) and third (Ramparts, Old Sewers, Ossuary), culminating in a boss fight against a gigantic 90-eyed monstrosity called Tick ​​mom, another mid-game boss for the janitor. All in all, it’s a great way to shake up the early segments of your runs. Five dollars.

Fatal Falls: today Fatal falls the expansion also adds two biomes. The first, Fractured Shrines, is intended to serve as an alternative to the stilt village and sleeping areas. The second, Undying Shore, distracts players from the Clock Tower and the absolutely dreaded areas of the Forgotten Sepulcher. It ends with a boss fight on a stage called the Mausoleum. (Anyone who hates that frustrating Time Keeper fight, rejoice!) This one is five dollars, too.

In total, as a result of expansions, there are more than two dozen biomes. With both expansions downloaded, your journeys through the game’s procedurally generated biomes will be much more varied than with the base version.

What’s up with the story?

The story of Dead Cells is not absurd. It’s just extremely clean. You play as a bodiless entity known as the Decapitated. Your objective is to escape the prison, which you do by passing a headless body at the start of each race. The whole world is afflicted with a vague disease called Malaise, which seems to have revived a bunch of corpses into monsters of varying sizes and strengths. When you die you will take control of another headless body in the starting area.

The Rise of the Giant added a fun wrinkle to the overall plot by revealing that the Collector – this is the guy you gave all of your earned cells to in exchange for new gear and powers – turned out to be the big one. villain of the game. Apparently, the Collector had tried to work out a cure for the Malaise, Panacea, but was driving himself insane in the process. You can only reach it with five activated boss stem cells, a ridiculously intimidating task that I haven’t even considered tackling.

At the end of the day, you’re playing Dead Cells for the smooth combat, tight platforming, overwhelming feel of incremental progression, jaw-dropping pixel art, or that deliciously crunchy sound design. For better or for worse, history exists in the margins.

So… should I play?

Yes! Go Go go! Dead Cells Still Creepy Rules You heard it here the first time.

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