The Sacred Acorn

This game has a great and has a really smooth feel to it. This game will test your ability to play any soul-like game by having to dodge, attack and heal to defeat bosses. You will meet some really cute characters and grow to love Ima the Squirrel. I love the hand drawn art in the game as well. I can't wait to see how this game evolves over time. This is definitely a game I would recommend to anyone who likes fast paced adventure games.

Giving this one a cautious recommendation as there are a lot of problems with it but a lot of good too. The good: - It is indeed cozy for a souslike, the bosses are all easily learnable without too much effort and it is very relaxing to play - Cute characters and a great theme - Even with minimal upgrades you can do well, but it's difficult enough where winning feels satisfying - The upgrades are very neat, the game is very open ended but there are always things to do The bad: - Save points are way too far away from most bosses, particularly the lizard boss (which is a whole can of worms in itself) - The lizard boss is straight up not fair. Once the bridges vanish you can't hit him for a large amount of time and his claw swipe attack has an outrageously large hitbox that can't be reacted to - You move far too slow and the only way to mitigate that is by spamming dash, constantly, which is pretty dumb or using the sprint ability which consumes essence you'll want to save for healing - Ending spoilers [spoiler]You'll get a bad ending where you die if you don't 100% the game, I'm not usually a fan of this[/spoiler]

I want to like this as there's obvious effort and thought into the game design and art style, but there's too many cons as compared to pros in my experience for the gameplay. The map isn't accurate and sometimes buggy with the companion, the combat is really slow and hitboxes are off. The bosses don't have much too them, just a set of attacks that are looped. The dialogue is minimal so any pointers on what you're supposed to be doing to progress is hard to understand, especially with the maze-like design for the entire map. The lesser-enemies feel useless to defeat as they don't really drop currency and some of the abilities cost an absurd amount, though I'm willing to bet they are overpowered. And near the end of the game my save file wouldn't load causing an error, I thought it was corrupted but it ended up loading after 10 tries. I spent easily about 4 hours of my 6 hour run spam dashing around the entire map to find out what I'm missing or what I'm supposed to do next, finding areas that hold absolutely no purpose. I would only recommend this to you if you have time to spare and are willing to take a game slowly, but due to how un-polished this game feels with the bugs and the…

Very slow gameplay. I have no idea how hard this game is supposed to be, as I appear to have been invincible throughout the time I had with it, but based on the ui, I think I only had 3 hp. There was only 1 attack that I had, so the combat was rather a chore to get through, even if it was extremely easy for me.

What a sudden outburst of squirrel games! Previously I couldn't find anything but the "squirrel with a gun" thing that doesn't look appealing to me, but the previous year gave us The Sacred Acorn, and this year has Squirreled Away and Leafing Home. I didn't play these last two yet, but finally found some time to finish TSA. Upsides: - Squirrels!!! - There's a LOT of them. - They all have big bushy tails. - They all are cute and huggable. - They can say something and have funny voices. - They are actually pretty big, so you don't have to feel yourself small and vulnerable. - You are playing as one of the most adorable squirrels named Ima. - You can fight fearsome beasts with your tiny claws and even save the world! - You can cast Squirrel Magic that will remind you a lot of Hollow Knight. - Overall graphics and music are OK, too. - Story Mode (basically Infinite HP Cheat but official) for those who, like me, are SO bad at dodging. - More than one ending. Downsides: - Small bugs and glitches all over the place, like, you can go through objects, walk underneath floor layers (and these layers sometimes lay above trees or just abruptly end with a black void), seeds falling from pots m…

The combat was stupid and boring and there was no good aspect to this.