Posted on: March 25, 2021
terry309
Verified ownerGames: 176 Reviews: 5
A game for masochists
Ys The Oath In Felghana isn't a fun experience, it's an ordeal. You don't play this game to have fun, you play it to prove that you have skill. Every single boss in this game is designed to be as frustrating and annoying as possible. Expect a lot of cheap deaths from bosses who spam nigh unavoidable bullet hell attacks at you that you can handly avoid due to the lack of a dodge button and even when you get something close to a dodge later on in the game you usually end up spamming it madly all the time because you pretty much have to in order to avoid getting hit. Oh and don't take getting hit lightly, there's no healing items in this game, not because the game was designed to be played without them since they were in Ark Of Napishtim, the developers just decided to remove them to alienate people who aren't masochists, so if you get hit too much in the first phase, you are better off suiciding since you will die, there's too much to avoid to not die. It's a matter of how much you can survive before you do die. So have fun trying to kill yourself so that the retry option shows up. Honestly in a game like this I would have like a suicide option so that I can just stab myself and retry immediately because the bosses are HP sponges and have phases that are so mind-numbingly boring that only exist to waste your time. For example, there's a dragon boss later on in the game that just sits there and bits the air in front of him, he doesn't do anything else until you wipe out 1000 or so hp. Only then does the boss actually start using moves. This game loves to throw multiple phases at you to mess you up. The thing is, if you die, you have to sit through the earlier phases again and those phases are so tedious to get through. Don't think the combat is worth the hassle though, you mash the attack button , run and jump, maybe spam a spell, thats it. 1 star for the music, not as good as pc engine version though 2 star for the masochists that will play this game.
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