Greak: Memories of Azur

The combat is easy, the puzzles are simple. It's still fun though, but I will not play it again like I would do with a good game. It give you about 7 hours of entertainment, and that's it.

The game is pretty cool, the art is beautiful, the music too, the animations are great, the only downside is that the game game is too short, in my opinion the ending was left open but close as well, it`s open for a future sequel where they could return to Azur to erradicate the plague but also could mean an end of the saga if the sales don't go well and the team understand that doesn't compensate to create one. In any case it was fun to play, there ain't much replay value, unless you want all achievements, there's an recommendation that for best experience you should have a controller, in my opinion the game goes damn well on mouse and keyboard, the only thing you can't do is assign mouse buttons other than M1/M2 and M3, unless you change the macro on your mouse for other buttons to act as keyboard buttons. The Boss fights can seem a bit annoying at first but like every platform game they follow a pattern, and you always have enough time to regroup or do the action you want with whatever character, a shame the most cool character is introduced in the end which is not far from the begining (lmao). I say that because there's even an achievement that you earn for beat in 3 hours or less. Also the last boss is too weak in terms of mechanics, all you have to do is regroup behind him when he goes to corner and kill him without problems, this ain't a critic at all its good to see a plataform action game that won't take your HP for simply touch the enemy, but he could be harder like the ones that came before him. Also was cool to see Raydel drowning when he jumps in water, a detail that many games don't think about, he can't swim cuz his armor is too heavy, there's even a dialog mentioning about the weight of his armor, anyway i won't continuing pointing aspects of the game because it won't have space to do so, the game focus on puzzles mostly, the fight is decent even not being the main aspect. But i really hope for a sequel, it was a worthy game to play.

Greak: Memories of Azur is a stunning and fun 2D side scroller game. The artwork is stunning and score was pleasant and complemented the artwork and story through-out the game. It had a good story that compelled the sentiment of current state of the main characters race, the Courines, and what is needed to be accomplished. You start out with Greak and eventually get the two other characters who join you. Once you have all three it reminds me of a old classic like The Lost Vikings. Each character has their own strengths and skills which will help you progress through the map. This can be challenging but is a fun dynamic and a nice change from just powering through a map. Movement over tricky terrain can be difficult if you keep all three together but is easier if you just use one character at a time. I would also solo boss battles with the character of my choice instead of the whole party. Remember, just because you can use all three doesn't always mean you should. I had to change the default button mapping to customize my tastes and recommend doing the same. Once I had it set to something I liked it was easy to get used to. My only complaint for the game is that it wasn't long enough. Not because it was extremely short but that it was fun to play and I could have gone for a bit more play time. A different replay-ability settings would be nice as well. All and all a great game to add to the collection!

The hand drawn graphics were indeed good, but I soon had to quit this unfortunately. Right near the start there was a bit which demanded you press space, E and D at the same time, or in sequence....... but it was just beyond my fingers to do so. It says at the start, "controller recommended". Well, it's essential by the looks of it....... So with a controller probably a nice side scroller fighting / platformer. Unfortunately being stuck with keyboard I can't really try it out properly.

Games keeps confusing controller inputs for keyboard inputs and doing the wrong actions. Makes this quite unplayable with a controller which, funnily enough, is the recommended way to play it.