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Josh Journey: Darkness Totems

Josh Journey: Darkness Totems

Released: 10/6/2022

Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay. The Province World is infested by the nightmare monsters from the Dream World. The Darkness Shadow, the entity that controls the Dark Side of Dreams, are sending his creatures and implanting Darkness Totems to control the four main provinces: Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. The main objective of our heroes are to fight against these evil forces, destroying the Totems to bring again the peace and harmony to their World. Each hero in Josh Journey has unique skills, to attack face to face, using sword or hammer, or to attack from distance, using magic or gunfire. You can choose between four heroes during a local gameplay with your friends! – Swap Heroes quickly during gameplay, providing Massive Combos in battle! – All characters with traditional 2D hand-drawn animation! – Build Ability Board to make special attacks during the battles. – Explore beautiful and big environments with great parallax in different provinces, like Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. – A huge cast of cute and creepy enemies with different behaviors and attacks. – Epic battles with Big Bosses.

Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay. The Province World is infested by the nightmare monsters from the Dream World. The Darkness Shadow, the entity that controls the Dark Side of Dreams, are sending his creatures and implanting Darkness Totems to control the four main provinces: Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. The main objective of our heroes are to fight against these evil forces, destroying the Totems to bring again the peace and harmony to their World. Each hero in Josh Journey has unique skills, to attack face to face, using sword or hammer, or to attack from distance, using magic or gunfire. You can choose between four heroes during a local gameplay with your friends! – Swap Heroes quickly during gameplay, providing Massive Combos in battle! – All characters with traditional 2D hand-drawn animation! – Build Ability Board to make special attacks during the battles. – Explore beautiful and big environments with great parallax in different provinces, like Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. – A huge cast of cute and creepy enemies with different behaviors and attacks. – Epic battles with Big Bosses.

Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay. The Province World is infested by the nightmare monsters from the Dream World. The Darkness Shadow, the entity that controls the Dark Side of Dreams, are sending his creatures and implanting Darkness Totems to control the four main provinces: Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. The main objective of our heroes are to fight against these evil forces, destroying the Totems to bring again the peace and harmony to their World. Each hero in Josh Journey has unique skills, to attack face to face, using sword or hammer, or to attack from distance, using magic or gunfire. You can choose between four heroes during a local gameplay with your friends! – Swap Heroes quickly during gameplay, providing Massive Combos in battle! – All characters with traditional 2D hand-drawn animation! – Build Ability Board to make special attacks during the battles. – Explore beautiful and big environments with great parallax in different provinces, like Wind, Water, Desert and Industrial. – A huge cast of cute and creepy enemies with different behaviors and attacks. – Epic battles with Big Bosses.

Critics
60
Steam
89

Score Breakdown

60.0

Critic Average

1 reviews

89

Steam User Score

28 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
N/A
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
N/A

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)