![]() ![]() Periodically fires a lifesteal laser at the player, completely restoring all Guardians’ healths if it hits.Stays far offscreen, firing healing orbs rapidly at the other Guardians.Attacks that cannot be reflected will instead cause the player’s armor to break instantly.All projectiles have a 90% chance to reflect, flying back at the player with twice the velocity.Repeatedly fires a circular spread of 32 Holy Spears.Shoots huge Flaming Boulders from its head every 0.33 seconds.If the Archmage is present anywhere in the world, the Guardians will enrage and immediately fly at him, using various attacks until he dies.Īttacks The Guardian Defender (Rock Guardian) If the player exits the Underground for more than 5 seconds during the fight, the Rock and Crystal guardians will spin while rapidly converging on the player’s location, similar to how King Slime attacks during nighttime. The fiery main Guardian is immune to all damage until the rock Guardian and the crystal Guardian are defeated. But in shooting for Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I and II, they may have ended up with Chinese Democracy: an over-long, repetitive record whose derivative-and only occasionally inspired-second volume makes a compelling case for less is more.All three Profaned Guardians spawn at the same time. The first installment arrived in April of this year, and all 20 tracks across the two releases have corresponding video and digital visualizers, part of Profound Mysteries’ “expanded creative universe.” You can understand why Röyksopp wanted to make such a grandstanding move after declaring themselves done with album releases back in 2014. Profound Mysteries is designed as a particularly grandiose project. “Oh, Lover” has the opulent Nordic melancholy of Röyksopp’s best pop collaborations, combining dilatory synth, chugging disco groove, and Susanne Sundfør’s wind-swept vocals the result is like weeping away your heartbreak in a chic Norwegian aparthotel. The crunchy trip-hop drums and melodic curlicues of opener “Denimclad Baboons” sound like a nod to “Eple,” their sparkling second single, whose apple-fresh sound garnered 1,001 TV appearances and ad placements in the early 2000s. The best moments on Profound Mysteries II come when Röyksopp run truer to themselves than to their influences. Then their collaborative mini album with Robyn, 2014’s Do It Again, revealed the duo as inventive and empathetic producers of electronic pop, flexing their trademark synth melodies just enough to allow the Swedish pop star’s vocals to shine. Their debut album, Melody A.M., transcended well-worn, chilled-out electronica with fantastically bendy melodic textures and unusual vocal guests, including Norwegian softie Erlend Øye. This is a shame, because at their best, Röyksopp were never about empty tropes. “Some Resolve” is a vast sentimental soufflé it flops when it comes out of the oven, the electro-prog layering doing little to disguise a boring chord sequence. “Tell Him,” which features one of two appearances by Norwegian vocalist Susanne Sundfør, is a string-led plod, containing lyrics that write emotional checks the music can’t cash. “Remembering the Departed” bets the farm on the kind of forlorn, piano-scale banalities that wan boys used to play at parties in the days before Tinder. The heroically mopey melody of “Sorry,” featuring the ANOHNI-lite croon of Jamie Irrepressible, suggests Depeche Mode, but with all the deviant sex removed by deed poll.ĭisappointing as this is, these three songs resemble 1970s Stevie Wonder in their invention and style compared to the trio of chill-out clichés that close Profound Mysteries II. It’s also unlikely that they’d prefer the awkwardly rehashed low-cal techno of “Control” over Adamski and Seal’s house classic “Killer,” whose stately keyboard tones it commandeers. However open Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland might be about their inspirations, it is hard to imagine a circumstance in which a sentient listener would choose the clunky rhyme schemes and silver-polished rave pop of “Unity” over Meat Beat Manifesto’s evergreen hardcore belter “Radio Babylon,” which it references in the drums and clipped vocal sample. ![]()
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