Posted on: January 12, 2024
saracoth
Verified ownerGames: 671 Reviews: 4
Solid
Played version 1.3 with Echo of Chains update. Took me about 26 hours to 100% it. Tremendous respect for the devs. Several times I thought I was cheesing some mechanic only to find that it was intentional. Great balance of exploring new areas and collecting goodies in old ones. Great pacing overall. Kept me engaged every day until I completed it. Difficulty is good. There's some challenging platforming in places, but nothing I had to bang my head against for hours. A few bosses I had to attempt a few times, but again nothing terrible. And each time you die, you gain a special currency that can be used to reduce the difficulty of a boss or the game in general. Between the feeling of constant progression and the customizable difficulty, I feel like the game respects its players time. Constant backtracking isn't essential to proceed, but I felt rewarded for doing it early as opposed to collecting several abilities before doing fewer, bigger sweeps of old areas. I think either style should work. Good metroidvanias make revisits feel different than your first pass, and the mix of movement and combat abilities do a good job of showing how much more powerful you've become. It may not be a game I come back to and replay, or one which changes how I view the genre, but it executes its concept well. Time and money well spent for me.
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