Next Up Hero
So you think can slay all the monsters and win eternal glory, is that it? Bad news, hero. In the Spiral Shards, we can only send in one hero at a time to fight the Ceaseless Dirge. At some point, a flaming…
Next Up Hero is an adventure developed by Digital Continue, released 28 June 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.
What Next Up Hero is
Next Up Hero is an adventure game developed by Digital Continue and released in 2018. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
So you think can slay all the monsters and win eternal glory, is that it? Bad news, hero. In the Spiral Shards, we can only send in one hero at a time to fight the Ceaseless Dirge. At some point, a flaming blue fireball, mech mortar rocket, or giant spike of doom is going to hit you in the face, and you’re going to die. That’s when the fun begins. When you die, you’ll leave behind an Echo of your hero on the battlefield. The next hero in line will be able to resurrect your Echo as an AI battle companion. Take turns continuing each other’s games, fighting and dying with friends until you have an entire army of Echoes by your side. Everyone dies. Heroes continue. Next Up Hero is a 2D action…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Next Up Hero holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 (3.4 GHz) or AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz), 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6850 / NVIDIA GeForce 650 / Intel Iris Pro 5200. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
Next Up Hero launched on 28 June 2018, within three weeks of Among Us, Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and Wreckfest. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Among Us, Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Wreckfest.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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