9 Years of Shadows

Fairly decent Metroidvania, with some interesting enough areas to explore, and some fairly decent exploration mechanics. Combat is extremely basic, with you just literally spamming basic attacks and maybe occasional charged attack. How the combat starts, is how the combat ends in the game. You get basically nothing else, upgrade-wise aside from different-colored armors, and enemies that are weak to that color. For the completionists, there's really no "achievement" hunting to properly do in this game, as all of them you can finish in a single save file. There's also literally nothing to do after beating the end boss as there's no post-game challenges you can do, no increasing difficulties, no boss rush, absolutely nothing. My feelings for this game is extremely complicated. Based on the trailer alone, I thought that different armors will give you wildly different playstyles, but nothing changes. I wouldn't recommend this game, but at the same time, I would not tell you to avoid it. I want people to be aware that this is an extremely barebones Metroidvania, and would not satisfy any cravings you have after playing something like Hollow Knight or Ori

[Intro] A 2D Dark souls that takes the absolutely worst parts of the genre to heart. [Graphics] Really awesome stuff here, from the little I saw in my half an hour tryout. [Sound] Soundtrack is servicable, but unmemorable. SFX definitely works. [Gameplay] I can tell this desperately wants to be a Metroidvania so hard, but it fails in the first couple of moments when it really fails to explain any game mechanics at all to you. Look, I'm an old fart, I grew up in the era where you'd read about the game's rules in the manual. EXCEPT THIS GAME DOESN'T HAVE A MANUAL. How does the health bar work? Why am I hugging a bear intermittently to fill up parts of it? Why is there two gems? Why do I have to treat this whole thing like a science experiment? Why do certain enemies glow? Oh because they one-shot me. [Overall impression] While I can respect the OG RPG formula of letting the player know when enemies are BAD FAKKING NEWS through level indications, I really can't say I was fond of the "random glow = instadeath and repeating ten minutes of boring jumping and grinding levels and hugging bear" formula. I'm sure there's a good game in there somewhere. But when you as a dev can't be arsed to literally tell me, the player, how your gods damned game works, how can you expect me to invest time into anything you serve up in said game? Sometimes less is indeed, less.

Um metroidvania muito divertido e com uma jogabilidade diferente do usual. Muito bom.

Шикарная метроидвания + (плюсы) 1) место разных оружий как у любой другой игры, своя механика доспехов 2) идеальная картинка, глаз радуется 3) интересно что есть в локациях моменты где можно попасть или забрать награду когда ты только получишь артефакт дальше, игра так сказать просит вернутся обратно, интересно 4) для собирателей платин, игра для этого очень легкая 5) по боссам их тут достаточно, интересные у каждого своя механика - (минусы) 1) очень бесила это сохранение в этой игре, прям очень, надо поиграть чтоб понять что это 2) иногда игра может вылетать, проблема не в моём ПК, а в игре ВЫВОД: Игру советую так как плюсов больше чем минусов и на минусы можно закрыть глаза, не по жалеете

me la sube

Ultimamente eh estado jugando un par de metroidvanias que tenia pendientes, este es el tercero de la lista y la verdad es que a pesar de los pequeños fallos que tiene y que son totalmente entendibles para ser el primer juego del estudio, es el primer juego no solo de esta lista de metroidvanias que estoy jugando, sino que en mucho tiempo, me recordo de buena manera y atraves de sus mecanias lo divertido que eran esos juegos clasicos de antes