The time came to tackle the last circle of Hell - Heresy. Early on I got Guy Fawkes, who applies 5 Decay to the enemy at the start of the battle giving you essentially 15 free damage when you attack. In fact I managed to upgrade him at the Anvil of …
The time came to tackle the last circle of Hell - Heresy. Early on I got Guy Fawkes, who applies 5 Decay to the enemy at the start of the battle giving you essentially 15 free damage when you attack. In fact I managed to upgrade him at the Anvil of Souls making him apply 10 Decay instead (55 extra damage in total). One of the tougher fights was against Chernobog (a miniboss), who hit really hard - each of his damage cards was about 30+ points, so shields were essential. I finished him by imploding the Stigma on him, dealing massive damage. While struggling to use the Anvil of Souls due to the frankly broken UI, I just realised that you can only equip 2 Damned at a time unless you upgrade your character.
Eventually I reached the boss of this circle - Lucifer The Morning Star. His attacks start normal, but a lot of them have massive Boosts on them, meaning the longer you play the more dangerous he becomes. Lucifer's redraw ability damages you and it also has 3 Boost, so you can't really redraw until you have the best cards to avoid damage from his regular cards. From what I can tell it's best to finish him as quickly as possible and I did that by Imploding the Stigma on him. Disappointingly there is no ending for Jeanne - just some text how she's the ruler of Hell now that Lucifer is defeated. Back at Nadir I unlocked Cortes as a playable character and some more card packs for Vlad. Honestly though, I have no motivation to replay the game with these 2 characters (who should've been unlocked from the start).
Nadir is an interesting deck builder game. The system is simple, but there is a lot of strategy involved on which enemy cards you'd want to activate. I really love the grim-dark aesthetic and creature designs. The game definitely has some UI issues here and there and the Anvil of Souls is downright broken and nearly unusable. Even with all that I would still recommend the game. It doesn't have much replay incentives once you complete it, but you can have a lot of fun trying the other characters and fighting against new enemies. I really recommend giving this game a try if you like the genre.
