World Pole Stone Dusk: Diadem of the Pole

I'm very bad at this game.

short and sweet

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!