Echo Rift

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My friend who I play CS2 with said if I post a review on Echo Rift and it gets 50 likes and 30 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 4060 and 1 Kilo of Lemon . So im just gonna leave this here. Help a brotha

For a short early access demo, It's surprisingly well made, though obviously has much room for improvement. What I like -Great Art direction -Killer soundtrack -Unique mechanics -Adorable character designs -Charmingly simple story What I think needs improvement -There aren't any sound cues for attacks, which can make realizing an attack is happening harder -You don't get a lot of time to react to attacks, only about half a second for most attacks, making dodging without memorization neigh impossible for some attacks (Especially the floor spikes) -No Invincibility frames, which lead to me very easily getting comboed into death. If this was an intentional choice, it's fine, but it only really works well if you have more time to react to attacks before getting hit. -Hit boxes for the falling feathers for the crow boss felt very wonky. It felt weird that I would take damage despite the feather not even having touched me yet. -Second phase of the crow boss had a few annoying attack patterns, especially the opening attack. Minor Nitpicks I have - Sound effects for hitting enemies felt really weak, didn't really give much impact to your attacks, and made them feel weak -The abrupt jump…

"Echo Rift" is just another student project dumped onto the Steam store, one of thousands. It's from University of Utah in Utah. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" games, we must still question what value they have for gamers. This isn't a fully fleshed out game. It's the result of an academic exercise and has much more limited value than a professionally developed game. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments. It helps their marketing and makes students feel good, but it puts the business before the needs of gamers. The students made a Dance Dance Revolution ripoff where you control a furry living in a dystopian world (because it's got furries in it) and you hear sounds other furries don't (which means you should see a doctor or a vet or whatever) so you have to dance to music other people can't hear. Seriously don't they lock you up for that? Anyway it's a rather lame rhythm/QTE game that failed hard on Steam Direct because the students didn't bother finishing the game and just walked away from it after they got their grades. The "developers" walked away from this 9 months ago. This is …

Garbage

Very cool and unique Rhythm game with a good level of challenge!