The game is about building a dream ship for ghosts. Here's the thing: Progression feels like a chore with night cycles. Exploration isn't rewarding at best you're getting certain items. Nothing special. Game could use refinement, for example if you cook food that someone enjoys they could be waiting outside the kitchen telling you how nice it smells. The game is supposed to be a touchy feely kind of journey but the way you get resources and all is a chore and makes it not fun. The navigation system is just boring and you're waiting to get somewhere most of the time or sleeping through the night because there is nothing to be done. For a comfort game it feels like a dull slow chore to me.
Yes I will most likely finish this. There are many issues that I just hate: 1) Blocking is automatic, you will legit not know if your character will block a fireball, it's automatic and probably dependent on an angle, god knows what it is inconsistent and clunky. 2) Movement is clunky and so is striking, this doesn't feel modern at all, such a shame. 3) Platforming, the dev is a confirmed sadist, tons of platforming underwater and the currents require PERFECT joysticks and jumps include the volcano area. 4) Respawn is pain, you will enjoy figuring things out a bit, but mostly you will just hate this nonsensical sadism that masquerades as a metroidvania, just because it's pissing you off doesn't mean it's doing well. This is nowhere as refined as any of the fine metroidvanias outthere like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells. You will have to walk far if you miss the volcano portal. The map doesn't update which area is complete, it shows overall progression and whatever is left is just left as is. Objectives completed aren't checked, you cannot track what you missed. 5) Jank mechanics just to fill the game up, such as the toad's tongue, that misses a lot due to painful inaccuracies. The game should be hard combat wise and combat is overly simplistic and not fun, parrying being automatic is a huge negative. I love the concept, the execution takes so much away from this game. You don't have to fill every area with bats... For god's sake, the combat isn't rich enough to handle these annoying things. You have to dance around them to not lose HP, it's not fun, there is nothing else that you can do. If only combat was well designed. Essentially this is just a puzzles game. Nice idea for transformations lots of areas are overly repetitive and it gets so unfun, especially the temple and volcano. The game's combat should be redesigned to reward parrying and it should be manual.
Combat is greater than anything I've ever imagined.... I used to think Hollow Knight was the king of 2D. The weapon diversity here us just amazing.
Let's just say that this is the first time I ever buy a game. After I pirated this game I just had to buy it. Not just cause of the free DLCs but cause the devs deserve it. Just.... Wow. Wow. Wow... It doesn't get any better this this. Wow. The game starts out slowly but you have to be willing to explore. There is no linear gameplay route, it's about going around and exploring. This is how every single adventure game should be. Let alone the progression and the brilliance of the puzzles of this game, the art, the soundtracks and the vastness of the playstyle and the experience. This is hands down the best game I have ever played so far in my entire life. This is just the gem I have been looking for. Rich in content, extremely challenging, great progression system and perfectly designed maps and bosses. It's so much fun you're always looking forward to the next thing exploring going back and forth and figuring things out. This game is such a masterpiece. I'm happy to support the devs with whatever paid DLCs they'll be putting out in the future. This game is pure genius. No amount of words in any order will describe how lucky I felt stumbling across this game. At first it didn't seem like much but as I played it more and more I got hooked after a couple of hours. To think that human beings are capable of creating such engaging fun mentally stimulating content has really put things into perspective for me. Maybe this raised the bar way too damn much. Maybe I'll never find anything to ever compete with it. I surely hope they'll still be releasing more and more DLCs. Cause I know that for as long as I'll be playing this game, it's going to be a blast. Thank you for this.
