Lost Ruins

I really like the game. Graphics, gameplay, style... But... Under linux is a roulette. You are happy doing whatever a school girl with a long sword can do, and the game crashes. Crashes... And do a blank screen on your frozen computer. Testing under Wayland and Xorg, at fullscreen and window. First game where i see that, so at the end you are forced to do a REISUB to close ALL. Not recomended. Sad, because the game can be really good. PD: Sorry for my english, is not my natural language.

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You have to talk with other gamers to learn that you get locked out of the best ending upon opening any one of numerous treasure chests scattered throughout the dungeon. What kind of horrible design decision is that? There IS a character who you meet who assigns you the ascetic achievement of not opening any "golden chests," but the treasure chests throughout the environment look cream-colored, not golden at all, and there is no indication that upholding this achievement should be done by anyone other than veteran players just looking for an optional challenge. Whoever decided that this parody of a quest should actually play a crucial role in the story should have been fired, especially given how the chests bear game-changing items like a tool that grants passive MP regen while equipped, a poisoned dagger, and an HP vampirism spell. Other than that, the art is decent, although the idle animation of the protagonist looks awkward, if its silky smoothness wasn't so fascinating. The music and sounds are fine. I do like how there are zero experience points and that everything is based on equipment. It surprised me how much the game is focused on status effects; for example, there's a literal Toilet Paper item whose sole purpose is to wipe yourself of oil and water. If you're about to face a fire-element enemy, then you want to be wet, but not in a situation involving electricity. As a result, there's a lot of menu-paging to go through your consumables per encounter; melee is tricky with slow, un-cancel-able swings/stabs, but item drops are generous, so the game teaches you to not be stingy with what you've got. While the save points don't recover your HP/MP, some non-chest items also do provide HP regen, though one requires you to be wet. Sadly, the game is ruined by teenage-level writing. The Heroine's only trait is gullibility, some characters are overly and needlessly sadistic, and the plot is nonsensical, if not entirely trope-derived. I'd just watch it on YT.

I don't know what happened. Its version in Linux is more heavy than the Windows (with proton 7.0). Developers must fix it. Anyway I love this plataform game.

This game easily has the worst controls of any Metroidvania I've played, making it frustrating to play in the worst way possible. Who thought it was a good idea for making midair attacks stop your movement entirely? No short hops by tapping jump instead of holding it? So many other issues I ran into in such a short period of time, I can't continue it. It's such a shame because the game is great visually.