Dust: An Elysian Tail

Metroidvania light with beat 'em up elements. Played with an x-box controller. What you need to know: -There is a world map, leading to discrete metroid style areas. Bite sized, easier to traverse, you'll be going back often as you unlock new abilities. -Otherwise, very linear. -Beat 'em up style. Hey, another group of 4-7 enemies in a row! Fairly mild with only a few combos all given to you at the start. -You can grind for xp, gold, and drops. There are rings that give bonuses for those. Shops stock new materials after you sell them, so sell away then save your gold and buy what you need when you need it. -Food heals you instantly and is nearly unlimited. Worst case scenario you can just stock up on healing items and tank till you win. -It's a decent story for an amnesiac protagonist plot. Character driven. -It's a cast of furries but it doesn't get weird. Good art and animation. -Read the notes, they are important. Some notes for a 12 year old game: What is wrong with the sound mixing? Some voices are very soft. Then, when it goes to a cut-scene, the audio is twice as loud! The long bridge treassure is very weird to get. FYI, you have to fly by jumping and using the dust storm near the right side of the bridge. Gather up lots of flying enemies.

Though I generally dislike games in the Metroidvania genre, I found the combat in this game quite enjoyable, if not too complex. It is fun to juggle enemies! :) The game's presentation isn't my cup of tea, but it's far from terrible, and the story... well, it didn't capture me, anyway. 5/10?

stampylongnose was never a cat and i've been upset about this for over a decade and nobody ever believes me and i want to kms over it so fkng bad

Worthwhile MV! I like it!

mind-numbing button masher with furry aesthetics NO THANKS

The game gives you all the combat abilities in the beginning. Technically except 2 spells which mostly doesn't matter much. The gameplay is very repetitive and you'll be doing the same combo over and over throughout the whole game. But the story and art style off sets that. The highest difficulty isn't even hard later on when the game gives you strong equipments so easily. Stats is just do more sword damage, magic damage, more health, or more defense. Combo give extra EXP and kind of doesn't matter. The parry is really strong against single target with large amount of HP but terrible when fighting hordes of enemies and it is strong due to large damage increase against the parried foe. It is a metroidvania so you'll see generic abilities like the wall climb and double jump and backtracking for collectibles to 100% achievement. Over all, 8.5/10. Repetitive but still fun. You're getting your money's worth in terms of gameplay time if you go for 100% achievement.

Just keep going right and the game will crash eventually