It’s a formula that players will be able to easily get the hang of, and Young Souls perfectly utilizes it, with combat being nice, fast and smooth, requiring proper timing and attention in order to excel. Kick the butt of one batch of enemies, get the “GO!” sign, advance to the next. The basics involve a standard beat-’em-up formula, one with light attacks, charged attacks, dashes, blacks, parrying, special attacks, etc. The process in question, mind you, involves gathering as many sharp weapons and pieces of armor as possible and going to town on several goblin hordes. But now the current goblin ruler finally wants back on the topside that their kind has been banished from, and so Jenn and Tristan have to halt their plans to build a destructive machine while saving the Professor in the process. And it only gets weirder when one of the goblins, Baldwin, retreats with our duo and lets them know that the Professor has actually been helping to try and broker peace between the human and goblin worlds for years. The two have apparently had a hard life and are basically seen as mysterious hooligans by their town’s residents, and as such don’t care much for others and are still struggling to even think of calling the Professor “Dad.” But it turns out that’s now the least of their concerns when it comes to the professor, as they find him kidnapped one day, dragged into an underground goblin world (or “Gobbons”). Young Souls is the story of Jenn and Tristan, an orphaned pair of twins that have been taken in my a mysterious professor (simply known as “The Professor”). It helps that most of the flaws don’t detract from the experience, instead just having you wish there was more to experience (arguably the better flaw to have), but a lot of the fun comes from just being a satisfying, old school-style brawler. Young Souls, a new beat-’em-up/dungeon crawler hybrid from developers 1P2P, is the type of game that’s incredibly fun, where the sheer enjoyability coming from the core gameplay loop essentially drowns out whatever flaws there might possibly be.
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