These skulls are somewhat similar to Kirby’s power absorption as they grant him new abilities and change his appearance along the way. Skul is able to carry a spare skull with him. Transformation skulls are the cornerstone of Skul: The Hero Slayer. Like any self-respecting tree, the most interesting talents require more quartz. Given the difficulty of the title and the number of runs that will be made before reaching the end, this tree will be filled quite naturally before seeing the credits. In exchange for black quartz collected during the game, you can improve three main areas: life, physical power and the power of the skulls. The skill tree allows you to increase the hero’s characteristics. They are recovered either at the end of a section, or from the merchant in exchange for coins of course, or in certain bonus levels. They can be pure stat percentage improvements (crit rate or attack/magic power, etc.), attack bonuses (throwing daggers after sprinting, bombs after jumping, etc.), pets that come to place a few random attacks, gain life or money… Quite numerous, they are classified by quality: common, rare, unique and legendary, and Skul can only carry a maximum of nine. The objects are quite different in nature.

These basic abilities are coupled with items to equip to boost characteristics, a kind of skill tree and skulls of transformation. He uses his bones to strike, can swing his head away to crash into the enemy or teleport to them and perform a double jump. It therefore trains the player to take control of a skeleton which does not look like much but which has combat abilities of its own. The story of Skul: The Hero Slayer, told by a few rather scattered dialogues at the end of each world is quite superficial and just allows you to set the context of the confrontation between the dead and the living.

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