Bleak Sword DX

Really love the challenge this game brings to the table since the map sizes are not that large but oozes with style. The music fits really well the overall style and gameplay and only gets better the deeper you get. The game first released as a mobile game but this version greatly expands on it and is even better with a controller. Def worth checking out just for the challenge alone <3

Hyper minimalistic retro game visuals, snappy and tight gameplay, good hook and loop, amazing soundtrack! Its a nice and cool little game with levels that doesnt overstay their welcome. The only negative I have to say about the game is; for as cool as the visuals are they're also very one-note which made me disengage after a while. Some more variation for the eyes would have been ideal.

Excelente juego con una estetica retro! Me hace recordar aquellos años en los que se jugaba con el atari. Además las animaciones previas a los bosses le dan un toque de seriedad al juego.

Game gives you a parry mechanic but it might as well not exist. it is semi useful until the late game where it is useless and few enemies have attacks that can be parried. Also has a lot of enemies that are interesting and are different from each other but soon there are multiple "variants" of "big guy with big weapon that you can't parry and deals massive damage" that are barely unique. It's way of making it challenging it just giving every enemy lots of health and damage and spawning multiple big enemies until every single level feels impossible, slowly making the game boring and repetitive. The bosses are honestly fun to fight and are interesting until you reach the dude that is set up to be a dramatic fight and is the reason why the game's events are happening in the first place and he is once more just a big dude with a sword that deals massive damage with nothing interesting about him.

it feels and plays like a little mobile game, a time killer. It's a shame because the art, cutscenes and the overworld are great to look at and play in; this game went down to 2 bucks with steam sales so i thought why not give it a try, it's the art that drove me to buy it. But unfortunately the gameplay loop is very repetitive, it's some kind of roguelike survival game (with souls combat), but the way it's pulled off is very artificial and forced. You enter a level which is basically a plane with some decorations, attack, dodge, kill enemies, then you gain exp and get onto the next level, repeat for at least 12 times. The game uses this old styled arcade formula you would see on some old games, which is not bad per se, but it just doesn't mix well togheter with the overall game. This game would be way more successful if the levels were connected somehow, if you added some story elements, i don't know even puzzle elements as well? Levels should have meaningful things inside, gimnicks. It's very much lacking, invest your time in something better