Valdis Story: Abyssal City

The art and the crafted world you are dropped into is compelling, and the game plays well. There are a lot of classic flavors in the game, but it feels quite fresh and all comes together quite nicely. If you see the pictures, and the video and think “I might like that” then get it.

I have been trying to do this game three times, and I am giving up for now, it is too frustrating. Though this game has nice graphics, great music and promising RPG elements with interesting story, the gameplay quickly becomes awful. The protagonist is slow, becomes stunned after every hit (even for 1HP damage hits), the evade doesn't work all times, battle are quite chaotics. I am pretty used to metroidvania games but here, even in the easiest difficulty, I struggle against bosses, often dying at least one time. I just wanted to enjoy the good arts and story, but the game won't let me...

When it comes to games I thinkt it is better that the game is great at one thing than mediocre at several. Because that one great thing can then carry the game and become its focus while the less good things are ignored. If a game only have mediocre parts then it becomes forgettable. This is a game in the later category. It has all the parts that makes up a good metroidvania game. But none of them are made particularly well and I get the feel that many things were only added because the developers read that this kind of games are expected to have a lvl up system or a crafting system, without understanding why or what makes them good. Combat: is floaty and unresponsive. You feel that you have a limited array of options and just smashing attack works almost always. You can just heal all damage you take anyhow. Enemies respawn eveytime you enter a new area and you dont feel like lvl ups or enemy loot maters. Combat against normal enemies becomes a chore. Combat vs bosses: Bosses are different in that they can actually harm you and drops good stuff. You get better rewards the better you do against the boss, which is a terrible idea as it generates victory/loss cascades in the long run. Against bosses you have to use more complicated strategies and moves. Which reveals how bad those extra moves are implemented. Like why do i have to push down and then a direction to dash instead of just a single button like every other game ever? And why does that button combo only work sometimes? Same with spells to a lesser extent. It feels like its random if I take damage. Did I fail or did the game screw me over? Exploration: You have a big map to explore and you have to come back to places once you have unlocked more movement options just like other metroidvanias. You randomly walk around and find new powers. Then a popup will show up at some doors explaining that the powerup you found in a random chest can somehow open it. They know what parts the game needs but not why.

Is this with ne newest update or only the version from Release there is no hint if there games are with updates :(. sry for that but I'm new here.

I put maybe 2-3 hours into this game before uninstalling. I played on the "hard" difficulty and hit my first ridiculous difficulty spike in "the hallows" I believe it was called. I was level 8 when I got to this area and suddenly the game decides to throw two big armor guys at me with regening health, that constantly revive/heal the small flying angels, that also deal large amounts of damage. Meanwhile my health is constantly ticking down because its cold or something. All of this in a small area. I couldn't take it after dying about 30 times. I don't mind if a game is hard, but this is just stupid. I guess I could grind a few more levels to see how well I could fair, but I really shouldn't have to.