Plus Ultra: Legado

This is not terrible as a game, but I cannot in good conscience recommend it due to the absolutely disgustingly historical revisionist colonialist narrative, quite in opposition to what is claimed on the store page I might add. So I picked this up because I like metroidvanias, the comic-style artstyle was cool, you get a dog and they talk in the store description about caring about historical detail (a bold-faced lie). So game start out with you as a Spanish conquistador on the way to get rid of Cortéz - I'm game with that, kill the bastard. That doesn't happen, you defect to Cortéz, who is - very realistically - portrayed as a man who is a misunderstood hero that cares so deeply about the Mexican people and respects them, he even is in favour of equal rights for men & women. This continues a while until sigh those dastardly Mexicans betray him and threw them out of Tenochtitlán. Sigh, I guess he is forced to attack, but again the damn Mexican tribes betray him by not siding with him. Sigh, against his wishes, I guess he is forced to genocide two clans to not have them against his back - you as the player btw commit these genocides in the case of boss fights. Then you attack Ten…

Overall i really enjoyed this title. Really would like to see this game get some more exposure as this is a good Metroidvania. This is an uncommon theme and visual / audio style for an MV. Really enjoyed the setting and learning more about the history of this area / period as not one one i know a great deal about. Looking forward for what the developer decides to do next.

Despite some jump-scary enemies and some quirky boss battles, the game is pretty decent and allows for 4 to 7 hours of patience driven fun, specially after unlocking the wall-jump. If you buy it, remember to take deep breaths during Luno's minigame. Progress is not clear and more hints should be placed by the devs to guide the player! While I recommend it, I can not say it is worth 15€ (same as Hollow Knight...), but you won't be mad if obtained during sales for around 5€.

I bought this game with kind of low expectations. I didn't think quasi-historical Metroidvania featuring a conquistador fighting in Mexico was going to be either boring or so absurd it would've been pointless to give it the place-setting it has. I must say I was pleasantly surprised with this game. Firstly it's a very competent MV. It has a good variety of enemies and locations. There's a variety of hidden hideaways and some tough puzzles. The enemies have two varieties. There's local fauna like jaguars, ocelots, armadillos and there's human enemies which include both the Spanish and natives. The fights are mostly fun but sometimes can be overwhelming and you need to resort to some cheese tactics occasionally to prevail. The bosses are a varied. Some are just straight fights with adds that join and some have a more puzzled element to them. None of the boss fights took me more than 3 tries. This is not a punishingly difficult game but it's not a walk in the park either. The tougher puzzles involved juggling explosive items to blow up walls and the damn dog levels where you navigate your faithful companion Luna through obstacle courses to retrieve items or throw s…

A lovely gaym with some great ideas, but frustrating and underdeveloped core systems. The thumb would be up for how it looks, the cool twisted semi historical setting and some cool ideas, euch as the awesome minimap, items etc being shown as edges if the page being flipped. Loved it. Also how you feel like you are in a story.. But.. The core systems of the gaym are terrible. Combat is simplistic and unrewarding to the point that it makes sense to not engage with it. Having to pogo hop and hit barrels is infuriating and imprecise, causing me to run 3x through the map trying to find out where to go while progress blocked by barrel hop onto platform situation. Its terrible. If you could be more precise and determine the exact trajectory of the barrel, like a golf gaym, that would work. But this does not. Most infuriating is that there seems to be no quest log, dialog log or anything that tells me wtf is going on or where to go. I am old. I dont have the time to sit and finish the gaym in a single sitting. I need to pick it up agter a week and recap on wtf is going on. Cant here.. also, why does it stutter when loading between rooms in such a simle gaym? So, turn this into a no combat…

Very surprisingly good Metroidvania. I really enjoyed , maybe not the most difficult but still a banger through and through. maybe fix shields so they don't do damage when you grapple them away.