The Siege and the Sandfox

It's a good metroidvania based around stealth, with superb music and sound design. Nice, agile character and great pixel graphics. The only problems are: * Lots of backtracking. The map makes it seem like you can get through some paths but you actually can't and need to take the long way around. * Lots of bugs. Most are just to do with animation, visual glitches, scripting of AI (looping, invisible characters etc), but in one case I am pretty sure an elevator platform refused to come down to where I was (the buttons to call it remained depressed after it had risen), which prevented me from continuing the game.

I'm a fan of stealth games and I like Metroidvania games (even if they don't like me). This one has a lot going for it. Pros: - The music, narration, and graphics are really nice; they don't distract from the game (besides unclear pronoun reference by the narration at times). - I like the stealth and parkour. - The controls feel rather smooth (probably more so for better gamers. I'm using a wired Switch controller. I think a keyboard would be agravating. - The biomes are interesting to travel through. They aren't as explicitly unique as say Hollowknight, but there are dungeons, libraries, rooftops, slums (a tiny bit so far), catacombs, caverns, temples, palaces. There are some different foes in them and different types of platforming challenges too. - I really like the little colour-coded tick-marks on the map to remind you about the power-ups needed to get through different areas. Cons: My biggest cons are with the map presentation and a stylistic choice of PC pronouns. Map:As you explore you reveal the map. Standard fare there. However when you visit the fast travel points and are selecting where you want to fast travel to, the game reveals all tunnels all aro…

What an incredible game beset by some small bugs and too niche to sell well. If interested, here's my video review https://youtu.be/V-92HIANL8M I picked this up on sale on a whim and I'm glad I did. While a lot of the major bugs mentioned in other reviews are gone, there's definitely some flaws with this one that unfortunately don't seem to be fixed, but it in no way detracts from how unique and memorable the experience was. -Enemies can sometimes get stuck -Your jump height might be inconsistent every now and then -And the main quest where you need to locate evidence doesn't properly mark any of the quests, forcing me to find a community post where the dev explained where the items were, mentioned it's a bug.. yet hasn't fixed it? -The game also HATES multi-monitor setups and often takes extra effort to get it on my main monitor every time I start it up. Aside from that, this is a solid metroidvania combined with a great stealth game, making for an S-tier experience for me being a fan of both genres. The map is huge, you can explore pretty much everywhere after the tutorial (save for a few places locked behind progression), the stealth is tight with you emitting different sou…

Bardzo mieszane uczucia. Gra jest piękna, poziomy ciekawe i gdy wszystko działa to poruszanie się, skradanie, ruch są niesamowicie przyjemne. Niestety nie zawsze wszystko działa, a liczne bugi, ścinki, źle zaprojektowane checkpointy, opóźniony input klawiszy czy brakujące objectivy i konfundująca szybka podróż (która też potrafi się zbugować) powodują że gra momentami niesamowicie frustruje. Jeżeli lubisz powolne platformówko-skradanki o dość wymagającym stopniu trudności - polecam. Jeżeli podoba ci się warstwa audio-wizualna - również warto. Jeżeli potrzebujesz dopracowanego i dobrze przetestowanego produktu - absolutnie nie. Dodatkowo smuci fakt że twórcy sprawiają wrażenie mało zainteresowanych rozwojem gry i poza początkowymi patchami gra nie wydaje się być dalej łatana i wspierana.

I like this game, but the reality that this is a partial recommendation. The bugs and lack of polish did harm the experience alot. The later you reach in the game the higher the frequency of both occur. I hope the game gets updated to rectify these issues, but I am not that optimistic. Especially when I saw the last discount was at 80% after one year of release, also the lack of updates since last year doesn't fill me with the confidence that these issues will be solved anywhere in the future or even ever. Still I respect this game. It is unique and I enjoyed it in totality, even though the bugs and crashes were draining my enthusiasm by the end.

I dropped into a cave to avoid some guards and there appears to be no way out? just a checkpoint, a collectable, and a quest giver down here but I can't get back up. I could restart the game from the beginning but I wasn't really having fun. Very pretty art though.