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Saw this on Splattercat - seemed like lots of evil-fun, so I bought it. For the first few hours, this was great fun. But then... if there has ever been a game that needed a mapping facility, this is it. This games becomes a memory test. For some that will be fine, I imagine. The idea seems to have been that as you gain new abilities, you can go back and re-explore a bit. But coupling that with maps where the routes are tricky, and it is easy to miss things, meaning you have to look around. and then adding in portals all over the place that can lead you pretty much all the way back to the start of the game... does not seem to work out well. For me the problem is that getting to the next level/ part, if often tricky. You can easily miss things. Now, that would be fine... you just look around, right? Except that you can end up going quite far back (i.e. you get lost)... at which point you had better have a really good memory of which portal takes you where, and which sub-map contains routes to where. At this point, I've given up. I spent more than an hour wandering around, most of it just trying to get un-lost. The 2 options seem to be to get be to remember everywhere you have been, along with quite a few routes... or to get me some graph paper, and get busy. And I am not going to do that. I am sure the game-devs have those maps. They could include them if they felt like it. Oh well.

i always repeat that efforts to do something new should be rewarded. this is such a huge shame big studios are just abusing existing IPs and genres. considering the fact i am gaming for 25-30 years now (sic!), it's not easy to impress or entertain me, but this game is awesome. highly recommended.

I agree with "AYC8I0IaHnPhDdeY". This is the best game that I have played in 2020. And I was mid "Amid Evil" (Another fantastic game) when I was watching a "Let's Play" on YouTube (Mathas on YouTube). But it looked like so much fun so I bought it immediately -- and it does NOT disappoint!! I have been gaming since at least 1976 or 1977. Definitely hit my stride in the 80's. And this game is a very special game. And I am sorry, this game is only 112MB??? I understand why (I am a professional programmer), but seriously this 112MB game has : 1. Gameplay which extremely fluid and responsive (Full disclosure: I am playing with a controller) 2. Remarkable sprite graphics. 3. Pretty good atmospheric sound effects and music. Nothing earthshattering but good. Really it is like one of the old greats in size but plays like a very smooth and modern game! Now I did run into a bug in which the game did not really autosave my progress after a couple of hours but I was having so much fun that I did not even care (basically it looked like it could not sync up with GOG.com. But it really wasn't a problem: after 1.5 hours, I was right back where I left off at!) And the backtracking is not really that odious in my opinion. I am glad that there is no map or any real handholding other than the beginning instructions. You can step right into it and start causing mayhem! This game is just awesome and I am having a blast playing it! Definitely my Game of the Year!!

It looked interesting and I was sure it would be a good game, but I didn't know how much I would end up loving it. It's tons of fun, beautiful pixel art graphics, and very smooth controls. I'm really impressed!

I can definitely recommend this game to every fan of 2D action games! Moving around as a monster is so much fun (and of course: killing people :D) and even looks great, the game feels very unique and plays fluently. In the course of the game you gain abilities that you can use in certain places where your path was blocked before. There's a lot of levers and switches that open doors, some of them are a little tricky to reach but it's never too hard to guess how. The only issue is the lack of a map, so you may have to use your memory and do some backtracking. The game autosaves very often and in my opinion, there are enough savepoints, so it's very fair in that regard! If you like the screenshots, buy this game - You will not regret it!