Richter of Nazareth

"Become the Richter"
Richter of Nazareth "ריכטר מנצרת" also known as the "Paladin of Fury" is an holy-themed hack-n-slash action adventure videogame. It is developed by Morandal Games and published by Bethesda, the same company that brought Fallout, Elder Scrolls and Doom. It is also meant to be inspired by the atmosphere of the Doom series, and also a spirtual successor to the Sony-exclusive hack-n-slash trilogy God of War, as their both hack-n-slash action games that revolve around mythologies.
==Plot==
"In the beginning... there was heaven and hell...."
A man, who was a prophet in the kingdom of Nazareth, leaves the kingdom to go down on his own mission, but he never came back. The man is said to be a prophet that always wanted to study the dark arts, but he wanted to do it in solitude to avoid getting anyone in panic.
Set during the 1300's, a mysterious rift of cultists rises out and attacks the kingdom of Nazareth, setting out pleas to their mainline god but fail and end to still darkness and evil. One man, nicknamed Daniel, decides to go all out on it in order to fight for his own soul and faith for his god. He falls to one of the black-and-red dressed soldiers, and is fainted by dark magic.
Daniel wakes up, trapped in a dungeon. Daniel then fights off several hooded soldiers via a bit of finesse and manages to escape. He is then confronted by God's angel, who has chosen him as the "God's Agent", the man who does and serves what his God wants for him. After accepting the pact, he gets the God's weapons and becomes dressed in paladin-like armor. Daniel, nicknamed the Richter, sets off on a mission to destroy the demons that the dark cult is sending out...
He travels through many cities, fighting off the cults and demons that they're throwing off, up to the 7 demons that represent the 7 deadly sins. Eventually, something executes him which throws him in the Devil's realm; the world of Hell, and the realm of Satan. Daniel wakes up in an dark purgatory that resembles a ruined realm. He tries to summon, only to realize that his Omnidenulum had already been stolen after he was executed by the enemy. Daniel, having no further choice, decides to descend on his own.
Daniel enters a room with a beautiful and colorful garden in it. He sees beautiful grass as opposed to the redstones, and other beautiful scenary enclosed in a holybrick chamber. Daniel was hungry and tired. He decides to go pick one of the fruit from the tree he saw to go eat it. However, upon trying to pick one them, he hears a hiss. A snake comes out of the tree, and then asks if Daniel is willing to have one of the fruit from the tree. Daniel, admitting his hungry decides to go eat one anyway, with the snake giving an provoking stare at him. The snake, as noted tries to tempt Daniel into going forth to eat the fruit from the tree as means of provoking his spirit away from the angels.
Daniel is unaware that the fruit the snake was tempting him was actually a decoy, a decoy with sleep pollen toxicated into one, because as soon Daniel took a bite and swallowed it, Daniel coughed and then fainted...
Daniel wakes up again, only trapped in a cage which is above the throne of Satan, which is indicated by a man-devil with dark armor. Satan's throne was indicated by the pentagram, the bane of the angels. Daniel, prays with all his might and skill, in order to try and get out, but it fails because the signal was being blocked. Daniel, tries to escape with his strength and power, and just with enough strength, he manages to pull out one of the bars and makes a jump, but accidently falls off the throne and is knocked into the lava.
Daniel wakes up again, in an heavenly bed. Daniel realizes that his Omnidenulum is still missing, but he is successfully rescued and revived by the "Bluhen" agent, nicknamed "Tobit". Tobit then introduces himself to Daniel, saying that he's an secondary agent sent by God to take down the forces, alongside the armies of the angels. Tobit also says that there's an third agent in progress, and they're battle units that will protect the world of Earth at all costs, no matter who pays it. Tobit, seeing that Daniel is missing his Omnidenulum, guides him to the armory to go borrow another one. Tobit says that the extra Omnidenulum is supposed to be for the third agent, meaning he'll have to return it as soon as the third agent gets recrutied. Tobit says that he has revived you via a angelic link which requires connections on both sides, with one connection being the sender, and the other being the receiver, because both links build enough force and power to sensor it's way through, which it in fact due to high microwave signals it does. 
Tobit and Daniel go on another mission, which they continue their job of fighting off the demons and protecting the towns. However, getting to the boiling point was a different story; they then confront an agent nicknamed Serket who claims to be an dark agent which demands support for the dark cult as well, because they give out power and wealth. Daniel turns that down, and begins to fight. After defeating Serket, she claims that there are 4 more agents in the process, and defeating all of these agents will create a backdoor to the gateway to Hell, so they could get revenge on Satan for payback. After thanking Serket for their help, Tobit and Daniel continue on the hunt on the remaining agents.
After hunting down the remaining agents, the duo aim to work together to build a gateway to Hell to duel the incarnation of Satan. 
==Gameplay==
As Daniel possesses the God's weapon, nicknamed the Omnidenulum, instead of pulling out weapons, he gets to summon them in an all similar fashion to the Armiger to Final Fantasy XV. For example, he can pull out the Balmung via regular attacks, or the Holy Bolts (as the equivalent of guns) through his hands. He can also summon angels to help him via the "Holy Call" which improves his attacks and adds more firepower to his magic. What stands out is that each angel he can call has different properties; whether it be augmenting his magic, sword, etc. He can change his bolts to many different types; ranging from fire, ice, and darkness. 
Bosses are done similar in fashion to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, where to finish off most of the bosses you have to do a quick-time finisher/purgatory warp, and if the player misses it (if their timing is off) the boss counters and regains 10% of their health and they must do it again. Some bosses would be more like puzzles and require you to destroy parts instead to defeat them.
What makes this game much more hardcore than Bayonetta/DmC is that normally without the use of angel summons and a few exceptions, your health never regenerates, but you can also pick up armor up to a maximum of 200% that mitigates damage to 1/4. Health's maximum is 2 bars. There's no currency unlike other games like this. There's no Witch Time equivalent, only the use of parries which requires timing and a quick-time event, but the parries are charge-based to be more realistic.
===Characters===
There are three characters, nicknamed Daniel, Tobit, and Naamah. What makes those characters different is their Omnidenulum, Daniel summons out a sword, Tobit summons an magic axe, and Naamah summons out a scythe. Each has their own combos and special battle gauge that makes them different. Daniel can berserk to unleash the God's weapon to punish evil, Tobit can summon the power of the elements to harness them in battle, and Naamah, with the power of the Reaper be able to summon dark glyphs to destroy her enemies.
===Difficulty Settings===
After you beat the game once, you get to choose a new game playing either Daniel, Tobit or Naamah.
Difficulty Name	Description 	Adjustments
Casual 	Meant for players that want to experience the story 	Enemies are slower, etc.
Normal 	Meant for players experienced with action gameplay. 	None
Hard 	Meant for more pro players that want an actual challenge. 	Enemies are more aggresive, etc
Hell 	This is the hardest difficulty setting, meant for pro players. 	Enemies' formation change, and enemies can kill you in seconds if you're careless
===Angels===
Angels are summons that Daniel can call to help him. Each angel has different abilities.
Magic Name	Description 	Ability
Calypso 	An angel that brings hope to the soul within.	Heals Daniel from his wounds in battle 
 	 	
 	 	
===Magics===
The Magics are the equivalent of guns. Each one shoots seperately compared to the others.
Magic Name 	Description 	Bullet type
Holy Bolts 	Ranged bolts that smite evil. 	Ranged gunfire
Magic Missile	Heavy missiles that seek your enemy 	Homing blasts
Aura 	Magical bullets that ricochet around the field	Large blue ricochet
Justice 	Magical starlights that strike the enemy 	Holy crosses that beam light
===Nova===
The Nova jewels are augments to Daniel's balmung.
===Trinity===
The Trinity gear are accessories to Daniel himself.
==Stages==
These are a list of stages in Richter of Nazareth. There are 22 chapters in this game, each with a similar platforming style to Super Mario Odyssey.
Chapter Name 	Description	Length
1: Strange Occurrance 	 	
2: Awakening 	 	
3: The War  	 	
4: 	 	
5: 	 	
6 	 	
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10: The Gates of Hell 	 	
11: Second Chance 	 	
12: The Right Turn 	 	
13: The New Threat 	 	
14: The City of Gomorrah 	 	
15: Shadow of Bethlehem 	 	
16: Tinkering the Wheel 	 	
17: What Was Missing 	 	
18: Satan's Henchman 	 	
19: The Way We Tread 	 	
20: Breaking Point 	 	
21: Satan's Reckoning 	 	
22: The Battle of the Evils	 	
==Achievements==
(TBA)
==Reception==
Richter of Nazareth has gotten mixed to positive reception but highly positive reception from players. It got 60s to 70s on Metacritic, an 6.6/10 from IGN, an 7/10 on GameSpot. Jim Sterling gave it an 8.8/10, while praising for it's solid performance engine, modding tools for custom missions called WADS, originality, etc. 
On Miiverse, popular posts include;
*Fanart/screenshots of the game
*"God of War: Hebrew Edition" (Richter of Nazareth, because of it's timeline and synopsis, is described as an hack-n-slash with similar elements to God Of War and Doom, God of War focuses on Greek mythology while Richter focuses on Hebrew mythology.
*"The Holy Reaper confirmed" (The third playable character, Naamah is an holy reaper armed with an Omnidenulum which summons out an scythe)
*"SPEEDY SOULS" (Richter of Nazareth is sometimes referred to as Speedy Souls because the combat is fast-paced that if you're not careful you can die in seconds)
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