Blades of Time

Treasure hunter Ayumi returns in a new adventure. This time she uses a magic orb in a Guild HQ to travel to the volcanic Dragonland. Here, she must travel the Path to find the treasure of The Dragon Temple. But things aren't that simple. Dragonlands are a land rife with conflict, where different powers struggle for dominance. The game is a hack'n'slash platformer with a bigTPS component. Ayumi uses her swords to build up Rage, which can be used to cast one of 3 spells- fire, ice of force/ground pound. After the intro level, you also unlock the power to rewind time- but unlike Sands of Time, it's not an undo button. Rather, Ayumi rewinds the world around her, spawning a clone that performs her past actions, while she is free to act in a different way. She can spawn these in an ongoing fashion, increasing her damage output- this is necessary to beat some hardened enemies, and also to solve some puzzles that require multiple buttons to be pressed at once. The levels are varied, each one with its own gimmicks, and the enemy roster is varied as well. The story is simple, but has some fun twists. Writing is cliched, but fun. Gameplay is quick and exciting. The balance goes out the window if you find the hidden chest with a gatling gun, but that just keeps the game from getting tedious. There's some lore collectibles, but the levels are linear, so there isn't much replayability here. Very much a product of its time, but the game's got some neat ideas, and the gameplay's better than X-blades. Worth a play.

Lovely game, won me over in the first minute when I saw how high the protagonist can jump. Overall incredible gameplay and fluidity, you have a lot of equipment to choose from and find new equipment regularly, the compass part was just a tad bit confusing. The story could've been more complex, that is its only flaw, if you like slower games then avoid this one, it is an absolute chaos you'll love to play through if you love adrenaline.

The game is fun. Mainly button mashing and combos with a few unique mechnics such as the rewinding time. The only issues I have is when it sometimes buggs out and will randomly spam your special abilities. It was only an issue on the final boss for me. Although that could just be because it was a console port and doesn't play as well with mouse and keyboard. Overall give it a try fun chill time.

I played this game years ago in my ps3, then when i moved on to pc i saw this game, then grabbed it. Its very different game, with that time mechanic. Both base game and dlc are great

The game does not contribute anything to the genre, some moments are very irritating due to their clumsiness. The combat system is almost successful ;/