Introducing: Levels
:: "The space is silent. So much that it causes anguish. The silence—ash-grey, relentless—crawls within you, hurts you, eats your synthetic skull from the inside. There is only deafening pain, and the heartbeat, and your footsteps, and the rare echoes of something massive moving. Something inconceivable, among the mountains of concrete and steel." ::Irid Novo, an abandoned space station you will be trapped on in Hellpoint, is massive. 14 huge interconnected levels await to be explored, each with its own distinctive visual features, unique monsters, and various puzzles to solve. Each level is hundreds of meters wide and some of the levels are hundreds of meters tall, reaching the height compared to that of the Eiffel tower. Let's have a look at just a few of them.
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In the Pond, human passengers that were arriving at Irid Novo, the frontier of mankind's science, were being separated from their bodies and then put back together after interstellar travels. ---
This is where it all begins. The Irid Novo AI, the Author, uses a 3D body printer to create the Spawn whose role you take.
This area is a "warm" welcome to the dark and twisted sci-fi universe, with narrow corridors, secret passages, and malevolent creatures lurking behind almost every corner. You will have to learn how to find your way around the station, heal, and use your weapons.
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The Observatory is a multi-purpose amphitheater, used for scientific congregations that would end with the masses entering trance all over the Irid Novo station, unaware of the willpower they were relinquishing to the soon-to-arrive cosmic gods. It was also used for mind control conferences, occult modern art performances and attuning musical symphonies.---
The Observatory is one giant open area that will serve as your safe haven. Here you will be able to, among other things, craft and dismantle weapons and upgrade your healing method.
You will encounter no enemies here, except for the level itself. Taming the deadly verticality will let you uncover secrets and be generously rewarded.
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For many years, Port Issoudun remained the most active space port of the Irid Novo station. Hundreds of ships and tankers would dock here to land passengers or offload resources. All of the port systems were entirely automated. Like carefully constructed clocks, self-programmed bots zoomed around the environment in straight lines to bring items and transits to their destinations. From the main terminal, various highways lead to other parts of the station.After the Merge ended the Universe as we know it, the port was ravaged by the hordes of monsters intending to capture the whole station. Issoudun has long since been resting in ruins: dead, cut off from power and cleared from any human activity. The most unfortunate humans remain active as Merge Victims, roaming in the area in eternal fear and confusion, assaulting anyone in sight. Some of the automated bots still function, faithful to their original orders.
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Port Issoudun is featured in the playable sequel chapter to Hellpoint, The Thespian Feast. This area, dimly lit, is enclosed for the most part and features less deadly platforming yet more enemies and mini-bosses wandering its claustrophobic corridors.
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Before the Merge, the Arcology was a mega-colony built inside the space station to accommodate 118 000 inhabitants that came along for the voyage. This was definitely one of the most prestigious places to live back then, with thousands of advanced homes and buildings dashing across the stars at speeds faster than light. It was one of the greatest centers of thought exchanges and hard work, and definitely a place to go looking for a good time. The Arcology was built to be entirely self-sufficient and space efficient, seamlessly merging the utility, public and residential systems while fully utilizing 3D space to a sometimes very dense degree. This resulted in a great flow and interweaving of the construction of shapes and districts.Thus, the Merge made this place the biggest sudden cemetery on Irid Novo. However, not many cadavers remain, as the Parasites and the Daemonium promptly grabbed the bodies and carried them to their lairs to consume the flesh, furthering their own interests. The remaining survivors were taken by insanity and each met their particular end. Their stories can be read in blood sprayed all over this area.
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With a lot of open spaces, the Arcology offers a solid challenge in battling several foes, both ranged and melee, at once. The huge funicular connects this district with other sections of Irid Novo.
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