Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin

x-- 8/10 --x Absolutely charming 2D platformer! There is a lot of spelling / grammar mistakes in the game, but the gameplay is solid.

it was ok

this is a really jank little indie game.. and its VERY indy, it looks like it was made by two 14 year old boys in mom's basement. that said, its just a simple level-based platformer and it plays its part well. its got a nice assortment of simple enemy types and a couple subweapons with useful secondary effects, plenty of levels to keep you busy for a couple hours, and an appropriately terrible story to fit the gameplay and aesthetics. I had fun with this game, and if you like janky little indy games you prolly will too.

Gameplay is a nice little retro game, but controller support is a joke. Original mapping is really unintuitive and remapping them is just straight up bugged and doesn't work. Rest of the menu is also clunky, I have no idea how you can mess up a menu so bad that it's just plain frustrating.

I owned "Ghoul Boy" possibly since it came out. But it took me almost ten years to finally play it. And it was just the right moment, because I looked for a retro platformer that is challenging, but finishable. I found it with "Ghoul Boy". + smooth gameplay that makes jumping and fighting a pleasure + mostly beatable jumping and fighting sequences with some peaks you shouldn't give up at + great aesthetics that conjure the world of "Ghoul Boy" perfectly + unlockable items that DO make a difference, because the morning star really imprves your combat ability as does tte extra health Having beaten the game, I can say that it truely evokes memories to "Castlevania", and, concerning some difficulty, "Mega Man".

Good combat platformer game. Much better experience this time thru the game. I tried to play thru the game on my Nintendo Switch but it was broken on the Switch so I couldnt finish it. But I picked up this game on Steam when it was really cheap on sale because I had just played thru once of this developers other games: Beholgar (which I liked). It was a mjuch better experience on my PC. I was able to play thru the entire game on my Steam Deck without any technical issues. Solid combat platformer game. Check out this developers other more recent games: Beholgar 1 and 2.