Duskfade

I really enjoyed it, great game!

I bought this game half-heartedly as it was advertised to me as a kingdom hearts clone, it is much more. If you like me miss the six gen action platformers of the like of jak & dexter and rachet & clank and you found chipset.exe (known to the century as akimbot) not expansive enough then this is the game for you. I want to start with the negatives. Apart from some quirk of my Linux installation (only played on Linux without any tweaks) I have two negatives, which both aren't fully negatives. First of all is the bosses, or to me more precise the jank associated with the bosses of many varieties. For example the first end of level boss has a charge where the hurtbox comes too soon. On the other hands we have sadness where there aren't any bugs per se, but two unexpected interaction that make the boss a battle of janks, I loved it. Generally speaking the state machines for bosses seems to be improperly set up, either that or patterns have random timings. The problems are towards the end with two specific bosses. The actual final boss, which I loved, but having three moves that make it invulnerable and one move that is near unreactable, or at my age just unreactable, maybe the timers for those move could be improved. It is harder to appreciate the cutscenes at the end when I was thinking how the boss, with 5% health, chained three or four moves that didn't allow me to damage it, including two invincibility back to back. The other problematic boss is father gaoth, this is a children's game so I shouldn't swear, that said ♥♥♥♥ father gaoth. You can at least try to damage race all other bosses, but with father gaoth you are stuck with the random timing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and hope you won't eat to much forced damage. The other major issue for the game is that at time is undecided in his demands. From the beginning it gives you an incredible movement toolkit that alone would make it an excellent sandbox platformer. But sometimes it would ask a precise sequence of inputs on certain obstacles which is odd. Generally speaking however moving around in this game feel awesome, it reminded me of warframe, at least at the beginning. Toward the end the later movement options are undercooked for lack of a better option. The second to last is simply too fast, often I had to face check the track first in order to be able to go trough on the second or third time, if the track was easy. The last movement option is ironically too slow, and also too free when also punishing you to use that freedom, Generally speaking the last few areas might have been to big and benefitted from having a train. I have an harder time speaking of the positives because there is so much to unpack. For example the story, I saw the twist from the beginning. On the other hand before the twist reveal I euthanized an old man inside a 35 stories hourglass made of radioactive frozen time, the effectiveness of the twist didn't matter at that point. The combat is escalating, you start with a rather boring kit and few hours later you have combos, counterattacks, charge skills and an absurd variety of enemies each quite unique. The soundtrack is a spectrum from "homage to kingdom hearts" to "for legal reason we never listened to the kingdom hearts soundtrack". Generally speaking this is not a game without flaws, but it is a honestly great game. I for one cannot wait to get more of this.

malheureusement il est pas a la hauteur

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Duskfade feels like playing an old PS2 game with all the highlights you miss and the flaws you've forgotten. Beautiful art direction, great character mobility, lighthearted character moments throughout the story. I enjoyed jumping around and exploring the early zones feeling like I was back in the mid 2000's again. The magic has trouble lasting through the end of the game unfortunately. Combat encounters become more repetitive and rewards for exploration can be deflating. It's funny to think about how those flaws can be detrimental to the enjoyment of a game while being so common in older games releases. So taking the good with the bad, its a pretty solid game. 8/10

Cooler Action Plattformer. Erstaunlich Emotional.

Un platform che sembra uscito direttamente dall’epoca PS2