Skjoldur Story

Recommended with one major caveat. Music's okay, story's whatever, I liked the art, the nonlinear world design is great, achievements are mostly fair, and a lot of the mechanics used are quite innovative and creative. Most of the puzzles were quite nice, but I'm saying most here because two of the mechanics stand out as AWFUL- the stupid barrel shuffle minigame and the final boss. The barrel shuffle minigame has the barrels move so fast by the second game that keeping track of them is genuinely hard... but that'd be fine even if it means that we'd lose if we blinked at the wrong time if there wasn't the issue with it being shuffled north to south, where most of a column can move up or down and conceal the movement of other barrels, meaning that it's very easy to lose track of the original barrel... and instead of being able to try again immediately, you have to keep on hitting barrels until you die from the bombs or get lucky, and if you die you're sent back to the start of the area. At least the area's optional... though that's definitely not obvious and the reward for beating the area is absolutely not worth it. The final boss made me really consider giving this game a no. It…

a few glitches - game has crashed several times at key points not enough variety in music difficulty isn't scaled well there is a lot of randomness in boss fights, particularly the final boss lots of good ideas that needed more development pretty good game overall. i've enjoyed everything except this final boss fight

Great game but too difficult most of the time

controls are cluncky

An absolutely delightful little puzzle adventure with a cutesy retro style that evokes the style of classic Zelda games. The map is quite large with lots of fun environmental design, enemy variation, and interesting combat and puzzle mechanics that vary it up enough to keep it fresh. The dungeons are a particular treat, really requiring you to rack your brain a little to figure things out. Full disclosure: I did receive a key for this game.

It's an interesting adventure game with some great ideas that can be found on "metroidvania" games and some others that actually make the game feel fresh. Visually it looks great and the exploration as well as it's gameplay mechanics are great. There're only two aspects that bother me a little bit: 1. The aspect ratio of the game feels strange when you start playing, but I guess that's a design decision so in reality it's fine. 2.The combat system sometimes can feel unresponsive or lacking of feedback. Appart from that I don't see any other issues on the game at first as I really enjoyed playing it and solving some of the puzzles while exploring. Here you have some footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NleOzsvl-Dw