Ocean's Heart

Proper Legend of Zelda 2d clone. Despite being in love with these types of games, I find this one very boring. Graphics, music, sounds, designs is all properly made... but at the same time - boring. I had trouble to jump down from cliffs as well as very often jumping into water by accident. A lot. Whole game. Somehow menuing itself also annoyed me which is rare. It's negative short review mostly because I took 4 attempts to complete the game and I struggled myself to launch it each time, finding something better to play. This game is not bad, just proper but nothing special about it.

I dont like the janky movements and combat feels stiff. I was expecting something like Zelda but its really nothing like that and a lot of other games have much smoother and better gameplay.

This game looks wonderful, and the exploration feels perfect. My issues start when trying to fight enemies. Movement feels stiff and imprecise, and it just feels like every direction I go at the start has some kind of big enemy that hits for multiple damage. Add in the fact that I upgraded my armor (which cost me all my money) and couldn't afford any healing items and the loop just felt frustrating. Once I got health items, I found out that they don't return on death: enemies respawn, your health doesn't completely refill, and anything you picked up on screen or used from your inventory is gone. The game is frustrating because enemies either don't have attacks and just damage me with collision, or their attacks have more range than mine and they hit me before I can hit them. I'll defeat an enemy only to die to an environmental hazard and have to fight the room all over again, just without any health items I used and less than my max health. This game looks good and has a great concept, but the gameplay is very poorly implemented.

I know it bills itself as a Zelda, but it's way more like an early Ys. The hitboxes are mega scuffed, the healing system isn't thought through, there's lots of little peripheral game elements that don't totally make sense in the formula, there's tons of reading and the way the story is told is a little more human and a little less folkloric. If you want an experience that's been polished Nintendo-smooth, this is not that. Every edge is rough. But, as per the title, there's a lot of heart in this thing. Play this like you would a flash game on Kongregate and you'll have an excellent time. Edit: A lot of stuff doesn't work in comical ways. Salt candles, for example, are an explosive that you should never use, because they trigger instantly on your square multi-hitting you whenever you click one. Bombs, on the other hand, take like a full minute to explode---you'll never use them in a combat situation because of this. A lot of other stuff is just wildly scuffed. You can't close out of your quest menu---you have to go to your inventory to close your menu. And the game's player guidance is very low. A lot of stuff is communicated in dialog only, and your quest logs aren't sorted by…

if u like snes lezda, then ull like this

Got Softlocked over 5 times in less than 3 hours. Too much back and forth. Quest tracking is non-existent. As much as i loved the art style and music, i can't recommend it. Game need a QoL update urgently.