Astronite

pretty long, pretty challenging, OST is ok, various bosses, story is good, talking bird gets possessed, 8/10

下+Aを押下した瞬間、まるで現実かのような重力加速度をともない猛スピードで落下していく自機に「このゲーム、探索アクションゲームの基礎ができてないかもな」という直感を覚えたとき。損切りしておくべきだったと思います。 回復アイテムを一切落とさない雑魚敵。 5時間程度の短いプレイタイムにもかかわらず、全ての装備を剥ぎ取られるストレス展開を2回にわたり繰り出してくる無神経さ。 死ぬと金を全額ロストするソウルライクシステムと、ファストトラベルの利用に金を要求される謎システムのアンチシナジー。 ある程度進行すると雑魚敵のHPを雑に2倍化してプレイ時間の引き延ばしを図ってくる。 小さいものから大きいものまで、最初から最後までただただ不快感が積み重なっていく。 全編を貫いているのは、キャラクター強化の快感を潰すことに対する制作者の固執。 あまりにもいまどきのメトロイドヴァニアからかけ離れている。 重度のマゾヒストにしかお勧めしません。

So stupidly difficult is laughable I still play it. Do not play this torture of a game.

Astronite è un gioco pieno di scelte di design discutibili a livello di gameplay, difficoltà artificiosamente alta e effetti sonori altalenanti. Ma... si vede che è fatto con il cuore: la grafica è splendida, è curato in tanti piccoli dettagli, è ricco di segreti e citazioni. Mi ha divertito e lo consiglio, ma solo se siete dell'idea di poter accettare qualche sbavatura di troppo.

Had a lot of fun playing this game! I loved seeing all of the influences/references and how it was worked into the gameplay and world. The character movement felt really nice to me overall, and I thought the combat was fun and challenging with a steady learning curve that prevented things from getting stale. The health system can be a bit punishing at times, especially with no health drops, but it never felt unfair to me. The 1-bit style was super cute and it was really cool to see how each area was differentiated with such minimal design. The only major criticism I have is that the game froze a handful of times during my playthrough, requiring a hard restart, but it never set me back a large amount at any point.

Short but fun. Done by a person alone, with lots of love and passion.

Its quick and cute. The early game and bosses were the most fun. It had a couple really finicky spike sections to get through. Only one problem i had with the game really, its a movement mechanic, if you pressed against a wall you wont slide into gaps and just fall to your death. Really annoying to just barely overshoot with the gap with an aerial dash or running out of jetpack. You fall like a brick past any opening in a wall as you fall. I took my time and finished with everything collected in 6hours, its probably more like (2-4h of gameplay, its hard to guesstimate) i spent way too much time doing pointless things and backtracking to the same exists over and over because i forgot what was at each as well as taking some breaks as well as farming for specific upgrades. 15€ euro seems a bit expensive for that amount of game you get but thats what the summer sale is for. Perfectly fine for 3€ something with a 75% discount.

Metroidvania bastante divertido e parecido com os jogos mais rudimentares de computadores de 8 bits, só que sem o lag e scrolling travado de antigamente.