Looks and plays like a worse version of Momodora. Enemies are similar, gameplay too, but the new art style just doesnt look nearly as good as Momodoras, especially when the game zooms in. The Bosses hit and hurtboxes arent quiet as clear as they were in Momodora and the Metroidvania part is too much for my taste. I got stuck several times, and exploring the world isn't rly fun, especially when you don't know what you are looking for, but maybe thats just me and my general distaste of most metroidvania like titles. But then again, the predecessor Momodora got that part just right too.
Two DLCs which are free on steam but not on gog. Good game so far but stuf like that rly is a bummer. Wouldnt have bought it, if i had known about this.
Well, the Game is pretty much a tower Defense. You get units to man the towers and other buildings or to fire with their automatic weapons on the enemy waves. The idea is, that you have to switch the units in and out of your turrets, refineries and research labs to mine minerals, defend your base or get new tech for better buildings. But you can build new troops in most missions, so this isn't really any problem. At least for the 18 out of 20 missions where you have the option to do so. You still would have a solid TD with a somewhat ok story but the game lacks in controls. For some reason they ditched the standard controls for RTS games since 1997 or so. Instead you got -to move your units with left click -invisible walls on the map where you simply can't click at all which makes microing units even harder -no option to group units -often problems with deselecting stuff (this gets frustrating when you have to build and micro stuff at the same time) These weird and bad controls make microing rly hard but you have to micro against certain units if you want to not lose your towers or units for the perfect score. But even with all those problems, which solely work against the player, the game rly isn't challenging if you don't go for 100% every mission, even on highest difficulty. There were two missions that got kinda hard. One because you couldn't get additional troops and the last level which i don't want to spoil. It took me 8hours to finish the game.
We tried to play it with just two players over LAN and Internet. We connected just fine but the game crashes alot making it almost unplayable past the first few hours.
This game is no real point n click adventure. Its about ~22 puzzles which you have to find by navigating through the mansion. Some are good or even great, some are downright shitty, like the tin/can-puzzle. But inbetween those puzzles, the only thing you gotta do is find the pixel with the next hidden puzzle. Also, the navigation can get a bit tedious since you will see the same video sequences alot. And sometimes, the next puzzle or the way to unlock the next door is kinda cryptic.
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.
