Minoria

Common enemies 2 shot you. Bomber imps (common in the first area) take off 2/3 of your health bar. You need to defeat bosses without taking a single hit to get actually good upgrades (e.g. beating the first 2 bosses flawlessly increases your basic attack by 50% while the store bought incenses are mostly useless) which is very annoying to do since bosses have contact damage and move around erratically. The environments are very bland and samey looking, it's just endless hallways with locked doors and it's easy to get lost. Overall, a huge downgrade compared to Momodora, wait for a deep sale or skip it altogether.

It's a nice little Metroidvania game, the atmosphere fits and the art design is pretty....but it lacks polish, mainly in the combat and balancing department. You get active and passive skills, 99% of the former are useless 100% of the time. The offensive ones do way too little damage to be worthwhile using instead of just hitting enemies, have a set amount of charges, and the particles produce a lot of visual clutter obscuring your view-> you get hit -> you die. Cleansing status effects is worthless, since you never actually get any. That leaves healing, and passive skills. Sometimes there are enemies mixed in that just seem to have about 20 times (no joke) the hp of the one next to it of the same type. Combat...well, parry feels odd. It's quick by itself, the window is very short, and canceling attacks into a successful parry sometimes works, and sometimes it doesn't. Jump+parry is a lot easier to land. Pretty often the animations don't really line up with what is actually happening. You can attempt a parry, get no visual feedback, but take no damage and the attack just passes through you (on parryable attacks). You can stunlock enemies...and suddendly die out of nowhere because the enemy decided to attack you while visibly still being stunned (remember, you take a lot more damage when hit while attacking). Bosses are pretty easy, except for them being HP-sponges and killing you in 1-2 hits. You get rewards for killing them flawlessly, at least. You have stats, but you have no real way of influencing them except for leveling up and a couple(I think?) of weak buff skills, so they might as well not be there. There is also hardly any equipment to be found, and some items just seem to land in your inventory without ever being of any use. This, together with the rather short length and some characters just being there leaves you wondering if the game got cut short for release. You get your money's worth, but I wouldn't mind paying more for more game and more polish

I'm a big fan of Bombservice's previous games, but I couldn't find much to enjoy in Minoria. Animations are stiff, and many enemy telegraphs come down to a circular flash before a very fast attack. This could be hard to spot and react to given the large effects on screen that appear every time I attacked. Some attack animations are locked to lower framerates (I noticed this especially on the double-jump), which made me feel ill at times running the game at 144 FPS. Even attacking constantly, I was rarely able to build up enough damage to stunlock an enemy, making nearly every fight a constant loop of "bottleneck enemies into a line, attack once or twice, roll away, repeat." With even basic mobs' attacks removing over half of my HP, combat was more of an exercise in frustration than anything else. Levelling up barely increased my defensive capabilities; if an enemy is hitting for 240 damage, 8 more HP isn't going to do anything. The area design in Minoria is also a large step back from previous Bombservice titles, lacking the design elements that helped differentiate locations in favor of linear corridors with little distinguishing detail. The area I expected to be the most open, a garden, ended up being one of the worst offenders of all, featuring a linear hallway with three chokepoints in a row. It's no secret that rdein, the game's creator, was inspired by the Souls series, but this game ends up in the same place that Dark Souls III does for me: by focusing on the game's fast, difficult action elements above all else, it loses the quality adventure elements which drew me to the games in the first place. I can't recommend this game to anyone but die-hard action fans, especially at twice the price of Momodora IV.

This game expands upon the beauty of Momodora Reverie under the Moonlight and makes another epic masterpiece. The thing I love most is that you're rewarded well for doing something like taking no damage from a boss. The music is beautiful, the art style is different from the pixel style I expected but still very good. The side thigh action from the MC is also a plus as well as the really fun attack animations and fighting style with interesting enemies. Movement is a bit clunky and the walking animation can look a bit awkward but it does not take anything away from the game just something I noticed first off but becomes neglible once you have played 20 minutes. I'm also really happy this entry supports high resolution monitors and fps options.