Hopefully, they don’t show up when you’re fighting a hard enemy. These Ghosts are just a copy of you when you died and will go right to attacking you if they spot you (there are some areas that you can easily hide from them, thankfully) and trust me, you want to spot your Ghost first before they get in a surprise hit. If you do die, you lose all of your Axions, which you can try to go back to where you die and retrieve them off the ground, and will cause a Ghost to be made. Thankfully, you do have an healing item that you charge by landing hits and heals all of your health to keep you alive longer. You will most likely die a lot, so get ready and make sure to find and touch these Breaches that are scattered around. This is pretty funny and helpful if you manage to get that setup. You can even get enemies to do damage to other enemies if you happen to have them grouped up. And well, if you’ve had difficulty with certain bosses, there’s also a chance they’re a patrolling enemy in another area that’s (of course) weaker, but still difficult. It does help that there is a window while you’re winding up that you can cancel your attack and dodge out of the way, and you can make your enemy cancel their attack with the force of your hit. These bosses do have a set of attacks which you can catch on to so you can dodge, but they are pretty quick so you really need to be on your toes (well, you do with regular enemies too, but especially with bosses). And, of course, bosses are in most of the areas you’ll be visiting and you are clearly told about it by a slightly transparent wall. As you’re going through each area, you’ll run into a lot of enemies, which vary depending on where you’re at, that drops Axions upon death and maybe a weapon or equipment piece as well. You even get an alternate attack if you don’t have a shield equipped (which may be the key to defeating a boss), as well as ranged weapon options (which uses Energy). Though you will get painfully staggered if you try to block an attack with not enough stamina.
You have your usual light and strong attacks, dodging, shields, and stamina that determines if you’ll be able to still attack, dodge, or run.
If you’re familiar with Dark Souls, you’ll already be familiar with how Hellpoint works and plays. It becomes pretty obvious early on that you also weren’t the first Spawn, as you can see piles and piles of bodies littering Irid Nova, and it’s still up in the air whether you’ll be the last. Though, he insists that you’re not being forced to do this. With you being created by The Author, you are immune and he has tasked you with gathering information (or lore as the game will track it and I’ve heard it determines the ending you’ll get) and bringing your findings to him. While the story here is one you’ll slowly find out as you progress and explore, you know that you came after some sort of cataclusmic event that caused damn near everyone to die or lose their mind, as well as attracting various entities that caused Irid Novo, the space station Hellpoint takes place, to become as dangerous as it is now and fall from the glory you’re told that it had. You come into Hellpoint as a new artificially made human, or “Spawn”, that was brought to life by someone named The Author. Well, looks like it’s time for my first souls-like with Hellpoint, where I was drawn due to the dark, sci-fi aesthetic. I went further than the beginning, trust me it took me a long time to get past the beginning, but eventually stopped half because Eileen got killed and I wanted her to stay alive (well, and I feel like I should restart whenever I return to it) and I got busy with school. And then, when I finally got a PS4, I picked up Bloodborne and I fell in love. My entry point was with Dark Souls 2, which I now know wasn’t a good choice since it’s considered the worst (at least I didn’t get the Scholar of the First Sin version), but I didn’t get too far. I definitely overestimate my skills though. Maybe it’s just the overwhelmingly positive reception it has or that I love the look of them. To be honest, I’m not that good at Souls games, but I can’t help myself from wanting to play them.
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