Arkhaanis One

Great little game! Feels smooth and interactive. Could use a bit more PUNCH on the attacks but otherwise I enjoyed playing it :D

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game store page is made using soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "Arkhaanis One" is an extremely poorly made 2D retro pixel hack and slash side scroller with no redeeming features or interest as a game for gamers. It's slapped together with Godot's 2D engine, and unlike the rather decent Godot 3D engine, it's garbage, and has never been used to create a successful game. It has however enabled a lot of valueless 2D retro pixel garbage to pollute Steam, giving gamers something to avoid when trying to find actual decent games. What do you do in the game? All you do here is hack and slash at various pixel blobs. There's some minor progression aspects but no real meaningful plot or narrative, that's too much work so the devs just went with score attack. As mentioned, the store page features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created marketing assets. While that isn't relevant to the game (which is even worse than the AI slop!!!), the use of AI slop anywhere in gaming is a disservice to gamers and genuine game developers who do the right thing. As a conscientious consumer, I like to be told about these things and I think it may benefit potential downloaders to know what they're getting into. I don't think it's wise to invest your precious time in games from creatively bankrupt developers, and I put AI slop into the same basket as asset flips for a reason. You deserve better. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets or marketing assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. You cannot play this without a console peasant children's toy. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

Very cool game, it's very important to have good timing and react fast and correctly to different things! Even if you're not very good (like me) it is still fun and engaging, I wanted to learn to come up with a good strategy to make it to the end, upgrade my weapons etc.

cool game and difficult if you like a good challenge give this one a try

Очень слабая игра.

[h1]運[/h1] ランダムってうんちだなぁと思わせてくれた。 左右からやってくる敵を倒していくゲーム。攻撃、パリィ、ドッジを使いながらやっていく。パリィじゃないと倒せない敵なんかもいるものの、受付時間が長いので適当にやっていても割といける感じ。まぁそれが問題でもあるが…。 コントローラー専用のようではあるものの、アイテムアップグレードなんかはマウスがないとおかしな挙動をしたので、どっちも使わないといけないかも（環境要因？）。 [h3]良いと思ったところ[/h3] ・お手軽に遊べる。 [h3]気になるところ[/h3] ・ランダムがすぎる。 ・端っこ。 ・敵の残数不明。敵の出現リミットなし。 お手軽に遊べる部分は良いと思った。武器はただ強くなるだけなので、もっといろいろあったら面白いかもと思うものの、ゲーム本編の体験は変わらないだろうからこれでよいのかもしれない。 気になったのはランダム過ぎること。うんち。特にLv.8ぐらいからはかなり運が絡む気がする（プレイスキルにもよるだろうけど）。パリィでないと倒せない敵のパリィできない攻撃が延々続き、そこに弓が絡むともう運が悪いんだなとどうしようもない印象。なんとなく1/2な気はするが、2-3回に1回は絶対に青が出るぐらいのほうが遊びやすいと感じる。 出現する敵もランダムっぽい気がするので、運次第で難易度がかなり変わる。端っこだとこのランダム性が強く作用するのでバッファがほしいと思った。Lv.9-10あたりはスケルトンのタイミングと数、攻撃種類、弓の運ゲーでしかない。 あとは先行入力が利くのはいいけど、コウモリや弓兵の関係で先行入力がクソになるので、キャンセルが効くならもっと遊べる気はする。 各ラウンドにはスコアランキングもあるので、狙いたい人は頑張ってみたら良いと思う（ここのランダム性でスコアに意味があるか謎だが）。ちなみにハクスラ、ソウルライクタグが付いているけどほぼその要素はないような…。

Fun little free game about timing and combat. It really feels nice to upgrade your equips and slay all those enemies, although I had to farm good drops for the 3 last levels.