Momodora: Moonlit Farewell

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Music and atmosphere are well done in this game. Map is good and the level design is nice with lots of secrets. Combat is a little spammy but each area has a few different enemy types to make things interesting. Overall solid game and worth checking out.

The art style and music are nice. The plot is ok. The combat amounts to button mashing and the movement feels clunky. A few game mechanics are pointless.

While I've always loved platformers, Momodora: Moonlit Farewell marks my first foray into metroidvania. The art is ever so stunning, and the music in every zone is pleasing to the ear and serves its purpose of building up suspense, particularly in the Ashen Hinterlands and the Demon Frontier. The gameplay requires a quite a bit of button mashing and strategizing for the bosses, so I'd recommend playing around with the sigils, and using different combinations whenever appropriate, like the sigil that prevents you from slowing down when walking through muddied waters. Obtaining the three grimoires is also important to make sure you're thoroughly equipped to fight the harder bosses. The companions are also quite a nice touch, but I wish they contributed to the boss battles by helping Momo instead of disappearing completely. Speaking of boss battles, all of the boss sprites are quite beautiful, and you can see from the art alone that so much of love was poured into this game. But I deduct a point because of that one pesky lily in the Ashen Hinterlands, that was practically hellish to obtain with timed jumps. The plot is relatively straightforward: when presented with a potentia…

A decent little Metroidvania. Nothing really stands out about it, but it looks pretty and I had fun.

A solid Metroidvania overall. The story is nothing special and the gameplay isn't going to set the world on fire, but I really enjoyed the exploration and the pixel art. The main flaw is the boss design. Bosses tend to be total damage sponges to hide the fact that their attack patterns are very simple and easy to predict. To top it off, the final boss is a joke. It is far too easy overall, but it feels cheap because it throws in an insta-kill attack at the very end of its final phase.