The Forbidden Arts

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/][b]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more![/b][/url][/quote] The Forbidden Arts: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The evil Necromancer Voltaire, master of black magic, has poured a spell on the leaders of The Council of Magic. These same six leaders who combined their forces of magic to drive Voltaire far away from the land of the Forbidden Arts are now under his control. A young boy, named Phoenix, with fire magic running through his blood, is about to embark on an adventure to free each of the council leaders from the black magic spell and drive Voltaire out of the land once and for all! The Forbidden Arts is a colourful platformer game developed and self-published by Stingbot Games and was fully released on Steam on the 7th of August 2019. The game is also available on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The PS4 version is due in the fourth quarter of 2019. There are two aspects in this game: the 2D platformer level and the 3D overworld exploration between each of the levels. As you start the game, you’ll be asked to meet the old Druid, Elia. Then you’ll have your first introduction to the 3D world map…

cute game good checkpoints and has save states as well! oh yeeeee good stuff

A shallow explore the maze type game. Repetitive and not fun.

I really would prefer to give it a positive review but too many things are draining the fun out of the game to justify the beautiful art-style and music. Wort part is probably the combat but lets circle back to it in a bit. So, I just finished the game 100% (achievements), and when I started my journey I decided to leave the "Challenge Towers" for later, would make sense, right? because challenge towers when you only start the game with no information about the rewards (if at all) or anything didn't make sense. So, I just did them after beating the game and what do you know the rewards actually boost your HP/Ability charge... yea would have been nice to have during the normal game playthrough. Why hide it like it? who does challenge stuff when they just start up the game and even then you need to collect certain amount of gold first, so playing the game normally first just makes effing sense. So, I'm not surprised I struggled in some areas with the low HP/Charge (especially last boss). The combat is also not great. You constantly run into enemies you don't see because the view is so limited. Most annoying enemies are flying ones especially when they can teleport and shoot heat…

I am pretty torn on how to rate this game because I'm kind of in the middle. I am interested in the story and I like the graphics however the combat is pretty rough. I wish there was a better way to dodge/parry mobs besides just constantly jumping over them hoping they don't turn around and whack you before you land. I died...a lot...

I'm enjoying this game, pretty basic platformer! Love the narrative so far. Its not too challenging but fun!