9 Years of Shadows

The game is decent and I rather enjoyed the pixel grafics. However, both gameplay and discovering the map are rather easy, so I consider this a game for beginners of the genre.

Nice history, amazing gameplay, all game art and music is beautifull <3 i love it.

I grew up gaming. I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600 era and I stay up to date on current systems. With that qualifier, I'd like to say this game has an overall fantastic feel. Old school metroid style gameplay with a facinating story and beatuiful art style. What I don't like about the game is how you will be locked in to a very difficult boss fight with no way to go back and gain any power ups. The boss fights are very challenging and if you run out of light power and miss the quick recharge action, like I do every time practically, the only way to get back the light bolt is to hug the floating teddy bear for a few seconds, which is quite difficult to do in the middle of a boss fight. Get hit once or twice, all your light power is gone and all hope of damaging the boss. Listen, if I wanted to play a souls game, I'd be playing a souls game. I like story and a bit of a challenge without the hateful torture of a souls game. This game needs a difficulty system. People like me who have a desire to get to the end without the danger of throwing my controller through the monitor would like an easy and normal setting. Right now, its dialed up to about an 8 or nine, which is hard in my book. Some people like nightmare mode going all the way to 11. Not for me. Give me a slightly more forgiving system that doesn't require the percise timing of nanoseconds between life and death. I get that you don't want a game to be too easy also, but maybe give the option of not having a stressful souls-like experience? Beautiful game though, with an almost easy time outside of the boss fights that really mess you up. This review brought to you by one of the few who have beaten the original battletoads on NES without any cheats.

The game is a solid metroid-vania with a good fighting system but at the very end, they make it easier for you to backtrack, but much harder to do boss fights making the game more frustrating than it needs to be.

ta bueno