This game would be a great one to play if you want to take a break from challenging games - then, this would be a breath of fresh air. The eye for detail is there as well, seeing the profile picture change with certain actions for example. But throughout the whole game I missed the challenging aspect - even when I lost hearts it didn't really matter much to me because there are too many checkpoints and there isn't the concept of "game over".
This is one of the tougher platform games I've played so far, and it most certainly delivered. Yes, it's difficult but the solution to progress further is rather simple, which motivates the player (in my opinion) to keep on trying and to succeed. Great job!
To be fair I only played it for a few minutes, but the controls are rather weird. Sometimes the character walks in a normal manner, but now and then she slows down for no apparent reason. The combat is odd, sometimes a charge-like attack is used when the player isn't asking for it nor doing anything out of the ordinary other than hitting the X-button, which should be for a normal attack. And the use of repetitive tutorials is really unnecessary. All and all: not a great experience.
I feel a bit conflicted about this game. I love the art style, the controls are really smooth and I love me some platformer metroidvania-like games, but.. If you try to play with a controller I would recommend against it. For some reason they thought it'd be a good idea to make the button to add a symbol to the map, the same as to switch between tabs: RB - and there is no way of changing this. The first start up of the game wasn't smooth either, it was filled with bugs. Enemies would be walking inside of walls, secret areas didn't load properly and my first boss killed me 10 times because it had a clone that wasn't supposed to be there. When it comes to difficulty spikes I find this game to be quite unforgiving. Yes, you do get to learn how to apply certain skills but at some parts of the game it seems a bit unfair, and far more difficult than the steps before that, if that makes any sense. Hence the 3/5.
