Prometheus - The Fire Thief

Summary: A good quality retro metroidvania with only a few minor technical issues. Prometheus - The Fire Thief is a retro action adventure game that plays like a sequel to the 1988 NES game Battle of Olympus. It has enough polish and modern convenience to minimize frustration while still maintaining its retro feel. There are still a few rough edges, but they're minor enough to not detract too severely from an otherwise fun experience. Boss fights are the most impressive part of the game. Each fight is unique and well designed, providing a good challenge without going overboard. It requires practice and pattern recognition to succeed but never feels unfair. The lack of a death penalty makes trying each boss over and over a relatively painless experience, adding to the fun of of the challenge instead of punishing you like most retro titles. The other parts of the game are well done, though lack the same level of polish as the excellent boss fights. Exploration is fulfilling, with a good variety of areas to explore. However, while the size of the world gives a lot to explore, it also makes backtracking a bit tedious. Similarly, items are well designed, but the lack of good descript…

Rating: 6/10 Now that I have finished this game (100% completion), I feel that I can give a good solid review of its quality. First, you have to approach this game as if you were going to be playing an old NES title. From the graphics to the music, this game, for all intents and purposes feels like it should be played on the console. That being said, let me get one major issue that I hope is addressed by the developers in a future patch soon; This game has no controller support. This is unfortunate, and I know some people will be miffed about it. What the developers did do, is provide comprehensive key mapping. I typically play emulators of my games when I am away from home, so I am no stranger to playing these games on a keyboard. While the keymapping feature is a big plus, I will admit this game would have been more enjoyable with a controller in hand. While I would like to call this game a spiritual successor to "The Battle of Olympus", I feel that it would be a disservice to the game itself. I am personally a big fan of Battle of Olympus, and after watching the trailer for the game I immediately saw all the aspects of fun I had from that game in it (even the sound eff…

An NES inspired game that plays similar to Battle of Olympus which sounds fun on paper but this game is nearly unplayble from one major flaw: the horrible controller support. I use both a SNES usb controller and an Xbox 360 controller(which uses the analog sticks instead of the d pad to move which makes platforming awkward) and they feel jittery and sometimes ducking and jumping doesn't work properly(I even calibrated both controllers just in case which still doesn't help much). Even if you use just a keyboard, the game gets random slowdowns for no reason. Its really unfortunate because I love NES inspired retro games but the keyboard & extremely poor controller support just does't do it for me. Until the controller support is fix I really don't recommend this game.

FFF Most Infuriating game on Steam. The number of bugs in this game is ridiculous. Some areas automatically kill you when you enter them, and heaven forbid you go to hades without the town portal because there is no way back. Guess you got to start over from the beginning right? Finally recovered all my progress and had the game freeze on me and had to hard restart my whole computer because it kept taking over from task manager endlessly. After restart found that the game had uninstalled itself! Thank goodness for small miracles. Keep this malware off your system.

This game doesn't have many reviews so I figure it can use another recommendation. This game is much like the old NES game Battle of Olympus that I played as a kid. If you played that at any point and enjoyed it you may wanna pick this one up too. Just be prepared to be as frustrated lol.

Fun for a play through