Demon Tides

A very open ended, technical feeling platformer with a huge customizable moveset. But at the same time it's pretty chill and you can place checkpoints almost anywhere. Reminds me a little bit of Hat in Time if it was just set in a giant open world. It can look a bit rough with same assets getting reused in a lot of places (+ it probably didn't have the biggest budget available), but I've had fun exploring it so far and it feels like it's got a lot of content especially if you go for full completion. The graffiti system can be a lot of fun too and you can get surprisingly creative with it. Plus I like the characters and the humour, and it lets you play it in whatever way you like. So yeah, solid and enjoyable platformer imo, just don't set your expectations way too high.

Undercooked is how I'd describe this game. It clearly had an interesting concept but everything just feels like it's lacking polish on some level, just all sorts of minor things that make the experience more annoying. For instance, there's a race, with rotating platforms and stuff, but their cycles don't reset when you restart the race, so on any given run at it(and you cannot see them from the start so you have no idea where in the cycle they are), the race might behave in two different ways. It also does the standard platformer thing where you have a lock-on dash attack that you need to use to navigate stuff as well as kill enemies... but the lock-on really only functions when it feels like it, so it always feels random whether it works or not. Which isn't to speak of the outright bugs, like in the tutorial area where I got whanged by a spiky obstacle and it smashed me through the terrain into an inescapable void. On the bright side, the game also gives you the option to set your checkpoint anywhere, theoretically making repeat attempts at stuff not painful... but it also comes with some occasionally arbitrary limits on where you can place it. And when it's combined with the aforementioned buggy race where any error fails the race(because the track is airborne and going off it is an instant loss) and forces you to do the whole thing over... it doesn't help all that much. There are also some odd choices like your horizontal dash, arbitrarily, in one stage of a jump(during the glide) becoming a vertical ground pound attack instead, which makes jumping navigation feel odd an unintuitive sometimes. Plus you have a second form(intended for horizontal speed) where you lack most of your jump options(no glide or double jump) which, again, messes with my muscle memory and makes it harder to gauge which jumps you can make in that form. Lastly the writing is just... bad. It tries really hard to be funny and it just never is. It feels like the only people who put eyes on it were an insular group with their own sense of humour that just didn't match anyone else's. Excellent soundtrack, though. Just wish it was in a better game. There are absolutely better platformers you can have for the same price, so I do not see any reason to pick up this one.

Dialogues are horrendous - did Americans make this?

Alright so, I would say this game is a 6.5/10 or 7/10 As a fan of platformers, and by extension 3D-platformers, I had a blast playing this. Gigantic fun on the demo But there ARE significant flaws holding this game back from being a 10/10 or even an 8/10 First the good: Controls are smooth, the talismans allow for funny and unique builds to do funny stuff, and generally the game looks really nice. I love it whenever I can experiment builds and specific pathings, and this game allows me to do that. Not to mention the challenge-worlds like Mr. Mints and DK's were an absolute gem to play. I really love those seperate sections in the game. I only wished DK's sections werent ONLY in the last world of the game... I would've loved more! This game has really scratched the platformer-itch that I had, and I will say I am happy with the money I've spent. I've 100%'d everything and I had a lot of joy doing so. That being said, however... The bad: - Holy crap the dialogue is cringe. And I do not just mean DK, bc his 'cringey behaviour' IS explained about 60% into the game. It's for all characters because the dialogue feels like it's supposed to give off 'youthful' and 2000's vibes, but it does not. - The game is hilariously easy. I mean it. If you get the 'White Bubble' talisman (u get it in the first world), you have basically won the game. It's basically just an extra free jump and it allows you to bypass a lot of challenges and even correct jumps you've missed for no cost whatsoever. It's optional, sure, but since time-challenges are often very tight, just makes it weird that the parkour aspect is so easy... ESPECIALLY for a parkour-game (Not to mention the snake-form is busted as hell for a lot of parkour sections, suprisingly) - I've never played Demon Turfs, but somehow I feel like I'll enjoy that more? Not only do I think Beebz's Demon Turf's design is way better (an ABSOLUTE shame the 2D and Pixel-art talisman dont give you those designs as skins) but I also think this game being open-world with sea-traveling harms the game more than it does good. It's fun at first, but you'll get sick of that sea-traveling-ost and 30 seconds of holding the boost-button, god bless the teleport-function - The hub is... useless? Not much unique dialogue in there... Midgi's shop has like 1 or 2 talisman worth getting early-game? He doesn't make new ones often, so I basically never went there anymore. I only really went for Luci's clothing store - The game feels slow. The reason I think the snake-form is busted is because a lot of horizontal parkour seems to forget you can start a dash from snake-form. This has allowed me to skip past a lot of obstacles. But it also showed me that the game was supposed to be played slower? I feel the game could've benefitted a lot from being faster and more responsive in general. So in general, it may SEEM like I'd hate the game But it's so good, just dissapointing in some aspects... I just hope if this gets another sequel, the game will be harder and faster paced and it will definitely be a 8/10 or maybe even a 9/10

Loved it! I could recommend this game just for the controls, exploring the world is incredible satisfying and one of the best experiences I had in a 3D platformer. It is much easier than the previous games in the franchise because of the improved controls tho. The soundtrack is really catchy and I hope it becomes available for purchase here in the future! Pretty happy to see that 2Mello has worked here too! Love his works! The characters looks GREAT in 3D! The way they transitioned from 2D sprites to the 3D World is 10/10. The facial expressions are pretty cute, but a bit weird sometimes. The unique donwside I have for this game are the cutscenes; they are very VERY unpolished and awkward to watch sometimes. The only moments where they don't look bad is when the characters aren't moving at all. Maybe that happened because of time constraints? Really hope the cutscenes get a bit more love in a future update. Overall a solid 8.5/10 just for the controls and art direction. haven't had this fun with a 3D Platformer since A Hat in Time. Hope to see more from this franchise in the future! Cheers.

Like the first game, but with the cringe ramped up to 11 and copious amounts of daddy issues sprinkled in.

Super Mario é a franquia mais famosa dos videogames e isso faz com que tenham literalmente milhares de jogos no mercado tentando imitá-lo. O que esses jogos não parecem saber é que o motivo de Super Mario fazer sucesso, além de seu nome obviamente, é que a sensação de joga-ló é como se fosse a de estar em uma montanha russa: temos momentos alegres, mas também temos momentos tristes, assustadores, emocionantes e desafiadores no meio. E o único jogo que entendeu isso até hoje se chama A Hat in Time. E agora temos também Demon Tides. O que se destaca desse jogo é que ele coloca em sua protagonista, a garota Belzebu (Beebz para os íntimos) a mecânica de transformar em diferentes animais bem ao estilo Wonder Boy (ou Shantae para os mais jovens) como maneira de atravessar plataformas e fazer piruetas, saltos triplos/quádruplos, planar e múltiplas acrobacias, assim como Mario faz com seu chapéu em Super Mario Odyssey. Se os level design aqui dá a impressão de que as plataformas foram colocadas de forma aleatória, é interessante que seja usado como uma forma de ressonância ludonarrativa, mostrando o reino todo fragmentado, tão fisicamente destruído quanto o mental e o emocional do patriarca que o reina. O principal defeito de Demon Tides é que ele é uma sequência direta de Demon Turf e o jogo já parte da premissa de que você jogou o primeiro jogo. Temos duas longas fases de tutorial pois você já sai sabendo fazer todas as manobras que passou o primeiro jogo aprendendo. De qualquer maneira, Demon Tides é um jogo de plataforma muito acima da média, assim como seu antecessor Demon Turf em um menor grau. ... Trecho extraído do texto “Um ano de Gamerudito”. Para ler o texto completo com review de outros games basta acessar o link abaixo. Não é monetizável, não tem fins comerciais. https://gamerudito.substack.com/p/um-ano-de-gamerudito

Aunque algo excesivo para mi gusto, Demon Tides consigue ser un plataformas estupendo. Muchísima identidad en su diseño de niveles, con un formato que ya bebe de su anterior entrega pero dispuesta en un mundo abierto encantador, alejándose del feísmo de Demon Turf a través de una aventura que se siente muy veraniega. En cierta medida hay mucho de Super Mario Sunshine en Demon Tides, el mar como conector fundamental, la separación entre localizaciones que forman un todo "coherente", un set de movimientos explosivo que apuesta más por la versatilidad que la precisión, incluso los odiados (desde luego no por mí) niveles que te quitan partes fundamentales de tu movimiento para poner a prueba el resto de tus habilidades. Pero Sunshine era un juego increíblemente compacto, como cualquier Mario 3D, un juego dedicado constantemente a iterar sobre sí mismo con ideas apiladas una encima de otra, pero, a diferencia de la mayoría de Mario modernos, era un juego que intentaba y conseguía apretar las tuercas mediante un diseño bastante más exigente de lo normal. Demon Tides juega una baza parecida en esto último, a veces derivando en secciones que se sienten injustas, pero con un esqueleto fundamental para su movilidad tan fantástico que creo que ni una sola vez he terminado pensando que era un problema del juego y no mío. Donde no termina de apuntalarse es en todo lo que no tiene que ver con esos microcosmos de sus niveles, la navegación por el mundo abierto entre islas es un trámite tan insustancial que, aún prefiriendo esta estructura a la de los niveles para dotar de cohesión a su mundo y de sorpresa al descubrimiento de cada localización, los paseos están tan relegados al trámite que pesa dentro de una experiencia que quiere ser constantemente gratificante. También, y por el motivo contrario, se siente un juego algo hinchado de más, con demasiados coleccionables insustanciales (las monedas para comprar vestuario y talismanes se convierten en innecesarias a partir de las primeras ¿5? horas), demasiados modificadores, demasiado de todo lo que no tiene que ver con la base fundamental de capturar engranajes y explorar los islotes. El tono de su mundo y de sus personajes es bastante mixto, un poco gen z sin serlo, algo impostado (aunque el juego hable ligeramente de ello en una de las mejores escenas que tiene), nunca llega a ser especialmente carismático aunque los valores de producción disimulen bastante la jugada con un diseño artístico estupendo y unos modelos con bastante carisma. El punto fuerte y su baza fundamental está en un moveset delicioso, con muchísima variabilidad en sus habilidades para combinar movimientos que se sienten, por lo general, bastante precisos y una apertura en las builds de talismanes que consiguen dar un halo de personalización bastante único dentro del género. Fabraz sabe, y pone todos los huevos en la cesta, que Demon Tides vive y muere en la plasticidad de sus movimientos, y consigue hacer uno de los plataformas 3D más estimulantes del panorama indie expandiendo con una mano excelente lo que en Demon Turf a mi parecer se quedaba algo justo. Espolvoréalo con una banda sonora entretenidísima de escuchar, un diseño de niveles que sigue proponiendo tantas ideas nuevas en la hora 3 como en la hora 15, destilando imaginación en sus escenarios y dándonos panorámicas preciosas de su mundo y es difícil no ver a Demon Tides como un plataformas 3D rotundísimo a pesar de sus aristas.