Exploration and Action are the main ingredients in this old-school platformer. As you explore a strange place in another time, you will find weapons and abilities that empower you to explore further and better fight the dangers. This place seems to be filled with secrets in strange places, use your grenades to blast up walls and see whats on the other side. Use your map to better navigate the complex and find what paths you missed the first time. The game has been designed with speedrunning in mind, and the game is relatively open ended in terms of sequence breaking. Features: * Over 100 rooms to explore divided into seven colorful areas. * One single interconnected gameworld without artificial barriers. * Game designed to support speedrunning and sequence breaking. * Find new weapons and abilities throughout your adventure. * Use the in-game map to navigate and discover 100% of the game world. * Amazing soundtrack by Simon Stålenhag
I've only just started playing this game, but I can already tell that I'm going to love it. :D It has a neat yet quirky story, the controls while floaty feel nice, and the aesthetic is wonderful. Can't wait to beat it and update this review!
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This is a solid metroidvania. Though it sticks pretty close to the conventions of its genre, it has just enough original ideas to make it its own. The level design is very well done and the main reason I rated the game as high as I did.
annoying lava map and knockback from the many projectiles there was very frustrating and made me rate this 1 point lower. the game is 8/10 because you have to search every room in order to 100%, some multiple times... and it isn't as linear as it should be. the combat system is pretty good but it could be more diverse.
This game will be definitively interesting to fans of Metroidvania - challenging, a lot of space to explore, interesting enough plot. Very well made.
But, i cannot call it ideal due some of weak points, especially in Magma area:
1) Many of magma chambers have a way to repetitive design, looks as almost copy-paste.
2) Overall difficulty, while its moderate in game overall, magma chambers is close to insane. TOO much of aggression from environment to player.
Very fun, excellent controls, and love the music and retro graphics (they sort of remind me of a mix of 16-bit console graphics mixed with some of the graphics you'd see in early 90's DOS games).
Great work.
Once you get used to the floaty controls there lies a great game that lets you explore at your own pace. It conjured up feelings of Cave Story and truly has that SNES 3.0 feel.