Master Key

Mostly neutral review, leaning towards negative. I was going to let the game off the hook since it's not very pricey, but most of my thoughts on it turned out to be negative when I put them on the proverbial paper.  Master Key is a basic, casual zeldalike. Its biggest positive is that playing it doesn't involve constantly going into the menu to adjust your equipment like too many other zeldalikes have you do. The simple bicolour graphics are easy to look at and can be set to a number of different nostalgic palettes. The map is big enough to take over 20 hours to fully explore.  The list of negatives is gonna be much lengthier.   A big one is how clunky the combat is. I hated how easy it is to inadvertently queue up actions after attacking -- you'll often end up moving forward after swinging your sword when you really didn't want to. I hated that you can't run without dashing first. I hated how enemies would sometimes (but not always) ignore consecutive swings, as if they had RNG iframes. By default, you even swing your weapon on releasing the attack button, not on pressing it -- an utterly bizarre design decision that can, thankfully, be disabled in the settings. You ca…

If you enjoy old-school Zelda dungeoneering, this is definitely worth checking out. I enjoyed this one. I got stuck behind a few tricky fights at times because I was stubborn and refused to turn down the difficulty, but I have no regrets.

I really enjoyed it. It is a zelda like game, with a very fun visual style and a lot of secrets to find!

It's a fun game with some pretty good exploration.

If you like Tunic and such mysterious games, play this. If you haven't tried those kinds, give it a try.

EDIT: Alright, it looks like I gave this a positive recommendation too early. The late game suffers from an extremely annoying dungeon and I can't motivate myself to finish the game anymore. ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW: This is the game you thought Mina the Hollower was going to be. I know the graphics suck, but if you want the promise fulfilled, this is the game to buy, not Mina There are two notable problems with this game. - The map does not pause the game - The map does not show parts of the world that are dark, even after exploring them Also, the developer is infamous for marketing this by spamming this on subreddits that have nothing to do with zeldalikes. He really needs to stop doing that.