Man, I really really wanted to like this game more than I did. I'm a sucker for the the pure priestess forced to carry the burden of the world and slowly corrupted by it plotline, and the art is quite good, but actually playing it...
The rooms are huge, like way too big, just big open spaces filled with platforming and enemies. Except the platforming is just, y'know it's fine. Your dodge being more of a face first dive (to start) makes it pretty funny, but it's not really as interesting or smooth as it's contemporaries. Then the enemies... There were so many times I'd just fight through rooms and rooms of the same or a couple of big guys who were kind of a pain and would chip away my health and then it just seemed like they never ended. Runbacks became a huge slog to a point where I was just zipping past guys unless the rooms were locked because it hardly seemed to be worth the effort it took.
Bosses had the same issue. They were mostly Okay, but at the point I gave up I was fighting a guy who zipped around but I could only hit from behind. I could only get a few hits off and his health pool was so big it was just incredibly tedious only to get hit like a truck by an attack... It didn't feel great.
I appreciate what this game is doing, but it unfortunately just feels a bit too amateurish. There are a number of issues (like lever placement and the way they blend in against the dark background) and just the sizes of the rooms, that feel like they wouldn't have been an issue if the game had had proper playtesting and had been tuned accordingly. But I can't fault the game for not having the time and budget for such things.
To speak positively about the game, I think the spirit system is really fun and I enjoyed unlocking the spirits through the minibosses.
I think there is a good and enjoyable game in here, but as it stands I've played 11 hours and I don't think I will be finishing it.
EDIT: I quit this game yesterday in a rage and came back and now I've quit it a second time. It's so frustrating because there's different s good game in here, but man these bosses can eat rocks. I made it all the way to the final boss in the end but I don't think I have the strength in me to finish it, which is agonizing because the ending is So Close, but for real FUCK that boss.
The rooms are huge, like way too big, just big open spaces filled with platforming and enemies. Except the platforming is just, y'know it's fine. Your dodge being more of a face first dive (to start) makes it pretty funny, but it's not really as interesting or smooth as it's contemporaries. Then the enemies... There were so many times I'd just fight through rooms and rooms of the same or a couple of big guys who were kind of a pain and would chip away my health and then it just seemed like they never ended. Runbacks became a huge slog to a point where I was just zipping past guys unless the rooms were locked because it hardly seemed to be worth the effort it took.
Bosses had the same issue. They were mostly Okay, but at the point I gave up I was fighting a guy who zipped around but I could only hit from behind. I could only get a few hits off and his health pool was so big it was just incredibly tedious only to get hit like a truck by an attack... It didn't feel great.
I appreciate what this game is doing, but it unfortunately just feels a bit too amateurish. There are a number of issues (like lever placement and the way they blend in against the dark background) and just the sizes of the rooms, that feel like they wouldn't have been an issue if the game had had proper playtesting and had been tuned accordingly. But I can't fault the game for not having the time and budget for such things.
To speak positively about the game, I think the spirit system is really fun and I enjoyed unlocking the spirits through the minibosses.
I think there is a good and enjoyable game in here, but as it stands I've played 11 hours and I don't think I will be finishing it.
EDIT: I quit this game yesterday in a rage and came back and now I've quit it a second time. It's so frustrating because there's different s good game in here, but man these bosses can eat rocks. I made it all the way to the final boss in the end but I don't think I have the strength in me to finish it, which is agonizing because the ending is So Close, but for real FUCK that boss.