World Pole Stone Dusk: Diadem of the Pole

Reminded me of Altered Beast, which is good! Dying over and over until you memorize the rooms and how to get through without taking any damage.

I am not good at this video game but this video game is good at me. 4 whole weapons, you pick where you play em, you have to watch where and when you use em. The art is sick as hell. Every time I get hit, which is frequent, I watch just a little bit more bones happen on the screen. Until it's all bones. What a sick health meter. And it just sits there forever if you want it to. You gotta choose to quit out or retry. I love this game for letting me suck at it and just sit there in the aftermath of my suck. You should buy it on both steam and on itch to give jazz more of your money

Quite fun. The flow of gameplay feels quite smooth and there's a nice learning curve to progressing through each screen. It's particularly nice that (for a game where you have multiple weapons simultaneously) each weapon feels as if they have their own specific use-cases such that none particularly predominate or are made obsolete.

I've yet to find any of the secrets, but this is a perfectly scoped short arcade-style gauntlet. The bleak aesthetic crunches really nicely against the intuitive, pick-up-and-play design approach. Most games with this kind of grim decayed world aesthetic really make you linger in it for hours on end. Here, it's nice to experience it in a small batch. The pace of new weapon and enemy types is just right, each one distinct and efficiently characterized. Ends on an appealing downbeat note.

very cool little arcade thingy

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! It's a game!