A Void Hope

Beautiful game with a beautiful ending. This is the first game I've ever gotten 100% completion on the first play-through, felt good. Very excited to see future collaborations from this team.

This is a highly enjoyable pixel-art style puzzle platformer with metroidvania elements (in the form of map areas that can only be opened after additional equipment has been found in other maps), let down by appallingly clumsy aiming against most enemies (with mouse and keyboard), and a plot that..................wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll............is just simply not really explained. People are flickering and turning into strange zombies/electronic wolves/electronic bats, because..........reasons?!?!? It's really not explained in any appreciable detail at all. So...................fun game to play, just don't try to understand it, which is a shame because the game is fun enough to deserve a coherent, well-thought out story-line. Recommended, but turn your brain off.

I had no heard of this Elden Pixel game before, but I love their games, so I gave it a go. A game where people are losing their memories and becoming monsters. The heroes travel through the city, one trying to remember and one trying to find a cure. Like most Elden Pixel games, it's a bit of a vania and you never know who is going to turn into a monster and sometimes you don't even know which monster they'll be. The more dog like are quick, but you can jump over them, others fly and are the hardest to deal with. Not the best from Elden Pixels, but still worth a go.

A Void Hope is an OK puzzle platformer, which did keep me entertained enough to finish it, but this game does not really offer anything special. The visuals and the soundtrack are great and the platforming is decent, but the story is pretty shallow and disappointing. Also, I could have done without the enemy encounters -- they're not hard or frustrating, but I felt that they were more of a nuisance. I bought this game during a sale for less than 5€ and for that price it was worth it, so this is a barely thumbs up in my book.

A virus-ravaged city provides the setting for this puzzle-platformer, where interconnected urban areas reward exploration with shortcuts. A narrative about searching for a partner drives the emotional core. Pixel art renders the environment with atmospheric detail. The experience blends puzzle-platforming with metroidvania-style backtracking. The interconnected level design creates a satisfying sense of progression, with shortcuts unlocking new routes. A metro system serves as fast travel between districts, maintaining momentum. The atmospheric soundtrack sustains tension across the experience. Each area feels distinct while contributing to the cohesive whole. The narrative follows a search for a partner through a city ravaged by memory-erasing infection. Environmental storytelling and collected memories convey the story without cutscenes. The relationship between the characters delivers emotional resonance. What begins as a rescue mission deepens into something more personal. The freeze gun provides both puzzle utility and combat capability, stunning enemies temporarily. A randomised NPC turning system means any character on screen could suddenly become hostile, maintaining ten…

Es un pequeño juego de exploración, que no tiene ni buenos puzzles, ni buenas plataformas, ni buena trama, pero aún así me ha gustado. La música está bien, al igual que la atmósfera. No es un juego de terror para nada. El precio que tiene es disparatado para lo que ofrece. Si te lo pillas en un bundle, como en mi caso, es mucho más aceptable.