Dark Light

I really wanted to like this game but after giving it about 2 hours I stopped playing it 😔 1.) for the most part I just spent those 2 hours killing mostly the same kind of enemies with a new one sprinkled in here and there 2.) I don't remember unlocking a single traversal ability during those 2 hours 3.) The world map at the portals and the local map in ur menu are hard to correlate with each other 4.) A lot of drops from enemies were the same handful of weapons that quickly ate up all my inventory space 5.) both the combat and traversal feel clunky; having such an essential feature (parry) tied to clicking the right joystick instead of being one of the bumper buttons made it harder to use as accurately/consistently 6.) why is setting the point you respawn from (aka saving) separate from the portals where you can fast travel, rest, etc?? 7.) I'm playing on a TV across my living room not a PC monitor in front of my face, so a lot of the text for weapon descriptions, inventory etc was really hard to read. It's too small. and yeah at the 2 hour mark I knew I could've kept going until I found more stuff that eventually made it interesting, with how big the world map seemed to be at the portals, but I was honest with myself about not having fun so far 😅 I got it because it's categorized as a metroidvania and I thought it'd be interesting bc I just played another dark fantasy sci-fi heavy-on-the-metroid MV recently but this didn't compare. There are other games out there and if you are here for the MV experience I would advise not doing this one. I think this would've been better as just a dark sci-fi/adventure game but if it's marketed as an MV there are things that come with that categorization I've come to expect and saw none of them in my 2 hours.

Ugh. I could only stand about half an hour. So boring, bland and mediocre. Refunded.

Disappointing. No help with bugs as well, looks like they have moved on to a much worse looking game, so I would not recommend.

Cheap, weird and clunky. So much effort wasted. If only developers played a couple other games in their life befofe starting to make their own.

Im a sucker for this artstyle, its takes a little bit from multiple sci fi and horror genres and makes it own unique palette. I wouldnt really call its a souls like, maybe it has a few elements, its most hack and slash, kinda metroidvania game, the UI, some animations among other things might be a little janky, but the sum of its parts were fun as hell

pure crap - it feels lie a cheap game, it plays like a cheap game, and loading screens are way too long, the game play itself is sad - i keep coming back hoping something has changed, but its crap - i dont even think this compares to a poor pixel art game made with AI, its that bad