Side scrolling action that starts fun but simple before giving you double and wall jumps, parry, a downward strike to bounce off enemies, sprints with a lunging invulnerable slash all leading to more interesting movement. Boss fights are varied in style with good looking enemies, though are pretty easy to beat (even when going for each of their achievement challenges). Good art though not that unique as the future dystopia setting and level backgrounds is fairly common, great soundtrack. There are more hidden pickups that will increase your health or SP for your special attacks but your health mostly increases automatically from beating mid level bosses so you aren't overly punished for not finding every hidden thing like you would be in most games that do that. The only real difficult parts of the game tend to come from some of the SP items you need to backtrack for.
The game controls well but the sprint attack is likely going to be fairly unwieldy outside of the better players, but the game doesn't overly force the move onto you as you can almost always get through sections without it. The game is pretty easy outside of knockback pushing you into instant kill pits and those deaths can always be annoying but start to get mitigated a bit once you gain the option to double jump and can angle yourself out of some of them. Even as someone saying the game is easy, I am not good at using the sprint attack. The pickups for currency to power the save machines for additional functions is just pointless as I never came close to running out and even if you did you could just grind them doing nothing for the game but adding a potential layer of tedium.
Very solid game, complaints don't really amount to much, though all the skills are rarely used together to create more interesting stage design (probably not helped by giving some of the abilities so far into the game). Not at the level of excellence that I would find the Shovel Knight games but still an easy recommendation.
First playthrough with 100% item collection and all but four achievements, took about 4 hours and 20 minutes with 66 deaths (with a good number of them being from trying to beat a boss without touching water and trying not to get hit on the motorcycle section).
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1373601628259975169
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XScyr8TBgM
The game controls well but the sprint attack is likely going to be fairly unwieldy outside of the better players, but the game doesn't overly force the move onto you as you can almost always get through sections without it. The game is pretty easy outside of knockback pushing you into instant kill pits and those deaths can always be annoying but start to get mitigated a bit once you gain the option to double jump and can angle yourself out of some of them. Even as someone saying the game is easy, I am not good at using the sprint attack. The pickups for currency to power the save machines for additional functions is just pointless as I never came close to running out and even if you did you could just grind them doing nothing for the game but adding a potential layer of tedium.
Very solid game, complaints don't really amount to much, though all the skills are rarely used together to create more interesting stage design (probably not helped by giving some of the abilities so far into the game). Not at the level of excellence that I would find the Shovel Knight games but still an easy recommendation.
First playthrough with 100% item collection and all but four achievements, took about 4 hours and 20 minutes with 66 deaths (with a good number of them being from trying to beat a boss without touching water and trying not to get hit on the motorcycle section).
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1373601628259975169
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XScyr8TBgM