I’m sorry but I couldn’t with this one. I love Metroidvanias and WayForward, but this just has too many frustrating and outdated design decisions, even for 2017. I got soft locked in the final area thanks to the death system which clearly wasn’t tested, and didn’t come back.
First some good news, the soundtrack RIPS. Every track is a synthwave banger and alone gave me the juice to keep playing. Add one whole star for that.
Ok now that that’s out of the way, the death system is insane. If you’re heavily armed and die, you go back to the last save where, not only do you do a runback (which itself is fine), but you have to do it at essentially level 1 and the further you are, the more impossible it is.
NOT to mention, every area has a Medusa-head enemy. Every single one. And they do way too much damage for a character with one health bar. Oh and here’s a fun piece of trivia, if you play on PC with a monitor over 60Hz, the game is bugged and some enemies will move too fast. That goes for some of the Medusa head enemies too. Fun
Some other thoughts. Bosses are too damage spongey, and if you run out of ammo for the good guns, you’re forced to just use your basic, which is painful because there’s no way to get more ammo mid fight.
I also understand this is a game from 2017, but Hollow Knight came out the same year, and Save Points not fully restoring health is unacceptable. Have fun going in between rooms to try to get health orbs. And I mean a lot. Even the highest orb refills such a small amount, so just filling one bar can take way longer than it should.
So that’s where I ended it. My zombie is too far, underwater with piranha that move too fast and erratically for my peashooter that only moves in set angles, with the best weapon so far, the flamethrower rendered completely unusable. That’s after the mummy enemies that Usain Bolt from a sarcophagus with no reaction time, the bird Medusa heads, the brain jumping enemies that are also impossible without the flamethrower, and fuck this.
First some good news, the soundtrack RIPS. Every track is a synthwave banger and alone gave me the juice to keep playing. Add one whole star for that.
Ok now that that’s out of the way, the death system is insane. If you’re heavily armed and die, you go back to the last save where, not only do you do a runback (which itself is fine), but you have to do it at essentially level 1 and the further you are, the more impossible it is.
NOT to mention, every area has a Medusa-head enemy. Every single one. And they do way too much damage for a character with one health bar. Oh and here’s a fun piece of trivia, if you play on PC with a monitor over 60Hz, the game is bugged and some enemies will move too fast. That goes for some of the Medusa head enemies too. Fun
Some other thoughts. Bosses are too damage spongey, and if you run out of ammo for the good guns, you’re forced to just use your basic, which is painful because there’s no way to get more ammo mid fight.
I also understand this is a game from 2017, but Hollow Knight came out the same year, and Save Points not fully restoring health is unacceptable. Have fun going in between rooms to try to get health orbs. And I mean a lot. Even the highest orb refills such a small amount, so just filling one bar can take way longer than it should.
So that’s where I ended it. My zombie is too far, underwater with piranha that move too fast and erratically for my peashooter that only moves in set angles, with the best weapon so far, the flamethrower rendered completely unusable. That’s after the mummy enemies that Usain Bolt from a sarcophagus with no reaction time, the bird Medusa heads, the brain jumping enemies that are also impossible without the flamethrower, and fuck this.