Posted on: July 25, 2017

loco_pd

Игр: Отзывов: 5

One of the better 2D of this genre

I got this game for free and because of this I had practically zero expectations. I wasn't expecting 2D Dark Souls so the general lack of enemies didn't bother me that much. There are still some challenges outside the Boss fights and they vary from area to area. After you beat the game, you can challenge yourself and try to beat tougher versions of the Jotun. Story seems like a classic Norse legend and it's a strong point of the game. It can be divided into two parts, the first is about the protagonist herself which is delivered just by the narrator and could be improved by some visuals, and the second about Norse mythology, which is presented by the beautiful hand-drawn scenery and enemies. The quality of sounds and voice acting is brilliant. Controls with mouse and keyboard are surprisingly good, there is an option to rebind all keys, but it doesn't fix the biggest problem. Switching through skills. It's tedious, you know what skill you want to use, but might not know how many times you need the press the button to get to that skill. We have tens of usable keys on keyboard, why do we need to press one button to scroll through a menu? Overall very pleasant experience, would recommend.

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Posted on: September 21, 2017

A.F.K DaN

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Игр: 685 Отзывов: 10

Something different!

After beating this game i will give it a 5/5. To clear things up, this is not your regular action fast-paced action game. This game has it's priority in telling you a story within northern mythlogy with a lot of pretty nice artworks and a few not too easy boss fights. Most time of this game you will wander around, sometimes solving little puzzles, explore the map and enjoy the environment. I really enjoyed the journey and finished the game with about 5,5 hours playtime. Might be a bit too costly without sale bonus, but if you can get it for about 5 bucks, it's pretty worth it.

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Posted on: July 21, 2017

Archimidis

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Игр: 282 Отзывов: 8

Could be great, but it is just mediocre.

In Jotun, you play as a female Viking warrior. There is a central area, and from there you can enter five different sections. Each section has two "levels", with a boss at the end (the first section is a bit simpler). There is also a final boss in the end. The game is very short; took me about 8 hours to finish it, and that includes all "secret" areas. If you explore each level, you can get some new abilities (6 in total) and 3 health upgrades, There are no enemies, other than the bosses in the end of each level. So what you do in each level? well, you deal with some puzzles and tricks. Each level has different tricks to deal with. Most of them are nice and well implemented. In general, the levels are very well designed, and the graphics are nice. Story is minimal, inspired by Nordic mythology. The only interesting thing about it is the narration, which is in Icelandic (with subtitles in English). A very unusual choice, apparently to give some Viking flavor in the game. The boss fights are the biggest part of this game. Your warrior has two attacks, one fast but weak and one slow but powerful. You can also roll to dodge enemy attacks, and there is a roll-and-hit attack. Add to that the 6 special abilities mentioned earlier, and you have a rather minimal arsenal which in fact works very well. However, the boss fights are very unbalanced. Four bosses are very easy, and can be killed in the first try. Other bosses are more challenging, which could be a good thing - if it was always fair. In a few cases, difficulty was increased with some cheap, unfair methods. It is obvious that developers were not afraid to take some risks, making the game different than the crowd. This is a decision to applause. However, the game is short and implementation could be way better. Therefore, the final verdict for Jotun:Valhalla is 2.5 stars out of 5 - a short, mediocre, game, which could be much better. Full price cannot be justified. I would recommend you buy it if it is on sale.

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Posted on: December 29, 2018

kbjovac1993

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Игр: 73 Отзывов: 27

Really good with big flaws

Pleasant surprise. + visuals. Very nice art style + story and narration. Simple story but fits well with norse setting and narration in icelandic (i think) adds so much to the atmosphere + memorable boss fights - combat is ok but could have been way better - your character is so small compared to the bosses you will barely see her during boss fights - last boss is just brutally difficult..never beaten him - too short Overall 7/10 overall really good with some big flaws

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Posted on: August 1, 2017

schmutah

Владелец игры

Игр: 121 Отзывов: 5

A gamers review

Jotun is a very atmospheric game, with wonderful hand drawn graphics and good music and sound effects. I also liked the fact that the dialogue are spoken in Icelandic, giving that extra touch in the atmospheric department. The story is not the best, but quite engaging anyway. You even get to know some of the great old norse mythology as you progress through the game. The gameplay however is not very engaging. Thora, the main protagonist moves as a snail. The two possible attacks are the standard fast and weak, and the slow and strong. The strong one is however very slow. On some puzzles in the game it is needed to use the slow attack on different objects. These puzzles just seems very dull as they take a lot of time to complete due to Thoras movement speed and slow attack. The fighting is sparse and when they do occur feel rather lame. Thora is equipped with the mandatory dodge roll which I found my self spamming to move faster. I do not know if it had any impact or not. I did not find the puzzles or the combat very hard as I only died a couple of times and all of the deaths were on the two final bosses. In the end Jotun is a very atmospheric puzzle game but a rather dull one.

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