Posted on: June 12, 2022
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Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 111 Rezensionen: 6
3 well-earned stars, but nothing more
It is very difficult to rate this game. If you compare The Messenger to Ninja Gaiden on the SEGA Master System, which it so clearly copies, it falls through with 1 star. The levels in the first part are boring, repetitive and does not giver a good challenge. If you look at The Messenger for what it is, a ninja 2D platformer released around 2018, it gets 5 stars simply because there is nothing to match this style now. So 3 stars it is. Very minor spoilers ahead. The game is split into two parts. The first part is easy and if the devs would take some time to strenghten the levels and add some more bosses, it could have passed as it's own game and it would have been a good game if not a very good game. It tries to copy what Ninja Gaiden did perfect on the SEGA Master System and to my knowledge no other game has done since. Perhaps the game could have been split into different parts, save games disabled and "lives" as you know it from the old games, i.e. Mario, with a Game Over feature would have been nice. The second part of the game is a mess. It is sort of a RPG platformer hybrid, that does not work very well, because it lacks effort. You are not guided and the level design is one big mess. You have the Unity go-fund-yourself platforming template map as you will find in every other Unity platformer and a cryptic messages about items you have to find. I did not finish the second part of the game, not because I did not want to, but simply because early on, I was told about an item (which I now realize must be some sort of end game item) which I went and fetched, used and ended up in with a game breaking save in which I could not complete the level and could not backtrack beyond the last save point. I did invest some time trying to figure this out and to my knowledge there was no way around it and I had to delete the save. If the devs had respected the genre some more and less of the ironic humor, The Messenger would have been a solid game.
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