Code Z Review (PS5) – Looking for the deaths

Death End Re: Quest is a series from Compile Heart about survival. If you take a wrong step in one of the previous games, you will reach a death in which you have to return to your last savings and find a new way to victory. Death End Re: Quest: Code Z is the latest title in the franchise and focuses on a more roguel -like system with randomized dungeons.

Game name: Death End Re; Quest: code z
Platform (s): Nintendo Switch, PS5 (checked)
Developer: Heart Compilation Heart
Verlag (s): Idea Factory International
Appearance date: May 13, 2025
Price: $ 49.99

Death End Re: Quest: Code Z had you in the shoes of Sayaka Hiwatari. It is what is known as Lauden, a program with AI that comes quite close to a person. It is constantly thrown into variety areas to search for characters from the death and quest series of the death. After you have found them, you have to go backwards in the dungeon to get out of intact with you and the character.

The good

This is a brilliant concept for a death game. The ability to cross dungeons with a variety of enemies and traps and then die to them to get a death was phenomenal. I actively walked around the game and tried to die normally to the enemies until I decided that it was better to do only one expert run, as it would be much easier to achieve death. This is a game that makes it more exciting, but it is also worthwhile to deal with expert difficulties.

The crossing of dungeons feels similar to Shiren The Wanderer, whereby every movement you carry out and the action that you essentially take as an action. Each action makes an enemy take an action, whether this moves, attacks or even activated. You can randomize objects and skills around the dungeon. You can add skills to your weapon or even passive status.

Every time you achieve a unique death, you get a special skill point with which you can make Sayaka stronger. You can increase your basic statistics such as ATK, DEF or HP early with individual skills. Getting a stronger basis constantly helps, even if you can climb.

The balance of random objects can sometimes be annoying, especially if you try to get a good number of ethercodes. Fortunately, you have an article store where you can buy consumables that are reset every time you return from a dungeon.

The bad

Death End Re: Quest: Code Z has a fairly simple story in which the occupation of The Death End Re: Quest series brought a brand new face and then find out the world itself. That means you need a while to give very basic answers to Sayakas questions because you don't want to reveal too much, and it can feel like you are avoiding any question. Someone who was familiar with the tradition of how I was a little angry that he identifies so many questions that are already evident from the previous games. Simple traditions like who are Ludens and what makes them special is not announced up to several chapters in the game, although Sayaka always asks about it.

The article inventory capacity is annoying. I have already mentioned that ether code elements are important for the reason mechanic. With such a low capacity limit, however, it is quite annoying to stick to objects that you may need to use consistently. I usually wait to use an ether code when I find a new one in the dungeon, but I don't always have this luxury.

There are many drawn CG scenes in this game, which is great. However, not many of them were for the death. A good part of the scenes of the end of death is reused with only different taste text or effects of art.

The judgment

Death End Re; Quest: Code Z is a great design for the series with a few defects in its execution. The capacity limit could be revised and the Skill tree could be added to the skill tree, but overall I had a pleasant time with the game, and exploring the larger dungeons after the first dungeons was extremely satisfactory and difficult. It would not matter to me to recommend this game if you want to try it out, but I think the story of the first game worked better with the premise than this.

Death RE; Quest: code zwill be Start worldwide on Steam in 2025! The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game will start physically and digitally in North America and digital in Europe on May 13, 2025. The game will start physically in Europe on June 27, 2025.

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