F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

[h2]Sinopsis[/h2] F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch es un espléndido metroidvania de ambientación dieselpunk con animales antropomorfos como protagonistas, un excelente apartado visual y una jugabilidad que ensalza sus espectaculares combates. Hace 6 años los peludianos perdieron el control de la emblemática Ciudad Antorcha a manos de la Legión y su implacable ejército de Perros de Hierro. La Resistencia luchó con uñas y dientes contra la amenaza, pero acabaron siento derrotados y obligados a vivir bajo la represión. Rayton, un conejo exsoldado de la Resistencia sobrevive al margen del conflicto, escondido, pero el secuestro de uno de sus viejos compañeros le obligará a desempolvar su antiguo puño mecánico y volver a la batalla. Explora Ciudad Antorcha, plantándole cara a la Legión y reuniendo a tu antiguo escuadrón, ganándote el favor de los valientes carneros, las astutas ratas o los misteriosos gatos. Es la hora de devolver a Ciudad Antorcha su antiguo esplendor y desterrar el miedo del corazón de sus habitantes. [h2]Jugabilidad / Apartado técnico[/h2] En esta aventura controlaremos a Rayton, un conejo armado hasta los dientes y con muy malas pulgas. Se trata de un metroidvania, donde la exploración y los combates se llevan todo el protagonismo. Al igual que otros juegos del género, exploraremos un enorme mapa dividido en zonas, a las cuales iremos ganando acceso conforme desbloqueemos nuevas habilidades. La jugabilidad es excelente, con unos controles que se sienten ágiles y unas habilidades de movimiento que nos otorgan mucha libertad para desplazarnos: doble salto, dash aéreo en cualquier dirección, rebotar en las paredes para escalar superficies, incluso secciones acuáticas donde podremos bucear. El combate es, sin lugar a dudas, el plato fuerte de F.I.S.T. Dispondremos de 3 armas principales: un enorme puño mecánico, un taladro y un látigo eléctrico. Cada arma tendrá un set diferente de ataques ligeros y pesados, que nos permitirán realizar poderosos combos, incluso combinando las diferentes armas. Además, cada arma tendrá utilidades secundarias, como por ejemplo, usar el taladro para bucear más rápido o planear como un helicóptero o el látigo para engancharnos en plataformas aéreas o enemigos voladores. También tendremos ciertos artefactos para recuperar vida, distraer a los enemigos o repeler ataques. Ciudad Antorcha está repleta de zonas secretas, coleccionables, cofres y puntos de mejora para nuestras armas, así como puntos de viaje rápido para movernos entre zonas. Por último, destacar que F.I.S.T. es un juego desafiante, que nos propone distintos retos y logros donde tendremos que demostrar toda nuestra habilidad en el combate y el plataformeo. [h2]Valoración[/h2] F.I.S.T. es un metroidvania que ha pasado bajo el radar sin llamar demasiado la atención y sinceramente, me ha parecido un juego redondo en todos los aspectos, con muy pocos puntos débiles que destacar. La jugabilidad es excelente, con unos controles muy finos que responden rápido y ensalzan las secciones de plataformas y las peleas. El combate nos brinda multitud de opciones y la verdad es que resulta espectacular, con un enorme set de ejecuciones diferentes según el enemigo al que nos enfrentemos y el arma que estemos utilizando. Quizás el mayor fallo está en el parry, asignado al control de movimiento del personaje, siendo poco intuitivo y confiable. Gráficamente han logrado un gran trabajo, dando vida a unos entornos en 2’5D llenos de detalle, variados y bien iluminados. Conoceremos a distintos personajes, pertenecientes a varias facciones, cada uno con sus historias personales y misiones secundarias que nos recompensarán si decidimos ayudarles. La parte más floja podría ser la historia, no porque sea mala o esté poco trabajada, sino porque se siente simple y acaba incurriendo en ciertos tópicos ya conocidos: un grupo de malos que impone un régimen dictatorial sobre los ciudadanos y un héroe que resurge para plantarles cara. También resaltar que la dificultad, en general, se siente bastante baja, apostando más por la espectacularidad que por el desafío a nivel de combates. En definitiva, si te gusta el género metroidvania, F.I.S.T. es una opción más que recomendable, con un claro enfoque en el combate, unos controles muy gratificantes y un apartado gráfico bien trabajado. ✔️ [b]Positivo[/b]:[list] [*]El sistema de combate es profundo y completo, con 3 armas diferentes que podremos combinar en medio de las peleas, creando espectaculares combos. [*]La jugabilidad en general se siente muy agradable, ágil y precisa. Dispondremos de muchas habilidades para desplazarnos rápidamente por el escenario, como el doble salto, el dash aéreo en cualquier dirección o rebotar en las paredes para “escalar”. [*]Gráficamente luce de maravilla, dando vida a diferentes entornos en 2’5D con todo lujo de detalles. [/list] ❌ [b]Negativo[/b]:[list] [*]Algunas mecánicas como el parry, no están muy bien plateadas, haciendo que sean poco confiables y acabemos por no utilizarlas. Además, la dificultad en general se siente bastante baja. [*]Aunque hay diferentes puntos de viaje rápido, no están muy bien repartidos. A veces hay que dar muchas vueltas para llegar a puntos concretos del mapa. [*]Quizás la trama sea uno de los puntos flojos, no por ser mala, si no por incurrir en ciertos tópicos ya conocidos y menos sorprendentes. [/list] 📢 [b]Idioma[/b]: Interfaz y subtítulos en español. ⌛ [b]Duración[/b]: 12-15 horas juego base/ 20-22 horas para 100%. 🎮 [b]Steam Deck[/b]: Verificado, funciona perfectamente. Lo salvaría de las llamas! 👨‍🚒👍🔥 [h1]8’5/10[/h1] [quote]🚨 Si te ha gustado la reseña y quieres descubrir buenos juegos, sígueme en mi página de Mentor: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45092978/] Indies ON FIRE [/url]🚨[/quote]

Plenty of passion, not enough play testers. I really wanted to like this game, and I did at first. As the game went on it started to slow down and quickly become cluttered with awful enemy encounters and some of the most tedious backtracking I have ever encountered. The combat system is fun at first until you realize why all your attacks feel off is because all the moves have to be unlocked which is fine, however the problem then becomes much worse when enemies very quickly start ignoring your stagger and cut your combos off repeatedly. The combo training mini game examples just how awful and unresponsive the combat system really by making you perform combo strings that do not connect reliably or at all most of the time. I really wanted to like this game but numerous bugs and atrocious performance problems on top a really unpolished combat system drag this game down to a slog to finish let alone one hundred complete it, which I did because I hate myself lol.

F.i.s.t. was a surprisingly well crafted metroidvania, that deserves way more praise. The story and world building were quite enjoyable, the map design was excellent and so were the power ups and upgrades unlocked throughout the story. It is a more combo based action game, with an emphasis on exploration and slowly building your skills to their former glory, as opposed to Nine Souls, Blasphemous and Hollow Knight which flirt more with the souls-like tag. It is by no means a braindead easy game but it's leaning on the less sweaty side if you are used to the forementioned titles . You can easily finish it with less that 10 deaths and that was a nice change of pace for me personally. The game looked phenomenal too, both with max ray tracing on the PC and even without it on the deck, it looked stunning at times. I would often find myself pausing and take my time to suck in all the beautiful volumetric fog, screen reflections and rain effects. They truly nailed the steampunk megacity setting! Highly recommended!

说实话真的不太行，制作是精良的、技术力是优秀的，但是好钢没用在刀刃上。 地图设计上一大堆无意义的绕，杂兵、BOSS战数量少且换皮，音乐是几乎没的叠加前者完全没有游玩情绪波动。 战斗系统上，手感偏硬没问题，主打连招也没问题，但两者结合有点怪。 当然综合看7-8分可能还是有的，奈何银河城这个赛道挤满了9+选手啊。╮(﹀_﹀)╭

[h1] ♡ TLDR ♡ [/h1] Mid little metroidvania that turns extra sour at the end, leaving me bitter and wanting it to just be over. Overall, if I were to look past the final boss frustration - This game is just so very average. Its nothing special - and it is easy to say you wont be missing out bypassing it. There are so many other incredible gems to find out there. I beat it with 28.9 hours but I cant tell you how much of that I was AFK. Howlongtobeat says 12.5-20.5 hours. $16.00 USD seems reasonable, if you really want to play it. [h3] ♡ DETAILS ♡ [/h3] Games like these really make it tough that there is no 'meh' review. There was a few things I really liked about F.I.S.T. and a lot that was just mediocre. However, there were a couple things that I thought were so awful, they overshadowed the good and swayed this into a negative review. [h3] ♡ MOVEMENT ♡ [/h3] A bit slower than I am used to on metriodvanias, but you get used to the style, movement, and interactions between them and the combat. I kind of felt like this game was missing a run ability (or something similar to HK's crystal dash) to move through large sections of the map more smoothly than just spamming dodge. [h3] ♡ ART ♡ [/h3] The graphics seemed ok, nothing to write home about - honestly just mid. The animations were the same. I did however like the style and ambiance of the game. The streets and city lighting was very nice to look at, and the music was enjoyable. Voice acting was ok on some and silly on others. I feel like it could have done without - not only voice acting but the direct narrative. Some cutscenes were unskippable - which was quite annoying when they were right before a boss fight where you may die a few times and be forced to rewatch them on loop. [h3] ♡ DIFFICULTY ♡ [/h3] Much of this game starts out a bit slow and unintuitive. It takes some getting used to on the navigation, menus, abilities and ability tree, directive and weirdly enough - finding the exit game button (I know I'm not the only one as there is a whole /r of people who didn't see it!). In general, it wasn't very challenging in combat or platforming for the majority of the game - which brings me to my biggest complaint. 4 achievements and 3 end game upgrades (per weapon - meaning 9+ skills) are locked behind "Master Wu's Training" which is a complex combo based challenge mode. The multi-string combo sets include movement, attacks, and mid-combo weapon switching that gives you no time to actually do them. When it comes to weapon switching, the animation takes too long to switch and the combo times out telling you that you have failed. After probably 30 minutes of not even completing one combo, I gave up and accepted this achievement was a no go for me. But after looking it up, I realized that it was 4 achievements AND ALL THE FINAL WEAPON ABILITIES... are you kidding me? These remained locked in the skill tree on the final boss and completion of the game - which outright feels bad. On top of this, the entire game is manageable, bosses felt challenging but not over the top - until the very end. The final 2 boss fights you'll be met with the fastest, most obnoxious enemy that makes you feel like the game is cheating. While he is allowed to combo you to death, your combos constantly get interrupted. If you do somehow manage to get him trapped in a combo, the game will just teleport the boss to safety. 'I'm sorry, you aren't allowed to win that much - enjoy wasting your special moves on air'. You may be mid combo, and the boss will just decide its his turn now, knock you out of your combo, and juggle you taking 25% of your health in an instant - unavoidable since you were mid animation, and cant cancel what you were doing. But I digress.... I just wanted it to end, and the final 2 fights pushed me into feeling sore about the entire experience. It did not end on a high note, I didn't feel glad to have played it - but instead grateful it was over. Throughout the game, I wanted to clear the map and get all the stuff as I think that's a big part of the fun of a metroidvania; the combat through traversal and the hidden secrets. I didn't bother though, knowing I was unable to get the 100% achievements with the training challenges made it a pointless waste of time. Oh yeah, I nearly forget - there was a parry... but apparently it was you just walking (movement - Left stick) into the attack at the perfect time? It was utterly useless, kinda cool when it happened on accident I guess... certainly nothing you can count on to save your bacon! [h3] ♡ MAP AND NAVIGATION ♡ [/h3] Takes some getting used to, but it makes sense as you learn the game. I will say though, when you unlock fast travel locations, they seem to use a completely different map - and the locations are not marked in a clear way - so its really hard to know where the fast travel locations are going to spit you out. The quest objective also doesn't display on the fast-travel map either, so often you have to pop between the 2 maps and hope you are going to the right place! This could be done much better - it almost feels like an oversight you'd see in a demo or an alpha version of a game. [h3] ♡ BUGS ♡ [/h3] Every now and then you'll load into a room and the space wont render - leaving you floating in a blue-grey space with a few assets till the game catches up. I experienced some stuttering at times and often an enemy might get punched into the terrain - who knows if they are still alive in there... [h3] ♡ STORY ♡ [/h3] Ok, to be honest - I wasn't expecting a full on furry game - I know it seems obvious, but for some reason I just kinda didn't expect it to deep dive into a whole world of "furtizens". Perhaps its cause the trailers were in Chinese? Either way, I was expecting something... different. Its fine I guess - some may really enjoy the story side of this - but I felt it was very much lacking. I honestly didn't care about the story at all as it was quite boring and the characters were just as bland. /)/) ( . .) ( づ♡ [h3] ♡ FINAL THOUGHTS ♡ [/h3] There are worse games... but there are also better things to spend time on.

Отличный ушастый платформер с хорошим саундом и боевкой, которая не заставит скучать, ведь тут можно очень эффективно комбить во врагов разными оружиями и ударами совмещая 3 вида оружия как основные и 3 второстепенные с разной их прокачкой! Сам левел дизайн сделать на отлично и радует разными не проходимыми головоломками и ловушками с большинством секретов! Также есть сложности - легкий и нормальный, я рекомендую на нормале проходить т.к. больше эффекта от геймплея будет т.к. игра совсем не душная если ее проходить просто, а если платинить, нужно держать глаз наметанным, но за 1 прохождение вы должны платку получить. Рекомендую игру всем, моя оценка 9\10

TL;DR: yes Pros: + Nice world. Immersive. + Looks so good. Graphics very nice and detailed. + Combat can actually be quite complex and is satisfying once you get some combos down that work for you. + 3 very different weapons that you will prefer depending on your play style. + Nice soundtrack (I wish the repeating loud noise on the main menu could be muted so I can listen to the music!) + Not normally a fan of animal-people but it just works with Chinese folklore. + Would definitely play a sequel or spin-off. There's potential here. China is getting really into animated series at the moment (to compete with anime) and I'd watch a series that expanded on this world. Would it be 2D or CG? Not sure. + Later bosses actually require strategy. Mid: ~ Map design: You can tell a good map layout from the bad once the end is near. Once you need to start revisiting areas to collect optional missed things with new abilities, if it's an absolute slog to get from one place to the next, you can tell when the map starts to fail. There are large chunks where there's no shortcuts or teleporters even close to where you need to go, especially the slow and tedious underwater parts. I'm a Metroid veteran so I'm likely very biased here (or experienced?). Starting from maybe Prime 2, Metroid got its act together with traversal. Fusion had minimal backtracking, which is no good, and Prime 1 had way too much, but later games really shine with their end-game maps when item hunting. FIST misses the mark somewhat with exploration and layout. There's no point taking the time to explore while in an area because, unlike Metroid which can get you new optional abilities/weapons, FIST has none. You'll find maybe something somewhat decent like a health or energy piece, but it'll likely be another disk or poster. You're better off just heading to the objective marker and coming back later with all abilities. Some areas feel like a slog to revisit instead of having an itch to get there to see what waits for you. Gripes: - Don't slow/hinder my movement when characters are talking! - Lack of puzzles. There's ONE actual puzzle right at the END of the game but it was too little, too late. - Parry. Instead of a dedicated parry button (should have been L2, replacing the useless "cycle through weapons" button), the developers opted for you needing to be standing completely still and then tap the stick towards the enemy before the attack lands. This can go two ways: It can go the Metal Gear Rising route and be so completely broken it can be abused to remove all danger, or the FIST route in that it never bloody works when you want it to. I can get it to work 80% of the time when I'm actually trying but trying to parry Cicero with him screw-attacking all over the place with the stick you use to move is just not going to happen. Eventually I dropped the parry mechanic altogether and completed the game without it. There is no point in the game where you MUST parry. It's completely optional. - This game is clearly an action game first, an adventure game second and a platformer third. The platforming sections can be frustrating at times mostly due to how it handles. I want the option to be able to swap the left analog stick with d-pad. Precision is key in Metroidvanias when platforming and a stick just feels off for a 2D game. Metroid Dread was the exception because it has 360-degree aiming and also Metroid is the top-dog with a lot of things, including handling. With this, I want to move with the d-pad and swap weapons with the stick. - Some minor gripes of cheap enemy placement just to whittle your health down a bit to force some tension. The boss at the bottom of the mines (the demon hand) pinned me between the wall and itself twice and I couldn't get out so I just had to let it kill me.

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