New Gamer Nation writes: "With regards to games with punishing difficulty, it’s interesting to see certain games like the recent From Soft’s Bloodborne take off in popularity given the developer’s notorious reputation for brutally punishing it’s players for making even the slightest mistake and then having all of their precious hard earned progress instantly taken away, only to have them do it all over again until they learn to do it right. The Awakened Fate Ultimatum a roguelike role-playing game made by Nippon Ichi isn’t exactly a Souls game, but in a lot of ways it sort of is. As I played through the game over the last few days, dying repeatedly and losing all of my inventory and weapons again and again, I couldn’t help but find the more punishing aspect of the game made me want to play smarter, more tactical, and approach everything more cautiously and meticulously each new time and in this way made getting through to the end of any one of the many difficult dungeons a reward in itself– and also made it feel a lot more like a Souls game."
RPG:
The Awakened Fate Ultimatum is the sort of game the gentleman's C was made for. It doesn't do anything innovative or especially fun, but neither is it outright offensive. The game has a solid menu system, its fonts are readable, and numbers go up when upon gaining experience. It's good to watch numbers go up. The story has a lot of words presenting a morally ambiguous war between angels and demons. They're not especially compelling words, but their abundance suggests effort was put into crafting them. Unfortunately, despite this effort, Shin Kamikaze's tale of self-discovery, sacrifice, and friendship rarely connects. Nevertheless, it is.
Dungeon crawlers have evolved quite a lot since their origins, and have taken every shape and form. Transforming from environment to the next, they all consist of quite an entertaining experience, exploring dungeons mainly for items to upgrade your character and make progress easier, or at least try to. The Awakened Fate Ultimatum is a typical dungeon crawler, which combines the typical dungeon gameplay with a neat story and a lot of decisions which influence the upgrades which one may pursue.
NZG:
The Awakened Fate Ultimatum (AFU) is a roguelike dungeon cralwer role-playing game (RPG), developed by Nippon Ichi Software. It tells the story of Shin Kamakazi, a high school student who is murdered by devils and saved by an angel named Jupiel. He is taken to Celestia, the angel home world, and resurrected by the scientist Ariael who implants the Fate Awakening Crystal in his chest. Shin soon learns he has become God, and is thrust into the centre of the war between angels and devils.
