Posted on: June 22, 2024
Ahmn
Verified ownerGames: 278 Reviews: 111
Flawed but unique gem
Weak 4. Not a typical platformer. Not at all like Limbo except the use of sillhouettes. Main strength is the intense combat where you typically find yourself fighting hard just to survive. Beautiful scenery as well and a great immersive soundtrack. The story is minimalistically told but does its thing. Puzzles are mostly physics based platformer puzzles. Found the game challenging but not overly difficult. Flaws: Movement at times wobbly. Can be annoying as the game requires a lot of precision. Menus barely work. Lots of weird decisions with the menus and when trying the change key bindings the game crashed. Once i pressed L1 by accident and restarted the game from the beginning. Quickly alt+f4 before it autosaved. The game at times fails to communicate what is going on. E g during the first boss fight, a rope hangs from a tree. A few minutes i tried my best to use that rope to escape, as the boss creatures had been portrayed as impossible to defeat in combat until that point. The rope is just graphics though. Small things like that. I think a better game design is to more clearly show what is needed without spelling it out. Wouldn't surprise me if some people wast like 20 min trying to find ways to escape using the rope. Which is a lot in a 2 hour game. Sometimes annoying random deaths due to how physics based the game is. E g some stone just bounces around, collides with another stone and drops onto your head. Some deaths feel truly random which leaves a poor taste. Checkpoints are never far though and the positives of the more sandboxy platformer feeling outwheigh the negatives. Short. 2 hours. Still, very enjoyable. Recommend it but beware that a lot of people seem to struggle with the difficulty. Just proceed cautiously. Dont run head in as if playing Diablo 2. Its more like Unto the end but with cute magic animal graphics.
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