Reknum Cheri Dreamland

Reknum Cheri Dreamland is a sidescrolling action game that really wants to be Zelda, Wonder Boy and Cuphead all at the same time, but doesn't have the production values or game feel to be any of those. It's better than the studio's other available offerings, that's for sure. But it's still not a good game. Here are the positives: - The graphics are simple and won't hurt your eyes. - The music is whimsically jazzy and probably the best part of the game. The devs even included the loops in OGG format in the game's folder. - The Boots of Light are useful for backtracking. - It's a more playable game than VOID or PLOID. Now for the negatives: - Cheri's attack animation looks really bad. It's only like, two or three frames and it looks really choppy. - The choices and use of sound effects and voice clips are jarring. The actress for Cheri does an okay job with grunts, but the way they are used is a little strange. - The old-timey grain filter the game uses is obnoxious at times, and it can't be removed. - The art style used for the cutscene stills is inconsistent with the in-game graphics. The cutscenes are a lot more like the rubber-hose style advertised, but the in-game graphics loo…

It takes very little to make this game break. Objects and the player character will glitch through walls. The fairy-activated switches will just break even after multiple resets. Sometimes you'll even get random crashes if an enemy collides with you. Developers, please refine your product. The cutscenes show that there's a great idea here, but the product is just simply defective.

After hammering every single button on my keyboard I finally figured out that "m" is the sword attack. Why? I already had a bad feeling when I saw no options in the menu but then the game only proceeds to give me controller mappings and apparently the devs never have even played a single game on keyboard before. I couldn't even exit because esc doesn't work. The lack of any options comes to roost in more than just controls as the intro cutscene's music drowns out the dialogue because audio mixing is too much work.

Jesus this is bad..... Please do not buy it.... Most horrible hit boxes. Music tracks overlapping. Full of bugs. Most annoying movement scheme. If there is anything bad with an indie game, this one has it....