Mencia. A never was tale.

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Quite a funny little student project. The core mechanic is pretty unique, but you only have 2 lives to reach the end, so die'n retry haters my not like it.

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Mencia. A never was tale. takes a familiar fantasy setup and gives it an amusing science-fiction twist, placing an unlikely heroine against an invasion of strange aliens threatening a medieval kingdom. Rather than presenting Mencia as an experienced warrior or legendary savior, the story introduces her as an ordinary young woman whose normal life revolves around animals and crops. Circumstances force her into the heroic role when she becomes the kingdom's remaining hope, accompanied by Pinchur, a magical sword that provides both her primary weapon and the game's defining movement ability. The premise is deliberately playful, creating an adventure that feels cheerful and eccentric even when its platforming becomes demanding. Developed by Campus Cámara de Sevilla - Centro FP Superior and published by TimberFilms, the game is a relatively small production with an experimental character. Its limited scale becomes understandable when considering its roots as a collaborative project involving students connected with 3D animation, games, and interactive environments. Instead of stretching itself across numerous mechanics, it concentrates primarily on a single idea and explores how that m…

"Mencia. A never was tale." is a student project from Campus Cámara de Sevilla. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. The students made a medicore 2D retro platformer brawler where you play a little girl with a magic sword and you do some procedurally generated, low quality platforming and brawling to save the world from aliens. Whatever. I'm pretty sure none of the students passed. It might make the students feel good about themselves to get this published on Steam Direct (even if no gamers actually wanted it), but this has no benefit for us PC gamers. We have to question the value of institutions flooding the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments while gamers wade through this stuff to find professionally made 3D games. So this looks like an old 1990's A…

The gameplay isn't very fun and the sword keeps killing you at the start with all of his talking.