光之迷城 / Dawn of the Lost Castle

光之迷城 / Dawn of the Lost Castle is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one has a bit of a metroidvania vibe to it, and it had some minigames and things in it... but also part of the problem, the minigames don't work. One of the first puzzles you run into is to shift tiles around to unlock a chest, but the developer never bothered testing to see if it works, so the pieces can't move no matter what you do. What a screwup. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality vector art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals. At least it's using vector images instead of ugly pixel art... I guess that's something. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any …

Stars received: 1.3/10 _ Note: v.6 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.3] Controls & Training & Help [0.1] Menu & Settings [0.2] Sound & Music [0.3] Graphics [0.2] Game Design [0.1] Game Story [0.1] Game Content [0] Completion time (level/game)? [0] is it Enjoyable & Fun? [0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) [0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related [0] BONUS point: Review for VR [N] - if Registration is required with providing PII [No = Categorical] - is it acceptable to Play the Game in 2022+ ? Game description key-points: This Gamash, a castle exploration puzzle, but in essence a crawling platformer Overview: Clunky and very slow crawling game-play, is not it for the modern expectations. non-motivational story, non-inspiring environment and design to keep and willing play after just few minutes.

I finished two platformers right before this one and had no issues with my controller but here it's awful. Had medium issues through the course of game but issues from the point where you've learned [spoiler] mid-air jump and face location with tons of arrows and jigsaws plus springs [/spoiler] properreling you into the abyss cause you have no control of the situation and damn arrows hit you in any case or saws will tear you off. All the difficulty is in lack of control plus projectiles instakill protagonist if occured right above or right below even without touching him. Almost rage quit it. Died more than 100 times on several regular stages. This game have serious lack of balance. Boss fights except final one are just easy peasy but some trap rooms will piss you off. Plus instadeath like in the souls-like games is a way too much for the game like this. It doesn't bring any fun or a challenge. Just boring repetitiveness. I've got 3/6 achievements. Other three seems way too hard for no fun game.