Crimson Oath

I don't write many reviews but this is an exception. The game is legit. Very very fun. Like others have said, feels like DS and sekiro had a baby, with some thymesia thrown in for good measure. Levels are complex and interesting to explore. Boss fights are very fun. It's not too hard on normal - maybe a tad on the easy side when you get into the combat flow. There is some jank but it's good jank. These folks really understand and love souls games. If you do too, don't skip on this title.

A very good 'souls like' game! It has element of Sekiro, with lots of parrying but importantly you can beat it, I think, by grinding away and levelling up your character, with some parrying, lots of dodging. (This is unlike Sekiro where you cannot really develop your character by levelling up - which I could never master. ) It has nice graphic and fairly good audio and sound effects. It also has a basic story with some NPCs, mini side quests and it creates an interesting and colourful world to explore and fight your way through. I have had no software / computer crashes with this game, so far. The combat is generally good and mostly precise with lots of parrying, although dodging is also important. You can upgrade your basic character's attributes / levels like most 'souls like' games, but no real upgrading weapons and equipment. You only have one sword with two main types of attack and no armour / equipment upgrades - so far. However, you can upgrade your skills (eg parrying, dodging, damage given out, special attacks, health recovery etc) as the game goes on by finding important items [which upgrade your skills / health potions etc ] which encourages exploration. Notwithstanding this, the game is fairly linear - although you still need to explore around a bit to find these items. Although the game is fairly linear some of the levels are quite interesting and intricate in their design. It also has some very hard bosses to beat - that require certain particular strategies to overcome. I found the Second Boss particularly hard to beat and had to 'grind up' quite a few character levels to beat it !!! In conclusion, a very good 'souls like' game with some really good combat and some good level design,. The game is incredibly cheap to buy - its a 'no brainer' at the price. It only cost me about £10. This game is not a very well known 'souls like' game but it should be and most fans of this genre will simply love it! In some ways broadly similar in quality and enjoyment to Bleak Faith: Forsaken although on a smaller scale. However, the combat in this game is much, much better, whereas exploration in the latter game is superior being a much bigger and more intricately designed world. Amazingly, the game is apparently made by just three people ! Well done. I will be looking out for your next 'souls like' game.

Crimson Oath is a game I, like you, probably had never heard of before. In fact, this game only came into my possession via a gift from a beloved friend interested in the developer's upcoming game, Bark Souls; and I was actually pleasantly surprised with what's here. At first I really didn't like it, there's some super jank animations, lack of originality and variety, and other issues we'll get into, but there's surprising positives here that actually puts this somewhere in the higher middle of soulslikes I've played, especially for an indie title. Titles like Enotria and Mortal Shell despite being way more popular were so abysmal I couldn't play past an hour, but Crimson Oath had me at least until the end and for an indie soulslike that's pretty good. Crimson Oath is a by the books soulslike though not really much of an RPG; there's souls and stats but it's basically just increase health, light attack damage, and heavy attack damage. There's no weapons or stamina so you're free to run and attack as much as you please, though to prevent Dark Souls 3 levels of R1 spam enemies will parry your swings after you hit them so many times so you can't just stunlock them. Combat operates with an overshield system I can best compare to something like Halo; a second health bar that recovers decently fast that must be depleted before the real health can be damaged. Your light attacks will hurt this shield and do minimal health damage while your heavy attacks will do health damage and minimal shield, which adds some strategy to an otherwise limited moveset. Parrying is another tool at your disposal here, sword parries are a great way to keep the enemy's shield from regenerating and gun parries are used to stun them out of special attacks. There's also various unlockable skills you can use that are tied to a mana system, though I didn't really use those much as I found most of them far too slow and impractical for most boss fights where you'd actually want the help. Other than that there's equipment, which instead of armour or weapons functions more as an array of little buffs you can attach to your character, which does give a little more control over your build but none of it is truly anything crazy. Overall it's sort of like playing a simpler Demon's Souls, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Now, to say I was pleasantly surprised would be correct, though to say this is a masterpiece of the genre just wouldn't be. Competent for sure, definitely not bad, but absolutely not perfect either. One of the absolutely most insufferable things for me is how sticky the lock on enemies have can be, where they'll be sliding along the ground while doing or charging attacks making it difficult or even impossible to space them out unless you can parry or run away, and if they use an unparryable attack sometimes they'll just slide into you and you'll get hit when you probably shouldn't. English voice acting is of poor quality though I understand this is a small Chinese game and was probably dubbed for free so that's not too much of a problem; the story here isn't really super interesting either so you don't have to hear much of the dialogue anyway. Animations can look bizarre, from your weird parry that looks like a sword attack to the way characters look like they were animated in Gmod for the cutscenes. I had a few glitches and hitches with map collision but really not a very buggy experience overall which is nice, especially after playing the Mortal Shell 2 demo and getting completely softlocked there. One thing of note about Crimson Oath is how little identity it has as its own game, every soulslike is inspired by Dark Souls but this game is REALLY inspired by it. Many soulslikes will try to put their own spin on the genre; Dark Souls but French, Dark Souls but robots, Dark Souls but classical fairytales; this game is just... Dark Souls but Dark Souls. I've even seen evidence online that this problem was at one point even worse, with the game going by the title Red Souls; from the world design to the locations you visit, the NPCs, enemies, it all just screams wanting to be Dark Souls without much identity of its own. The player character is even named Guts, like the protagonist of Berserk which Dark Souls itself famously took inspiration from. He even kinda looks like him too. The maps are actually quite competently designed, they're not linked together in one seamless world but instead entered through portals but it works fine when they're all of decent quality. I rarely if ever found myself lost or confused and there were plenty of shortcuts to unlock which is nice; they even put bonfires next to each boss fight so you don't have to waste time running back if you lose. Now that's innovation. Overall Crimson Oath is an alright indie 3D soulslike, it's competent in its design and execution and that's much better than I can say about several of it's higher production peers. Difficulty is alright, there's some tough bosses with original movesets and mechanics, performance is good, and it's an alright experience overall if you're into soulslikes and don't mind some indie jank. If none of the above is a deal-breaker for you and you can snag this game for $10 or less, I'd say it's reasonably worth your time. It's no masterpiece but it's got solid bones and sometimes that's good enough.

Crimson Oath terminado, 8/10 sólido! É um indie bem honesto, ele tem todas a limitações comuns em jogos desse orçamento, mas é BEM divertido, tem uma mecânica de combate bem legal focado em parry e dupla barra de vida. Visuais bem legais, e um preço acessível, eu achei bem boa experencia final Obrigado @Parry_Frames !

One of the best games. Fast battles with enemies. Fun, and very enjoyable if you like the genre. -Buy- 💀🖤💀

12小时全成就，打折后价格还可以，第一次见魂游打完boss浮现的文字是“友尽”的，作者也是个神人。 作品往往能最直观地反映一个人，能看出来，比起做一个具有红色元素的游戏cosplay赚小登们的钱，作者想表达的内容是真诚的——游戏几乎毫无掩饰地嵌入了从长征时期到抗美援朝的中国历史，而且这种嵌入几乎是忠实的，不难看出游戏中的情节、设定、人名和历史真实事件是有确切的对应的，虚构或者提炼形象的反而少。 很多Boss和人物更是直球对应，比如克拉克对应蒋介石，内厄姆对应汪精卫（卡罗琳可能是陈璧君），还隐约提到“艳电”；文本里也记述了北伐战争，威廉大师（孙中山）的三大理想、新三民主义；几个阵营，红教青教自不必说，金龙家族和赤槿派，对应日本人在东北建立的伪满洲国，圣师军团代表的封建礼教，此外北洋军阀、苏联、以美国为代表的自由主义阵营，也一一有对应。当然也有一些不确定的，比如这个沃尔夫是不是顾顺章，局座是不是指戴笠，山本是泛指还是特指、古驰是谁等等。总体上，这些文本并没有被过度魔改，不会给人一种尬得没边的感觉。 同时也能感受到作者对关卡设计包饺子的执着，走完一关整个地图都会围绕篝火联通起来，顺便一提这个篝火叫支部，原因是玩家每一次死亡，都代表革命者的前赴后继，相当于后继者继承了使命。这是一个很新颖的设定，但是有好也有不好，姑且不赘述了。修昔底德堡这张地图设计非常好，道路贯通，机关巧设，对应的支线任务要稍微思考一下才能完成，能够感受到开发者的巧思和野心。 但也并不全是好的体验，且不说为了图省事在岛上放的那个毫无牵引的浮空电梯，就修昔底德堡的图书馆层，有个墙角可以掉下去但无法出来，只能用道具返回篝火。后期地图几乎没有再设置合理视距，射手怪可以超远程放法环里的罗蕾塔的大弓（单发）和罗蕾塔的绝招（四发），还都需要绕路才能击杀。在一个暗示重庆白公馆（渣滓洞）的监牢里可以捡到小说《红岩》，监狱里关的小怪遇见玩家很不合理地自爆了等等。 合理的视距和静步背刺、斩杀是这款游戏的亮点。玩家能同时安插20个装备，过图非常强力，这是它作为类魂很独特的优势。但是很明显技术力是有限的，所有的敌人都是“站在地面”上的，这导致即使有伏兵也只能依赖视野盲区，除了多放怪别无他法，敌人种类不多，并且游戏也没有提供很多种对策，很多特定的关卡或环节，很明显较轻松的解法只有一种，其他的各种系统（弹刀、闪避、枪反等等）有时作用极为有限，个别场景中，有一种开发者教你玩游戏的感觉。 另外，作为几乎纯意识形态的魂游，我必须提醒一点，尽管能感受到开发者是有想法的、有愿景的，但游戏上架Steam，作为商品它必然面临消费者的审视，而其中的许多建议并不乏合理性。深红誓言的红色隐喻在喻体上能够成立，根本原因在于它是嵌入式的，而非建构的，开发者忠实地将原型融入了设定，但游戏场景几乎不具备任何合理的解释——为什么打赤槿队的场景中会出现大号的螺旋剑？好像一边在打鬼子，一边致敬小高；为什么鹰神阵营全是类似纹面北欧人？并且几乎全员会冰霜魔法；为什么青教总部城外有几个元素生物，打死还掉红教宣言，难道是映射土地革命吗？诸如此类的割裂感充斥其中，不难意识到设定之所以成立，是因为它就是以真实历史为原型的；但这种原型没有融入游戏，而是与游戏设计并置。开发者的可贵之处在于，没有为了游戏的合理性而曲解设定，但这也使得游戏本身只是一个容器，没有发挥媒介的优势。 想要表达思想，这是可贵的，但要努力让表达的工具与思想本身对齐；或者站在纯技术的角度实现“否定之否定”。我看到作者在一些不推荐的评价下褊狭、自负的回复，这种倨傲显然是游戏问世的原动力，但也是更进一步的阻碍，这种现实里的“拒绝的刺”，游戏中“我们来过”的个人主义自我感动，恰恰是“麦克斯韦”思想所反对的。归根结底，深红誓言即使更加精良，它也只能作为一个粉丝向作品来看，只不过粉的对象具有特殊性，它对这个时代的社会问题没有提供任何建设性隐喻，有的只是对前现代瑰宝作为镇静剂效应的依恋。如果没有更加放之四海而皆准的品质，最终只能沦为左翼高中生键政小团体的身份图腾，这是开发者应当穿越的幻想。

very good game and performance, respect the dev really atmospheric.

[b] 一款类只狼的国产游戏，整体来说优缺点比较明显，小地图的设计相关还算不错，大地图整体设计稀烂，BOSS相关设计的比较一般没什么太大的亮点，但整体来说算的上一款及格的作品还是可以一玩的。有三种不同的难度，有一定魂游基础的可以直接选择最高难度。 首先游戏本身缝合很多玩法，这个双血条的设计，不清楚更早的游戏中是否有过，但我记忆中是另一款游戏记忆边境，正好那款游戏是战斗爽快，地图稀烂和本作相比恰好相反。 游戏只有一种武器，主要的攻击方式平a或是弹刀来破黄条，重击或是技能来破红条，在游戏过程中会逐渐获得不同的被动技能和主动技能可以自由的搭配选择自由的玩法。这游戏在推图过程中如果使用的血瓶少会额外的增加一些魂量。 关于游戏中的BOSS战来说，前期的BOSS相当于血多的杂兵，中后期的BOSS基本设计理念全是那种平A自带位移，时不时增加一点范围伤害，游戏有四种不同BOSS招式对应，最普通的枪反，下砸式的弹刀，类似识破的闪避，和只能躲避的抓取或是高伤害招式。说实话设计的还算挺丰富的玩法，但搭配上这双血条来说就很折磨，尤其是后面的几个BOSS，到处乱飞还不断回复黄条，二阶段设计的也挺无聊的，大部分都是增加属性伤害和aoe伤害，按正常逻辑来说应该是某种破绽很大的招没有反制后会增强BOSS本身。 怪物的视野范围就当制作组的怜悯把，但凡两个精英怪就是被围殴领盒饭的下场。 这游戏最需要改进的就是它这弱智的锁定，很多情况你身后有怪，你要拉扯一下攻击距离，结果锁反面了，有时候还需要再按一下才能接触，还有大型怪精英怪BOSS经常会将玩家本身堵死在角落中，当然要是说这也是一种玩法那我也无法反驳，最后便是这游戏中最恶心的弓箭手了，这游戏本身没有远程攻击手段，弓箭手这玩意仇恨还远，而且很多时候不止一个，仁王那种弓箭手加近战是本身可以使用弓箭，这游戏只能跑加上跳劈。 整体来说作为第一部作品来说还是值得称赞的，希望后续作品会更加优秀。 [/b] 关注或加入群组 ，蒂蒂评测，答辩走开 https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43568093/