DurDanto

I know I haven't played this much yet, and I'll try more later, but this game just isn't good. I can already tell. The combat is just straight up bad, clunky simple and boring. The level design is simple and boring, honestly boring is the best way to describe everything. Even toggling the attack styles/elements for other abilities feels slow and boring. Enemy attacks are hard to dodge because it's hard to tell they are about to attack, and hitting them makes the attacks delay, sometimes. It's unpredictable really from what I can tell. Even the video shows the total world map. The zones are effectively linear. I wouldn't say they are a straight line, there are some jumps in there... but it's kind of a straight line. No sense of exploration. I could go on. I'm sure people would say "it's only early access" These level of problems don't seem like something early access time would fix. Maybe their second game could be better when they learn lessons from this attempt. Sorry, but I really don't think releasing this in early access was a good idea.

Lot of fun. Has a cool old school feel to it. Should definitely give the early access a shot and watch this game grow.

The game indeed shows that this is still in the Early Access stage. There are many side of gameplay mechanism needs to be polished, especially the combat mechanics. As far overall game is concerned, this is a promising one, mainly because the game tends to balance itself between metroidvania and roguelike. However it neither has full metroidvania experience nor roguelike experience, if I understand after playing this game for couple of dungeons. That being said, the game is difficult in normal setting and I think its meant to designed in that way. So newer players should be prepared to die a lot. There are checkpoints all around, so players do not necessarily start from the beginning. Level design is nice and the lore is pretty interesting. The pixelated graphics and music are nicely done. I hope with further improvements in gameplay, the game will stand out very well.

This thumbs up is simply to help the game gain more traction. The game is still lacking polish. LT button in the menu doesnt work to scroll down, the intro sequence monologue reads like AI, the combat is weird and unbalanced, the animations look good, but I don't like the choice made in animations for certain things. Bhaiya, I wish you the best of luck.

This is a fun metroidvania with a beautiful art style and neat soundtrack. Overall difficulty depends on how early you can master the dodge mechanics in this game. Once you figure it out, you'll find the rest of the game relatively easy to finish. The abilities, biomes, lores are quite unique and so far I never got bored with this game. I'm still venturing, finished 2 dungeons & 3 bosses, my overall experience is really good. Atleast I'm now excited for the next content releases. If you don't mind buying early access games then this is a good one to grab!

Аn important thing when approaching Durdanto is managing your expectations. It doesn't have the metroidvania aspects fully covered nor it does fully cover the rogue like aspects, but both of them have fair amount of elements. Do try this game if you want a balanced experience in exploration & combat because this game definitely delivers in this case. Expect great music tunes, fun challenging bosses and a strong presentation of a mythical story which makes Durdanto a good game overall.