Volgarr the Viking

This is a incredibly difficult game, the kind of the old school difficulty, the kind that puts hair on your chest. So of course it has a completely bullshit save system and no options to adjust difficulty or how saves or checkpoints work. This game really needs those things. Unless you're looking for a old school difficult (ultra bullshit hard) platformer stay far away from this game.

So, what's the problem with this one ? Well, first, let's talk about what's good in it : - Very nice and colorful graphism - An interesting and intuitive, minimalistic health system - Quite a good feeling to handle So what's the problem ? Lots of people talk about the difficulty of this game. I'd say it's more like you have a pattern, a very precise pattern you have to respect through all the level, if you don't want to die. There's really little freedom, you can't improvise, you can't find other strategies. You just have to : 1.know the level 2.have very good reflexes As it quicly becomes a very difficult pattern to follow, I gave up.

Lack of savepoints and clunky moving kills the game. Shame, it started really strong but after some time it gets really annoying. With that much plalforming and jumping into unknown moving should be spotless and saving more sensible

Playing portions of the same level potentially dozens of times is not enjoyable. Even if the game's sprites, animations, controls and music are all done well.

Völgarr is at no point unfair, the control scheme doesn't change midjump, you know what button to press, and what Völlgarr will do. So, if you die in this game, it's your fault alone. Besides, the controls are as responsive as they can come. If you like challenging jump'n runs or games like ghouls & goblins. This game is for you. Just be prepared, and that`s the only point all those negative views are correct on. The game won't give you savestates nor alot of checkpoints. But thats part of the reason i like this game as much as i do.