The Beacon is a light title with a pixel art style. The Game consists of two playable parts. A house for players to decorate and a Dungeon for players to explore, combat, and receive rewards. Players can obtain decorative items from chests and design their own rooms.
There is a wide range of decorative items, from a sofa to an armor stand. You can truly make the room the way you like and share it with the community. However, if you are not a designer, you can totally concentrate on wrestling with monsters in the Dungeon.
In the Dungeon, whichever characters you have, all have the same skill set. You can light attack by clicking on the left button, heavy attack by clicking on the right button, and dash by pressing the space button. The game has not imposed any complicated combat mechanisms yet. The light attack deals 3-5 points of damage depending on the distance between you and the monsters. The closer you get, the higher the damage. The heavy attack deals up to 20 points of damage depending on how long you have held the button and the distance as well. Additionally, your character will step forward using a heavy attack.
The Dungeon itself is fairly easy compared to existing action-based dungeon games. There are two major types of monsters, skulls and spiders. Any form of attack can kill a spider, whereas skulls have much more HP and require a couple of hits. Within the genre of skulls, there are melee skulls and mage skulls. Melee skulls attack faster, but only in a short range while mage skulls take time to ready his attack in a long range. However, your attack speed is faster than both of them, and either a light attack or a heavy attack has a crowd control effect that interrupts the enemy’s ongoing action. You can significantly reduce the number of foes’ attacks by attacking them while they are trying to act.
On the other hand, armored enemies are tough to deal with. Their armor put them immune to crowd control, and armor is thick as well, a full heavy attack is not enough to break the armor. Here are some strategies for hard-to-deal enemies:
Try avoiding them. In some maps, you are not forced to kill all the enemies. You can simply skip these armored skulls and move to the next stage.
Find obstacles such as walls, barrels, boxes, and attack them from there.
Hold the right button for the full duration, strike, and light attack at that moment. This allows you to immediately remove the mage skulls’ armor and interrupt his action. With another light attack, you can remove the melee skull’s armor as well.
Dash and double light attack can attack twice instantly.
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It is totally fine if you failed the first time, there is no death penalty. Review what you've done and perfect yourself in the next trial! But if you really hate battling monsters in the dungeon, you can still obtain a chest on the daily basis by answering questions in the tavern. Also, you can start conversation with random NPC in the tavern, and they will respond in a way that connected to the ongoing events. There are a lot of excellent details in this game.
Have fun in the Dungeon and be creative in your house!
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