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Deception IV: Blood Ties
Deception IV: Blood Ties follows the story of Laegrinna, an animated fragment of an imprisoned Devil's soul, as she battles her enemies by mischievously luring them into strategically placed traps. From rolling boulders and spiked walls to spring boards, iron maidens, human cannons, falling bathtubs and banana peels, the player can choose from a mu...
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- Released
- February 27, 2014
- Developer
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Genres
- Action · Puzzle · Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Horror
- Publisher
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Platforms
- PS3
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Deception IV: Blood Ties Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Deception IV: Blood Ties follows the story of Laegrinna, an animated fragment of an imprisoned Devil’s soul, as she battles her enemies by mischievously luring them into strategically placed traps.
If you can’t enjoy torture in your entertainment, Deception IV is definitely not a game for you. But if slasher horror is a pass time for you, then this game will entertain with its cheesy dialogue, over-the-top traps and a lot of blood and gore. As a game, it plays like a mix of Pipe Mania and Final Fantasy: Tactics, though it falls short of being as great as those two were at release. This isn’t to say Deception IV is a bad game, far from it! What you have here is an incredibly unique game, and that makes it worth struggling through the occasional frustration.
Bleu Cheese has always eluded me. I want to like it, I see the appeal, and people everywhere tell me it’s amazing. I have even tried it a hundred different ways, but every time I go back to it I always ask myself “Why am I eating this, it tastes like a sweaty feet?” Some games are kind of like that too…minus the sweaty foot part. I was assigned review duties for Deception IV: Blood Ties and the absolute truth of it is that I tried my hardest to like this game, perhaps the hardest I’ve ever tried to like a game. Over the course of several days and several play sessions I would approach it agai...
However, for new players, Blood Ties may come across as both demanding and frustrating due to its reliance on trial and error gameplay. It’s certainly not a bad game though Tecmo KOEI could have repackaged the series’ core formula in a different, more appealing way. Though we’ve seen an abundance of them during the past few years, Deception could make a really good tower defence game with its focus on trap combos.
Fun in small doses, Deception IV: Blood Ties ultimately suffers from a bad case of repetition and is unlikely to keep you hooked for long.
Did you ever watch Home Alone and ask yourself whether it’d be more entertaining with giant, bloody traps and massive buildings? Deception IV: Blood Ties is just like that, only instead of the main character being a lucky little albino kid whose parents hate him, you play as Satan’s daughter, a young woman who has a horrible allergy to clothes. You’ll defend yourself from knights, sorcerers, and Nuns with Guns across a variety of deadly locations.