Report 25: I like (?) it hard
It’s gonna be a weird one, since I kinda liked it, hated it, and dropped it at the same time.
It’s a space shmup with a twist - you get to transport yourself into enemy ships and use their abilities. You get to do that quite often, since your ammo is limited and ships can usually take on or two hits before going down. I actually really liked it.
The part that I hated is that it’s annoyingly, frustratingly hard - as in, being hard for the wrong reasons. The levels are painfully long, and if you get to
the boss and die, it’s time to start the level all over again.
I got absolutely FILTERED by level 3 boss, and judging by the dev’s comments, it’s just going to be much worse later on. I really don’t want to struggle this much. I officially give up.
So, not a bad game at all. I just suck too much at it.
It’s a gorgeous looking metroidvania platformer.
It fell in the sweet spot between being not as easy as I thought it would be and not as hard as some people told me. While it was pretty hard at times, even frustrating, you get the gist of what you’re supposed to do pretty fast.
The plot is just as fairytale-ish as it needs to. Doesn’t blow your mind, but still tugs all the right heartstrings.
It’s really pleasant to play with Ori’s variety of fluidly combinated movements and attacks.
As I’ve already said, the art part of the game is great. The soundtrack is also beatiful.
Overall, it’s a really good game, even if it can be hard at times. Died 878 times. Dunno if it’s average or I was playing it really leisurely.
I am NOT going to do the no-death run, this is impossible for a mere mortal and you can’t persuade me it’s not.
And then I tried to do the NG+ in Rogue Legacy. “I actually really like this game, but it’s getting somewhat repetitive and it’s certainly gonna take a while”.
And then I tried to play Hatred. “I actually wanted to like this game, but it’s way clunkier and dull than I remember”.
And then I tried Infectonator 3. “Okay, I loved the flash games way back on Newgrounds, but the difficulty spikes in that one are just too much for me”.
So I switched to something easy instead.
Aah, just what I needed. Extremely simple, cutesy, short and filled with silly humor.
The only downsides is that the game softlocked on me quite a few times and deleted my save altogether one time.
I don’t want to sound dissapointed with the game (I’m really not), but it felt somewhat lackluster. It certainly won’t be able to justify its full price.
This is a game with a similar cute-silly-simple style, but its’ execution is way more polished and solid.
While being really simple overall, it can surely throw a couple of curveballs at you sometimes. Some of the achievements are pretty challenging and even made me give up on them.
Overall, a very fun experience.
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