Eliosi's Hunt

Eliosi’s Hunt is an indie action-platform shooter developed by TDZ Games in collaboration with Gamecraft Studios and published by TDZ Games. The game blends elements of classic arcade shooters with platforming and top-down combat mechanics, resulting in a fast-paced experience that emphasizes precision, reflexes, and careful positioning. Rather than focusing on cinematic storytelling or a sprawling open world, the game offers a tightly designed adventure where each level functions as a challenging obstacle course filled with enemies, environmental hazards, and strategic combat encounters. The design philosophy centers on rewarding skill and persistence, encouraging players to master the mechanics through repeated attempts. The story introduces players to Eliosi, a young alien bounty hunter from a race known as the Zelicyans. Unlike many heroic protagonists in action games, Eliosi is not portrayed as physically imposing or naturally powerful. In fact, members of his species are generally considered small and fragile compared to the creatures inhabiting the galaxy. Despite these limitations, Eliosi dreams of proving himself as a capable bounty hunter. His journey begins when he acce…

This is an indie action shooter with platforming elements that's meant to mirror a PS1-type game. It succeeds at mimicking the janky PS1 platforming elements of games like Crash Bandicoot and Pandemonium, and it largely works as a shooter. This is the sort of game where you might fail at an obstacle several times before figuring out what to do and then clearing it with ease after. The actual gun combat is nothing special but it's definitely fun to blast enemies and see them fly all over the place with ragdoll physics. There are only five levels, but there are fifty achievements and collecting them all will require at least four playthroughs. I did all of them in about 15 hours, but I would've gotten it done faster if not for the 4th level speedrun challenge which is one of the most insanely difficult things I've seen in a game. I like that the game gives the option between choosing to activate a checkpoint or increase your health. There are many secrets and upgrades, and you have to go through levels multiple times to collect them all as you need greater jumping distance or something else unlocked. Truth be told, I didn't care for this at first but playing it more gave me a bette…

Not a good game.

I am trying to give every game who has some of the things that I like (a shooter/platformer doesn't sound bad) a chance to redeem themselves. This one is pretty bad. No dialogues, no story, some interesting platforming sections but nothing redeemable, especially for a stupidly high (and bugged) difficulty which just add frustration. 4/10

This game is bad, there's no two ways around it. Weak combat, uninteresting narrative, terrible platforming. There's no world where I would feel even remotely impelled to keep playing.

I can't say this isa bad game, it had potential. It plays like a Crash Bandicoot Sci-fi twin stick shooter which sounds fun. Where the game loses me are the camera angles. As I'm running through dodging obsticles that slam in front of me or enemies that are flying in to attack me the camera angle at some points is so bad that large objects are blocking my view and I fall down a pit that I had no chance os seeing or am attacked by an enemy that I did not see coming. Unfortunately this happened quite often in the short time that I played. It happened enough that I lost interest in playing. If the right thumbstick controlled camera angle or if when I started moving horizontal on the screen the camera auto adjusted to a from behind view this would have made the game more enjoyable and playable. Currently the way to play is that if yoiu fall down a hole that you couldn't see you need to memorise where that hole was to avoid it when you restart at the last check point.