Anyaroth: The Queen's Tyranny

Clever, stylish and highly playable 2D action platformer. The story telling and the imaginative scifi world are good, offering many surprises. Highly enjoyable.

I don't mean any malice in giving this a downvote-- if it were my choice, I would give this a completely neutral review. That said, let's go over the good points first: -The music is well composed. No major bangers, but perfectly serves its function. -The pixel animation is quite expressive, and often charming. -The game is functional and playable-- I only briefly encountered a glitch while dying to the final boss, and it didn't stop me from trying again (dying while the boss phase transitions) -I can tell that a lot of heart and passion went into this project from all of the little touches here and there. And then, my critiques: -The primary issue with a game that is so low difficulty and short is that, if you're going to have a story at all, it needs to be presented well. Unfortunately, the English is quite rough, and there are enough typos in the early game that it left me with a bad impression of the writing, despite the fact that there are some genuinely interesting bits of worldbuilding here and there. -The primary control scheme is incredibly awkward, for whatever reason. putting the majority of your primary control buttons on the bumpers and triggers is not c…

Good action