I really love the graphics and music of this game, and thanks for GOG to offer it during X-Mas, but outside of that it's a very weak game. It's one of those game that it could be amazing but some decisions ruin it: - Playing a character outside of the female main character feels like playing a worse game because attacking from afar is actually a lot better and it's not even because of the range, the melee here is actually bad because the game punishes you way too much. - Melee gameplay looks wrong, you're way too punished for your actions, specially when you've to jump or roll. Some parts are so small to do those actions that it's like you're forced to eat damage. And you don't have a lot of HP for that so... it's like forced difficulty. It's nice that we've to be careful and think before we do some actions, like in those fights against the cat-like monsters, but some parts with those pollen plants are like... you're going to lose HP in here unless you roll to outside of this platform and we don't care if you've to do a lot of jumps to get back here. - Moving the party is also horrible. Sometimes you don't know if you're moving the party or yourself. You waste time checking if you're doing it right or not. I like the Lost Vikings idea tho, it's cool to use a party for puzzles. - Saves are ANNOYING! I don't know what else to say. You have a huge talk? You either save after that or you will have to repeat it after die. You got an item during it and the auto-save icon appeared? It doesn't matter, you didn't save according the game. Game is gorgeous and music amazing too but that's it, it's a weak game outside of that. And it's a shame because there are a lot of good ideas here :\
Game isn't exactly bad but it isn't exactly great either, specially when you want to explore it a bit and you can't. The game gives you almost no space for fails. Just to give you an idea: I can't explore the right side of where I'm at the moment because I lack skills. My left is full of gas that I can't walk in, there isn't enough HP for that. The other place to go goes nowhere, there is a wall at the end. And the alternative has electricity that kills me like the gas. Solution? Start a new game and git gud -_- Yeah, game is extremely specific in terms of audience and leaves no space for others. And to be honest, it's a shame. Audio and Graphics aren't actually bad (some animations could be better but listening to audio from every enemy and NPCs is already surprisingly good), it's just the gameplay that sucks and drops you in the game already thinking that you should know how everything works. If it wasn't so strict with the difficulty and the prevention of what I can actually explore, I would probably love it more.
It's KOF, alright, that's good, but this is a terrible port. Keys can't be changed even on the keyboard and even the ones told us, players, to use, are wrong. Game shows that I use QW and XC to punch and kick and after getting into the game I'm using AS and ZXC..... Yes, AS, there is no D and C, weirdly, works. And if that's not enough, we can't skip the tutorial... I know that this isn't like any emulator where you can polish the graphics and change keys as you desire but I expected a bit more from this. Like a ton more. If there was a zero, I would give it a zero. This isn't a port with a bit of effort where we say thanks and support the team, it's pure crap that any company would classify it as such and refuse to release it. I'm glad I got it free. I would've hated it otherwise.
