Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists

A really fun MV that had me scratching my head at times. It took me a couple of restarts to get into it. I initially thought this looked and plaued like a highschool project, but the more you unlock the more it becomes great. The mechanics are really solid! I particularly like how healing and return home was a mechanic of the seeds that you needed to figure out. The writing is very cringe. I assume its deliberate?? But it kinda fits nymphs fighting mecha undead.

Excellent "metroidvania" that is light on story/guidance and really requires just playing around with exploration to find ways to continue. The short runtime (even to get the "true ending") makes this an easy recommendation.

A real Metroidvania. This game is really fun to play. I was invested the whole time. Some really clever puzzles too. However, being a 'platformy' game that requires a degree of precision, I'm sure you'll run into a bug or two. Still, great game in my opinion.

Хиден гем, хорошая игра с интересным исследованием секретов, однако я абсолютно случайно прошел игру на одну из концовок до того как я даже до финального босса дошел и набрал 100% на сейве, и теперь не могу зайти на этот сейв обратно, как не очень прикольно так делать...

As a metroidvania, this game does its job actually very good (bosses, shortcuts and new routes becoming accessible with skills acquired later on). It also offers enough quality of life support like fast travel and near-boss-checkpoints. Why a negative review then? Well, the gameplay did it for me. It is not constantly buggy, but in conjunction with some possibly weird design choices, at some point it became hard to tell. I do not want to fight the controls. (I should probably mention here that I played with a gamepad.) Maybe some retro-affine players prefer the close-quarter hardships the game gives as part of its design. Funnily enough, there appear to be some options to circumvent some of the trouble. But again, at some point I could not tell anymore if things were simply overlooked or intentionally possible. I finished the game nevertheless, so I do not think it is awful. Just leaving a bad taste that ruined some of the fun. Hint: Check for the ending save lock to avoid some late-game disappointment.

It's decent little metroidvania, but 'focus on sequence-breaking' is a very big exaggeration. While this is not a bad thing in itself, it is main marketing point of the title. So I want to take my shots at it: - game does not acknowledge sequence-breaking - Act itself mostly boils down to knowing where are the invisible walls you can slide into - Some of these are one-way - probably to disallow sequence-breaking that softlocks the game, lol. - Game is not designed around all of them: yes, you can skip the weapon. And likely even beat the game without it. Don't know why would you want to, as, again, there is neither an aknowledgement, nor any sort of meta message about it. - These "sequence breaks" are nothing more than somewhat hidden ability to choose the order of areas you will visit, which in itself is kind of a norm for the genre. Also, there are multiple ([spoiler]2[/spoiler]) endings. Completing one locks your save file, forcing you to either beat the game again or open youtube. I can't help but think that this was made so that players try this "sequence-break" mechanic, but... eh.