9TH DAWN REMAKE REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from Publisher, Developer Valorware @Valorware

This is released in the UK on the 24/04/2025 and in the UK is priced at £11.99.

INTRODUCTION

Rediscover the magic of the 9th Dawn series with this complete re-imagining of the original game. Venture into a massive 2.5D open world. Explore 45 new dungeons in single-player or online/local co-op, craft weapons, raise pets, play a deck-building card game, and take down the Castle of Maltyr!

FEATURES

Massive Open World: Explore over 45 new hand-crafted dungeons, each brimming with deadly creatures and loot.
Design your Build: Unlock spells and abilities, assign attribute points, and upgrade your equipment.
Enjoy the full game and the minigames in Single-player, Online co-op or Local co-op modes.
Raise Monster Pets: Hatch friendly creatures from eggs and raise them into powerful allies.
Side Quests: Aid the villages of Montelorne by partaking in a range of side quests.
Loot and Prizes: Collect a vast amount of loot and fill your collecting journals for rewards.
Deck Building Minigame: Collect maps, level up your card champions, create an epic deck.
Epic Fishing Minigame: Take control of powerful worm-warriors and survive deadly waves of enemy fish.
Side Quests: Help the villagers around Montelorne to raise prosperity and earn rare items.
Craft the Best: Forge weapons, brew potions, and upgrade your weapons to become a champion!
A complete remake of the original game: With a re-written updated story, new and bigger dungeons, and more action-packed content!

FAN ART

Controls are fun and easy to learn and easy pick and responsive.

Enemies are great as alot of variety to them and all have own look and own attacks to them for you to learn in order to avoid.

Difficulty options are fun and easy to understand and is still challenging even on easy setting.

Fishing mini game is fun and detailed as use them for crafting and has many options so has a reason to do as get rewards.

Card mini game is fun and very detailed and has alot of different options and more.

Skills are impressive as alot of options and even passives to help make own build and alot of variety from single target attacks to buffs and aoe skills and much more but definitely recommend getting the aoe heal and revive as perfect to help you and party survive longer.

Pet management is crazy fun as can get eggs from drops on enemies and can evolve them into many different trees which all have own stats and own look to them and definitely get the group aoe and revive ability as can use them to heal and bring your pets back when they die.

Weapons, Armor are great as alot of variety to them and can upgrade them and craft new armor and all have own stats, look and feel to them.

Alot of content for £11.99, as so much to do and explore the world and easy to loose hours in the world.

Can be daunting as alot of mechanics pet management and more.

OVERALL SUMMARY

Overall can be daunting as alot to learn. However for £11.99, the controls are easy to pick up and play and the enemies all have own look and own attacks to learn to avoid and Weapons and Armor all have own look and feel to them and the skills are impressive as alot of options and even passives to help make own build and the fishing and card mini games are so fun as have uses and are detailed with own rewards and the pet management is crazy and very detailed and so much more to do and explore. I LOVED THIS GAME.

I RECOMMEND THIS GAME.

Controls easy pick up and learn.
Enemies own look and attacks.
Difficulty options nice challenging.
Fishing minigame is crazy, fun.
Card minigame is fun, detailed.
Skills impressive own feel, uses.
Pet management awesome make party.
Weapons, Armor own look, feel, uses.
Alot of content so much to do and explore, easy loose hours exploring.