Today sees the launch of Dead Cells' highly anticipated The Bad Seed DLC, and the folks over at Motion Twin have released a wonderful animated trailer to celebrate.
The new DLC is available to pick up as we speak for $4.99, amazingly acting as the seventeenth update to the game overall. The Bad Seed introduces players to an additional path to take, sporting all-new optional biomes, granting them new weapons, and plonking them in front of dangerous new enemies. Here's some PR:
With two new biomes inhabited by their own distinctive bestiary, The Arboretum, a lush paradise to deceivingly adorable creatures, and The Swamp, where an overgrown arboreal settlement inhabited by ambushing blow gunners and spear wielders is your only escape from the gargantuan purple ticks that reign uncontested on the ground. Bleh.
Triumphing over the numerous perils means you will be rewarded with a conceptually unique armoury, including the first double slot weapon as well as a very dedicated and loyal mushroom companion. Of course, vengeance visited upon the monsters and conquering the challenging new biomes that once slowed you down is its own reward, but a few new weapons never hurt anybody.
Today has also brought news of a glorious Dead Cells - Prisoner's Edition courtesy of Signature Edition Games. You can check it out and grab your own right here - as well as enter our competition to win one.
We'll leave you with this gameplay trailer for The Bad Seed, should you want to check out exactly what you'll be getting up to.
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I’ve always been interested in Dead Cells, Shovel Knight, and hallow knight. Are they worth it? If so, which is the best?
Been chomping at the bit for this. Very excited. They more than earned my $5 with all the post launch support they've given. Hope we see more. Now to try and get my third cell for the billionth time.
@Aaron09 Personally, I liked shovel knight the best. I believe they upped the price for people that didn't buy it when the switch released. Looking at deku deals it's on sale for $25 which it is usually $40 now. I would recommend Shovel knight as you get five different games in one package.
Dead Cells is a rougelite game that plays like an og castlevania. Hollow Knight is a metroidvainia through and through. I personally think that all of them are worth a pick up but I stopped around 50 hours through hollow knight cause I was tired of getting lost. However, Hollow knight has the best aesthetics out of all of them hands down. Shovel Knight is the best bang for your buck right now tho.
@PhilKenSebben Me too! I'm still shocked I actually got TWO lol!
@Aaron09 I WANTED to like Hollow Knight the most, and Shovel Knight is awesome- but Dead Cells is one of my favorite video games of all time, like top 3, so that's my take. It's just SUCH fluid and fun combat, I legit don't know if anyone will ever top it - And if Motion Twin keep supporting it nobody will NEED to lol!
@Aaron09 Hollow Knight
@Aaron09 All 3 are excellent games. My personal favorite is Hollow Knight, which I would recommend if you like metroidvanias and a fair amount of challenge. I enjoyed all of the Shovel Knight games, though I did get a bit tired of the same locales by the end. And Dead Cells also follows the metroidvania style, but applies the roguelike formula to it (my least favorite aspect, personally). I preferred Sundered (another recommendation) to Dead Cells due to a more concrete progression system, but that's my personal preference.
So wanted to love hollow knight but too hard for me and got lost. Dead cells got bored with quickly, and shovel knight is a classic x x x x x x x
@Aaron09 All three are quality games but very different games, despite being platformers with a lot of combat, so you'll get a lot of different answers on which is best. Hollow Knight is like Metroid. Shovel Knight is like Mega Man meets Duck Tales. Dead Cells is like Castelvania but roguelike.
@Aaron09 Hollow Knight, especially if you're interested in story. Oh my gosh, such a good game! I can't even be mad at it for how bad I am at it.
Had this game since launch but hadn't played it much...until recently. Lately I've been playing the heck out of it. I recently beat it for the first time, and now I'm doing forge runs to make random items be of better quality. Once I've fully upgraded the forge, I'll start doing the harder difficulties.
@Aaron09 I finally tried Dead Cell when it showed up on PC Game Pass. Was not really for me. I love Hollow Knight. The art is also fantastic and a perfect game for the Switch
They both on GamePass (and tons of other Indies). What I use now to narrow down my Indie list.
@Aaron09 I IMPLORE you to try Hollow Knight! Shovel Knight and Dead Cells are also very good.
@Aaron09 hollow knight is definently the best. If you like platformers get hollow knight. If you like exploring get hollow knight.
That was more entertaining than the game itself. haha
I loved it!
Don’t get me wrong, Dead Cells is great, but the trailer was awesome.
I actual felt for the little mushroom kid and his father, I was rooting for them. Also, I want a pair of pan-chucks! Time to submit the idea to YouTube’s Man at Arms.
I would love a true Metroidvania single player game from Motion Twin without the rogue-lite aspects.
Absolutely love this game and they definitely earned my $5 for this DLC.I have over 100 hours invested in this game but I took a long break once I beat it to play other games.Last month I started playing it again and got addicted all over again.This DLC will only add to that addiction.
@tricksterdoom I need to retry Hollow Knight as I picked it up when it launched on switch but the gameplay didn’t click with me at the time.
@MeatSauce I actually felt the same way about the game for the first few hours, and then about 8 or 9 hours in it totally clicked and I ended up playing it for about 100 hours! Definitely worth giving it another go.
Love that trailer! Bought that DLC.
@tricksterdoom I’m gonna redownload it.I had a similar feeling about Stardew Valley.The first time I played it I found it kinda boring then I came back a couple months later and I fell in love with the game now I got like 200 hours in it.
@Aaron09
1 shovel knight
2 hollow knight
3 dead cells
@Aaron09 I personally never got into Shovel Knight, and Hollow Knight is beautiful but frustrating. Dead Cells, though? That's my jam through and through. One of my top Switch games. Ultimately I think it's just a question of what you like. They are all good games, just different styles. Don't let anyone tell you "X is definitely the best". It's a personal choice.
@Aaron09 Hollow Knight for sure!
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Thanks for all of the wonderful replies and opinions! Hopefully I’ll get around to playing all of them someday but based on everyone’s info, I think i’m leaning towards hollow knight!
@Aaron09 no problem! Ultimately the decision is up to you! Hollow Knight is the cheapest out of them so tgats why I bought it first, but I've played all of them and say there all really good
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