TERRACOTTA

An interesting game, for sure, but far too janky to be enjoyable. First of all, the English text is complete gibberish most of the time. I understand English is not the dev's first language, but I don't understand Spanish or Chinese! What scant tutorial there is makes no sense; I needed to look at a youtube video just to learn how to play. The controls themselves are also super fiddly and not very intuitive. Even Controller support is iffy, and sometimes struggles to register when a button is being held down. There are also bugs. The player character sometimes falls out of world, as does collectible objects. Sometimes enemies just run into walls forever, and collision seems all over the place. I understand this is an indie game, but for a "finished" game (that you expect people to pay real money for) bugs of this sort are inexcusable. And I ran into these despite only playing for an hour! It's a shame, because I can see what the dev is going for, and I'd love to play a game like this, but the execution is all over the place. It's not unplayable, just very disappointing; I have ultimately decided to refund rather than go any further.

Unfortunately a game breaking bug on second level, where you are supposed to use a new skill, but the key bind for that does not work, neither does the controller bind. That prevents me from continuing with the game, luckily under 2 hours, so I was able to refund it.

Complete nonsense of a game that I have no desire to sit through, and I'm refraining from using stronger words. I spent maybe 15min on this game and that too much already. Why? The game drops you somewhere without any introduction or even a notion of what is happening. Randomly it adds what has a semblance of a story but is mostly "mystical ramblings for the sake of sound mystical that explain nothing and are over the top cheesy". Of course this is completely detached from what you are actually experiencing on screen, which is being in an empty room with magical elevator with nowhere to go until you walk to a shiny spot on the ground. Then one of the doors opens and you can walk through it, which is janky AF. Then you realize you are now on some level and you given controls to use of your character without any notion what to do. Somewhere along the way Qi is mentioned. You randomly press a button on your controller and whole world shifts into another reality and now the boulder in front of you is gone that was blocking your path? Ok. You walk a little more and stand over a strange looking button on the floor and you can now see your skills in a window that pops up. You can select…

I got it from a steam key. Fun game if you like genres like this. I personally will never be playing it again.

4 hours in hit a wall with the first boss battle with the bird. After many attempts, I just gave up. I'm not sure what the target market for this game. It seems to be a puzzle game where you are constantly running away from the enemies while trying to solve the puzzle. What genre is this? It is too bad as the puzzles are quite interesting. Even the boss battle is a nice puzzle but just too frustrating as I kept falling off the platforms or getting stuck in the slow world while the boss just kept pummeling me. I was really enjoying the game until that point. They need to have a difficulty setting for at least the boss levels. I like a good puzzle game. It is too bad that I need to set this game aside until if and when they decide to make an easier setting for the boss levels. I really would like to see the rest of the game. For now, it goes on the trash heap of unfinished games. <sigh>

Nope