Worldless

one of the best metroidvanias i have ever played

control actually feels very rigid, and the game starts with a too long stretch of "hey, just walk", without any real challenge or something fun/interesting to explore. and the fighting system feels like artificially hard instead of challenging, and gets tedious extremely quickly. but the part that peeves me the most is: as promising as the introduction animation seemed, and the first steps of gameplay, and fighting, and the first bits of dialogue and tutorial... all of the time i thought to myself: "just..... get on with it already" i don't know, maybe this game could be your cup of tea if it seems interesting to you, but it certainly isn't mine.

Wish I could recommend, because the art and design is beautiful, and the combat is unique, but it's massively overshadowed by one of the most annoying platforming and exploration I have ever come across in platforming. Locking sprint behind only one of the characters with a limited use made most of the game mind numbingly boring to the point finding an enemy felt like water in the desert. I genuinely didn't even want to do the extra content, soon as I could finish the game I went for it. The final boss not being an actual fight was massively disappointing, and it was pretty much just a glorified cutscene. I had to put this on the back shelf and playing it again reminded me of why I put it down in the first place.

A short, but definitely memorable game. Played it twice through at the time of typing this, will probably play it again in the future. The combat takes a bit to master but I promise it's extremely satisfying once you do

Great game, peak character designs and art style, was not expecting it to be a turn-based game but it was actually fun once you learn the mechanics. Playing on the keyboard was the worst part for me, especially when I needed to use a third-party app to be able to use my mouse.

Music: 10/10 Art style: 10/10 Story: 2/10 Parkour: 6/10 Parkour Challenge: 4/10 Combat: 8/10 Combat Challenge: 0/10 Overall: 3/10 - I do not recommend. This is a metroidvania-style game that is incredibly short. I finished about 95% of content within 10 hours, including the final "boss", which isn't a boss fight at all. I was confused what was even happening and ended up just standing still doing nothing; it was more like an interactive cutscene with no explanation of what's happening. Nothing you do matters one iota in the final boss "fight". It isn't explained in game; the only reason anyone in the community really has any idea of what's going on is because the devs gave more lore outside the game. Apparently it's supposed to be an analogy for the big bang, one in which you have zero agency over the outcome. It actually made me feel kinda sick because you start with [spoiler]Edda[/spoiler] trying to fight [spoiler]Aven[/spoiler], then you realize that you are [spoiler]two parts of a whole and unite to fight together[/spoiler]. Then during the final boss "fight", one of them [spoiler]gets impaled by a spear[/spoiler] and the other [spoiler]can't do anything to…