A journey through a hellish dungeon is always better with friends. With the latest Early Access update for Penny Blood: Hellbound, up to four of the Hellhounders gang can team up in an all-new multiplayer mode! You can go in with your friends or team up with random players from across the globe. The update also adds a new dungeon to the base game, new weapons, new NPCs, tons of fixes, and more.
Dimensional Rift is the new online multiplayer mode that allows up to four players to battle wave after wave of enemies. Each player gets to choose a character as well as skills and accessories to help get an edge against the evil monsters of Mictlan.
But if multiplayer isn’t your thing, the latest update to Penny Blood: Hellbound has plenty of additions for your next solo run! One of the bigger additions is a new area, the “Otherworldly Laboratory.” This laboratory is full of space-time distortions, as well as new enemies and a new menacing boss. Thankfully, each playable character now has new secondary weapons to help defeat these new foes. The new weapons at the Forbidden Trapdoor blacksmith facility include:
- Crimson Rain for Clara
- A Greataxe for Axeman
- Säbelzähne for Sariel
- Malice Cube Σ for Dr. Eugene
- Serrated Fans for Saltykova
Speaking of Dr. Eugene and Saltykova—the two long-range characters of the game—the new update gives them their own blood-surfing attacks, an ability their close-range friends have had for a while.
New to the update are four NPCs: two to help you at your hideout and two to join you in battle. While exploring the Otherworldly Laboratory, you can run into Nihila, a “tentacled being who has a love for tea” and makes their home in the new Subspace Tearoom facility. You will also run into Sabnack, “a demonic marquis” that just so happens to appear in your hideout and sets up shop at the Forbidden Trapdoor blacksmith facility.
As for NPCs that join you in battle, you have two buddies to join your fight through Mictlan. Dosetsu Igarashi wields rope bondage in battle and claims “to be the greatest fiend in Japan.” On the flipside, Jane Toppan looks sweet, but her syringe attacks can be lethal to enemies!
The latest Early Access update for Penny Blood: Hellbound includes new side quests, new cutscenes, adjustments to the gameplay, AI tweaks for enemies and Buddies, UI adjustments, bug fixes and more. For the full list, check the full patch notes on Steam.
Penny Blood: Hellbound Screenshots
Penny Blood: Hellbound Character Art
Penny Blood: Hellbound launches out of Early Access on Steam sometime during autumn 2024. I would be remiss to mention this game is a spin-off of the upcoming Shadow Hearts spiritual successor Penny Blood. News has been a bit quiet on the main game, with some worries over publisher woes, but the latest Kickstarter campaign update did mention Matsuzo Machida has been in contact with several publishers, so maybe not all is lost!
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