It's a "short" game about the question "What happens when I..." we probably all ask ourselves a lot in adventure games. Instead of running into walls with that question, here it is the core of the game and you are encouraged to try as much nonsense as possible. My favorite scenario was "Ok, I am a cat and I will save the princess from the dark lord using only this chicken" and it actually worked. xD You can kill or hug absolutely everyone and everything in this game and the results are sometimes hilarious. There were two solutions I tried the devs didn't seem to have thought of, but apart from those there's really a lot you can do. The game is a love letter to Zelda and at the same time criticizes it and turns those points into puzzle elements which make you find certain paths and select the right order in which to collect items, since every additional item reduces your agility and at some point you just break down completely, so you can't just carry around tons of tools all the time and have to think about what you really need for your current plan. Some endings have aftermaths in the world to the next runs, which adds more variety to the world and also a few shortcuts later. I got all 108 endings in 10 hours and only needed a walkthrough for a few of them when something didn't work out the way I thought it would and you were supposed to do it differently although that didn't happen often and right at the end of the secret content there's a massive trolling moment, but I won't spoil that. The difficulty is just right for me, even the challenge rooms were doable and I had to do them three times, because I did let myself get fooled by the deliberate trolling. I highly recommend that game, the only real gripe I have is, that although it is a Unity game and it wouldn't be much work to port it to Linux/Mac, it's still Windows only, hopefully that will change at some point, since I know people who would really appreciate this game but don't use WINE.
First the good things: Performance of the Linux port is top notch, my system is 10 years old, but it ran perfectly on above medium settings. Now the bad things: Everything else. I was 10 hours in, have upgraded most things to about half and still barely managed to beat the first phase of the first pyramid's boss before running out of ammo and health. And this is only the first of three pyramids... It says that most scrolls have a positive effect, I have a very different experience. It's raining curses. I wanted to see at least more than 30% of the game before giving up, but I've had it. I really don't want to do those levels again for days before being able to see anything else. This game needs too much grind and is too much dependent on pure luck, I made way more progress in Rogue Legacy in that amount of time. Also: Unlike in most other rogue-likes, it's not that you enter a room, all the enemies pop up and you have to get out alive, but here the enemies pop up one by one in intervals, usually right behind you or besides you when you're with the back on the wall fighting off the already existing hordes. What a waste of time.
