Duskfade

Duskfade wears many sixth-gen influences on its sleeve and delivers a very satisfying action-platformer with satisfyingly tight controls. Levels are full of challenges and secrets to traverse with an ever evolving moveset as you progress. Mob fights can be a bit messy in larger numbers due to lack of stagger and disperate attacks that don't work well in tandem. Boss fights on the other hand are a definite highlight and do a great job marrying both combat and platforming prowess to come out on top. All around a very enjoyable adventure in a beautifully realized world that feels like a lost PS2 era game.

This is the kind of game we needed right now, good platformer with old school vibes but amazing visuals, just joy.

The game is good, but there are many things I feel hold this game back. TLDR: Overall rating: 6/10 Starting with the good: - Movement was smooth felt great - Combat gave enough of a challenge - Character customization looked nice - Graphics were beautiful - Some secrets were enjoyable to discover - Enemies had a nice design With all that said, gameplay was serviceable, and that's the main point for a game. Though now on to the negative: - Movement can have a bit of jank *slight spoilers of unlockables - skip if you don't want to know* -- Rails were annoying to deal with having it all with random crap on just about every rail you dealt with and gets a bit old quick. -- I had some strange moments where certain mechanics just didn't work all the time, such as grabbing a ledge when I appeared to be high enough to reach, but just falls straight past the ledge, yet grabbing it at other times. -- Grappling Hook in some instances felt like it should have reached, but had to get much closer than anticipated in order for it to deploy. -- Similar to the Grappling Hook, Wings didn't always deploy while holding down the button, resulting in just free falling into a pit or back down to a lower area. - The collectables in the game did not feel worth going through the effort of collecting them, especially as someone who always tries to collect everything to get 100% in game to see any potential secrets. -- As much as I enjoyed the customization of the character outfits and blade, it was a chore to collect them and having the forced playback of the old areas once you unlocked all of your moveset. -- Getting the weapon upgrades didn't feel like they really did anything. -- Unlocking music to only stand and listen to doesn't feel worth it, I'd love to have something to change the music as you play, or some sort of usage of the music in the world. -- The usage of the coins to collect viewable cards... was super disappointing. The art was nice, but no fun or function to it. -- Stained glass isn't even tracked, making it impossible to tell which area you found them previously. I'd say once you have found one, it should at least give some sort of indication that you have found one in that area to let you know you don't need to search there again. I don't want to explore endlessly unaware of where I found pieces. The levels tell me I am 100% finished, but I'm left at 87% game completion, which this just feels punishing, not fun having to wander aimlessly. -- Treasure chests with shards made it super infuriating, especially when chests could also hide collectables that you are looking for, but you find nothing part shards while you have the max 9999 shards in your wallet. - Bosses lack variety. -- All bosses have the same pattern... knock down 2 segments of health, and be ready to quickly parkour your way to somehow stop them from chip damaging you to death. Lacks creativity and only fun the first time as an idea, not for EVERY boss fight. - The "magic" or "time" abilities you get throughout the game don't feel necessary, other than the one that allows you to walk through the special gates. That was about the only ability I ever really used because I had to. - The Sword [clock hand] weapon upgrades in the game also felt unnecessary. I would have preferred just having the heavy swing right off the bat and then utilizing the upgrades found in the world to actually allow you to make it feel stronger and break the harder crystals in the game. Add more combos and mechanics with those upgrades rather than any of the magic that was not needed. As far as everything considered that I can think of here, it's a fun game to just run through once, but don't really worry about collectable and just enjoy the game as it is. It will probably take you 10 hours to just play straight without collecting things.

Un platform che sembra uscito direttamente dall’epoca PS2

Nulla da dire sulle cinematiche e ambientazioni, davvero ben fatte. Tutto il resto però risulta blando o monotono. Movimenti non fluidi, poca libertà di combo con mosse d'attacco che rendono il personaggio "ingessato".

Great Platformer, game design is top notch and environments are beatiful.

Obwohl ich Platformer eigentlich nicht mag, hat Duskfade mich irgendwie komplett bekommen. Eine niedliche und traurige Story, die mit ikonischen Charaktären ausgestattet ist. Klar könnten diese etwas besser ausgearbeitet sein, aber für mich hat das Storytelling trotzdem funktioniert. Das Gameplay macht Spaß, es gibt ein zwei Stellen da könnte es etwas responsiver sein, aber ansonsten hat man hier ein solides Spiel mit Kämpfen die wirklich Spaß machen, mit etwas Action, mit viel zu sammeln und einfach einer guten Zeit beim Spielen!