Mythforce review: A great homage to 80s cartoon shows

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Mythforce is a beautiful love letter to those old Sunday morning shows most people have grown up watching and loving, such as He-Man and Thundercats. Of course, the game is much more than just an homage. It’s a full package of co-op roguelite goodness.

The game has been developed by Beamdog, well-known for remastering and re-releasing some of the classic Dungeons & Dragons games on modern PC (Planescape: Torment, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, and more).

Seeing this as their first foray into developing an original IP, the attempt is positive in many ways instead of being negative. However, it does come with minor shortcomings of its own.

Mythforce, unfortunately, does not have an over-reaching storyline. Instead, more focus has gone into players' gameplay experience instead of outright revealing what the story is. The game starts with a cut-scene that can be considered the opening for the “show." After all, the title was inspired by 80s cartoon shows.

The story is pretty simple and straightforward - Victoria the Knight bands together with three other heroes, namely Maggie the Mage, Hawkins the Hunter, and Rico the Rogue, to form Mythforce and protect the land of Eldryth from the evil vampire lord Daedalus and his horde of villainous companions.

Apart from this, there isn’t much to go with. However, when it comes to the characters, the voice acting is excellent and makes all characters stand out from each other. Victoria, for example, sounds dutiful and vain, whereas Rico seems aloof and slightly carefree.

Overall, there is not much to complain about here. The game could’ve had more stories, but that slight does not affect the overall experience.

Before you start your run in Mythforce, you will get to select one of the four heroes to go