Heidelberg 1693

This is an incredibly challenging platformer. Heck, at times it's even straight up BS, with how much ♥♥♥♥ it throws at you at once, meanwhile you just have 1 heart left. When you start a level and when you respawn in a check point, you have 1 heart. However, turning the tables, overcoming difficult situations and making progress felt incredible! Even with all the frustration I went through, playing this game, I still highly recommend it, if you like difficult games and/or platformers. Because this is a unique game, with lots of effort put into it and soul. [h2]The positives[/h2] [list] [*]For starters the visuals. The levels, backgrounds, designs, smooth animations and even the MC's attacks, it's all so gorgeous and ridiculous. There is so much going on at any given moment, even in the background. [*]The music is another highlight of the game for me. The first level's music really got me hooked. [*]While the game is very tough, if you are up for the challenge, it gives you all the tools and moves to overcome it. [*]Enemies kill each other, which you can use to your advantage. [*]Bullets and projectiles can be deflected/countered. [*]You get to shoot a mus…

Really like this game flaws and all. Sure it's janky but i wish there where more like this.

1) I like difficulty but I don't like when they obligate us to play first all the game in Normal to be able to acces to a higher one then, as it happens here. For this reason I prefer Mario Galaxy 2 than 1, or with Ocarina of Time, in 3DS, where we have to play a remake first in Normal level. Moreover, imo difficulty is an art, and provides meaning, so to keep up with the examples mentioned, Nintendo as has the challenge of adjusting it for all audiences not always achieved it satisfactory, since it is not necessary to simply increase life, resistance and damage of the enemies, if we want to give it depth, but this is another topic. 2) It happens to me with Pixel Art that sometimes promise more than they are finally. The game looks good though. 3) I prefer static games than dynamic ones. This one would be between both of them.

Great game, but it's only 4-5 hours long, so buy it on sale.

Well this is a true hidden gem! Someday a big content creator will find this and make it famous - future cult classic for sure. Setting a punishing action platformer in the era of Louis XIV is an inspired choice, because the imagery and costume of his court has a bizarre, decadent profanity which suits the atmosphere of this game perfectly. Some things in the game are truly revolting and disturbing, others have a brilliantly twisted sense of humour. From obese drunken women hurling things out of the windows of burning buildings to twisted fleshcraft monstrosities, the design is inspired. The gameplay is something like a cross between Ghosts and Goblins, Castlevania, Abe's Odyssee and Super Meat Boy. The musketeer you control is very precise and acrobatic, with a rapier and musket on a bipod. He is also very fragile and so you have to practise the same small sections over and over until you can clear them perfectly in a gory, beautiful dance of death. Challenge is decent, the difficulty is well balanced at a moderate but not insane level. Some of the later levels had me stuck for a while, but I got through the game in about five hours. The soundtrack is amazing, too - lots of ch…

This scratched my Musketeer itch, and it did so beautifully. Excellent OST and gameplay. Visuals are stunning, but at times, I find it hard to keep track of everything on screen because of how busy it can get. The one real complaint that I have is this: the Head of the Moon King. Its presence turns an already-difficult game and turns it into a nightmare of what felt like RNG or like I was being punished for even playing in the first place. I beat the game, and I loved doing it. However, I do not intend to beat it on hard mode, purely because the vindictive Head exists and hunts me down enough as it is. I am a Musketeer scholar and reenactor, so this game makes me giddy as can be. I love it, but I hate the Head. I died more times to IT in a single encounter than I did to the ACTUAL Moon King fight. 7.5/10, purely because of visual disorientation and because of the Head, who haunts me even now.