Dewdrop Dynasty

This game is a perfect blend of difficulty and enjoyment. the art is amazing, the enemies are tough but rewarding to kill and the sound track is bliss. the puns were also pretty funny.

As someone who has been watching the devlogs for this game for years. I think Dewdrop Dynasty is a pretty solid indie metroidvania with a few hiccups atm preventing it from being truly great. THE GOOD: - The character designs are really cute and read quite well despite the simple pixel art - For the most part the game controls really well. Platforming is fun and shooting enemies feels responsive - The music genuinely really good, where the more relaxing piano tracks that play in some areas by far my favourites in the whole ost - The level design is really solid and I found exploring the areas to be very engaging, with each of the environments I explored feeling very distinct from one another. - The difficulty I believe is mostly good, with some engaging boss fights that don't feel too broken or easy THE BAD: - I'm about 3 hours in and the game is telling me '42% Complete'. For the price the game is asking, this completion number tells me the whole thing is about 7-8 hours long which is quite short - Retrying a bossfight has the entire cutscene in its entirety play again, which is rather annoying. - Some of the upgrades are kinda lame [spoiler] moving a box is not a power up [/spoiler] - The controls can be very inconsistent at times. On my Xbox controller, the controls on the menus were inverted for some reason. Pressing the A button a single time to progress dialogue would have characters instantly finishing their sentences, instead of each character being added to the textbox on at a time for some reason. Other times I would be moving forward and my character would just stop all of a sudden? Not sure what exactly is happening there. TL;DR: I haven't beaten the game yet, and I do plan to because it's fun, but there are some areas I hope are improved in the future.

Not a fun game

You walk through a world filled with long, narrow passages without any notable events along the way. Everything looks the same and gets boring quickly. The movement is smooth and feels really good. I quit after the first boss fight, which was absolutely uninspired and incredibly generic. A boss that just runs back and forth and occasionally retreats into its shell. Seen it a thousand times, played it a thousand times. Is that how the game starts? Is that supposed to get you excited about the game? There are just too many Metroidvanias out there for me to waste my time on this one. TL;DR: Generic Metroidvania, if you're new to the genre, go for it. Boring for Metroidvania Veterans.

After around 13 hours and only 36% completion (LITERALLY WHERE IS THE REST OF THE GAME HIDING) I have finally beaten Dewdrop Dynasty, and I can confidently say it was an incredibly enjoyable experience. BUY THIS GAME. Especially with the new lowered price it is well worth your time and exceptionally fun and cute. It isn't the best metroidvania on the market, and sure it has some things to improve (which the dev is ACTIVELY working his butt off on improving, Goodgis you legend), but I think those things aside it acheives exactly what it wants to be, a fun and lighthearted experience for anyone to enjoy. A quick Pros and Cons List for those that want it! Pros: -The game is NOW (I understand that it wasn't always like this) very affordable and worth it's price -It has a bager soundtrack, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is so good -The art and characters and world as a whole are unfathomably charming -It has (in my own opinion) quite modest but very fun exploration and combat, both wandering around the map and fighting bosses/enemies were very enjoyable for me Cons: -There are still a lot of bugs (but these are actively being worked on and at an increibly rapid rate) -Secrets are very difficult to find -A few parts of the map feel quite disconnected -Getting Droplets (currency) can be quite tedious and saving up for stuff isn't always fun What I hope will be added/changed in the future: -Maybe 1 or 2 more areas to explore -An indicator for faux walls (like in other games), at the moment it is guess work and is as a result incredibly difficult to find secrets -More Ammolings. I remember seing these in the devlogs and seeming to have a bigger part, which they now do not. Overall I would give the game an 8.5/10 and highly recommend it to any metroidvania enjoyer :)

На данный момент прошёл трёх боссов и наиграл где то 1.5 часа Игру ждал год, и она мне очень понравилась! Однако, в игре есть русский язык, который не работает... Он переводит только настройки, инвентарь и всё, сцены и диалоги на английском... Но мне это не помешало получить удовольствие от игры , но был бы очень рад, если русский язык доработают

銃の持ち味が薄い短めのメトロヴァニラゲーム。 主人公の蜂、Poe（ポー）がなんやかんやで特別な雫を集めるストーリー。個性的で突飛なNPC達はほとんど記憶に残らないレベル。強いて挙げるとすれば火山ステージ入る手前のネズミくらいしか印象は残らなかった。キャラ造形は一部色違いは見られるがコミカルな動きで見ていて個性が出ている。 ’26.7.25現在、日本語を設定してもインターフェイスのみなのでそれ以外は基本英語。英語の内容は簡単だが所々フランクな感じになっているが問題はない。 アクションの基本操作はスムーズ。銃を下向きに打つと少しホバリングするホバリングショットとタメショットによるハイジャンプは結構個性的で好感触、だった。中盤頃に入手する鋼鉄の爪という8方向長距離ダッシュを可能にするアイテムがまず個性を潰す。続けて火炎放射は下向きに打ち続けると少しの間ホバリングし続けるようになり完全に個性が無くなる。これらを組み合わせた難易度の高いテクは1カ所だけしか使用しない。中身はガチャチケットなのと戻りも同様の操作ですぐに死に戻りを選んだ。このアイテムはイベントリのLTとRTに登録して使用するが鋼鉄の爪が占領してしまい実質1枠。 Modという能力、いわゆるスキルのようなものは基本購入で入手する。はっきり言って全く個性がない。クイックショット（初期ステージ）、パワークランチ（雪ステージ）の2つだけでいい。後は入手のタイミングで手に入れた能力を好きなように付け替えるだけでいい。 戦闘は多少アクションゲームができるレベルなら簡単。クイックショットとパワークランチを装着して連打すればいいという、身も蓋もない攻略でラスボスも溶ける。 アクセスポイントがいまいち使いにくい。ショップのすぐ近くにあるのはいいがショップからマップの反対端にあるのは移動がつらい。攻略で詰まるというか少し悩んだのはパイプステージ。セーブポイント先の水位は待てば下がる、これさえ覚えていればいい。 探索に魅力を感じないしこの時点での完成度の甘さで評価は非常に悩んだ。投げ出さずにクリアできたのでぎりぎり良いと評価した。

As of now i'm writing this as a negative review, this is because due to some issue i wasn't warned of prior to buying the game i'm unable to play, everytime i try to boot the game up it just won't open and instead display a error message looking for a specific driver or up to date drivers, 1. all of my drivers are up to date and 2. the specific driver required seems to be only available on a windows 11 computer, mine is windows 10 without the ability to update to windows 11, normally this would be a me issue, but i was not warned that this specific driver would be needed to play the game, additionally the min requirements for the game list windows 10, so there was no way for me to know i could not play the game before buying it, i will give the benefit of the doubt and say maybe i'm stupid or uneducated, and if so could anyone please give me a solution, if there is no solution tell me, i really don't want to refund this game and i want to play it, but if i get informed there is no solution other than getting a windows 11 computer i will refund, i've also tried contacting the devs, or who i could reach, to where i wasn't helped with the in my opinion pretty big issue, i wasn't even given a answer to whether or not this was my fault or not either, again benefit of the doubt maybe the devs are looking into it and i haven't given enough time for them to respond but until i get a definitive answer i will be leaving this as a negative review, again i really do want to play this game, if anyone can help. Please do.