Alruna: End of History

it's SO nice to have a good metroidvania that doesn't also have souls death mechanics tacked onto it. a bunch of fun and really interesting mechanics to work with in a game that's not overly hard for the sake of being hard. huge recommend from me!

I've really enjoyed ther metroidvania exploration so far in this game. It's everything that I want to see and nothing that is particularly in the way. The music is actually really good sounding with what seems to be quite a few unique tracks for the varous different zones that are in the game. The power ups and movement tech the game teaches you are very fun to pull off. And the acompanying puzzles with each tech and room has been fum to do. And the lore / worldbuilding presented seems very interesting, I will say that the majority of the boss fights are very easy if you have played a video game before.

Much like the first game (“Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists”) I found this game fun, but short. It’s also not especially difficult especially as the added mechanics and upgrades can end up largely trivializing parts of the game. These added mechanics do make the brevity of the game more noticeable as many mechanics only get used a few times. Still, it’s not hard to recommend if you enjoy the genre and don't mind the shorter length.

Very fun and open ended metroidvania by the same people who made Alruna: End Of History (No way?!) Big fan of the OST in this one, some of the writing being based on song lyrics is also neat Hopefully these devs keep making more gems like this

A little disappointing after I enjoyed the first game. More elements have been added to the gameplay mechanics (eg. elemental powerups) and that made exploration a little more "involved". I'm not sure if it's me or if there's a bug (I think the only way forward is through a rotating path that I accidentally locked in the wrong direction) but I just can't find my way to the next new area after re-treading the entire map (so far) at least 4-5 times. Unfortunately, I reached my limit in terms of "caring" to continue because I get frustrated after so many attempts. While not horrible, this is something like a 4 or 5 / 10 while the first is easily a 7 or 8.

An improvemnt in some ways over the previous game, and a regression in others. First of all there's no more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ whip, now you have a gun which is way easier and less clunky to use. You can fire the gun downwards while in the air to get a boost, which can be done about 5 times before you start losing height. These boost jumps make traversing the world a lot easier because you're no longer constantly charging super jumps. Speaking of super jumps, I still don't know why they're in the game. Just like last time, the number of situations where they're required is few and far between. Why wouldn't the normal just just have a variable height by holding or tapping the button? Would make the game so much smoother. Still on the topic of traversal, getting around might be much faster but navigation is way slower. Gone is the warp that let's you easily travel to the central point of the map. Instead you pretty much have to walk everywhere, which takes forever, and is not always straightforward due to many one-way paths which required you to go around or loop back through them. There are warp points in the game, but they're basically useless as they're not linked together, they both…