![]() ![]() Hack and Slash refers to a game genre that puts heavy emphasis on melee weapon-based combat, such as knives, swords, axes, etc., while also often including projectile weapons such as guns and bows and arrows as secondary weapons. This usage carried over to video games – mostly MMORPGs and RPGs – and has stuck around ever since then. Hack and Slash games, however, have been around for a long time, and the term was in fact first used to describe a more aggressive playstyle in table-top games such as Dungeons and Dragons. The shift from 2D to 3D graphics also made a large impact, not just on Hack and Slash games, but on the gaming industry in general, with what you see on screen beginning to seem increasingly real. The story itself is great, and exactly what I expected from the series, but the narration change seriously hurts my enjoyment of this series.Hack and Slash games, also known as HnS, H&S, or Slash ‘em Up games, have grown in popularity ever since consoles and PCs started to evolve in their technology and became capable of handling higher graphics, more complex gameplay, and longer games with more elements in them. I feel bad going so hard against Daniels, but I just didn't enjoy his version of these characters at all and genuinely wish I'd just read the book myself. If he was at least trying to sound similar to Vikas' voices I could accept it, but he gives characters radically different voices, and sometimes different accents, and as a result it's hard to immerse myself in the series, since I'm constantly confused on who is talking, and constantly comparing his voices to the voices I'm expecting. We're on the 5th book of a series, so such a dramatic change in how characters sound is very jarring and confusing. Speaking of voice comparisons, Daniels' voices sound nothing like the ones performed by Adams. The tone genuinely sounds like a saturday morning cartoon at times, with his voices sometimes being far too exaggerated, especially when compared to the voices done by Vikas Adams. ![]() Luke Daniels is a narrator I've enjoyed before, but his voices just don't work for this series. Do you remember the 90's, and saturday morning cartoons, where 4kids would just take anime and plaster random dubs over a show, totally changing the tone and feel of a series just to make a profit? Well, that's what this book is like. ![]()
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