Gravethorn

I bought the game after I read the reviews and was intrigued by the visuals and setting. Since it was cheap, I thought I'd give it a try. I agree with other reviewers' assessment that this game is worth way more than 5 euros, so I wanted to write an early review, to advise anyone that might read this, to buy the game and support these talented developers. The game is simple yet refined, with tight combat animations, several secrets and some light platforming sections to vary things a bit. Enemies for the most part aren't the most challenging or complex, but at least each area introduces new ones to keeps things interesting - although later stages have started introducing some more aggressive enemy types, which have proven challenging in a good way. The bosses are fun to fight, and their moves are often easy to memorize, so you'll have them beat after a few tries, but nonetheless the game is engaging and tempting enough to keep you playing - I played for 5 hours straight after purchase, which speaks to the game's fun and addicting gameplay. What surprised me the most was the fully-voiced cast of characters you meet along the way, and how high quality the voice work is for a game this inexpensive. They manage to keep you interested in the several side quests and interactions you have with them. The plot is so far pretty good to push you onward, and I'm excited to see how it unfolds completely.

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Рекомендую. Gravethorn - это прям 2D Bloodborne, только не просто “по вайбу”, а реально с ощущением мрачного, гниющего мира, который хочется исследовать до конца. Город, живое проклятие, корни под землёй и в человеческой плоти, разваливающиеся часовни, проклятые леса, крепости — всё это создаёт очень сильную атмосферу. Мир получился цельным, неприятным в хорошем смысле и очень запоминающимся. Больше всего зацепило исследование. Локации нелинейные, взаимосвязанные, постепенно открываются срезы, и из-за этого реально появляется чувство первооткрывателя. Игра постоянно подкидывает ощущение, что где-то рядом есть ещё секрет, ещё проход, ещё кусочек истории. Пара загадок так и осталась для меня нерешённой, но это даже в плюс - мир не раскрывает себя полностью и от этого только интереснее. Боевка тоже очень порадовала. Тут не получится просто бездумно закликивать врагов - нужен тайминг, позиционка, понимание дистанции и терпение. Боссы в меру сильные, дают хороший челлендж, и при этом большинство из них ощущаются честными. Когда умираешь, чаще винишь себя, а не игру, и это дорогого стоит. Отдельно понравилось, как подан лор. Игра не вываливает всё в лицо, а даёт собирать картину по кускам: через окружение, детали, намёки, персонажей. Это хорошо работает на общую атмосферу безысходности, веры, разложения и этого тихого чувства незавершённого искупления. Я реально играл взахлёб, почти ни на что не отвлекаясь. Очень рад, что купил игру и поддержал разработчика. Огромное уважение Mirac за такой проект. Теперь буду ждать его следующие игры и искренне желаю ему только роста и прогресса. Если любите мрачные 2D-метроидвании/соулслайки с атмосферой, исследованием и честными тяжёлыми боями - Gravethorn точно стоит попробовать.

для инди игры очень даже годно. к геймплею, конечно, есть вопросы, но в целом играется сносно. концептуально все заебись, сюжет зашел, есть несколько концовок + вариативность в прохождении квестов. атмосфера мрачная, лор подается приятно, через записки, описание предметов, осколки памяти и диалоги. инфа не подается в лоб и не вываливается в самом конце, все очень размеренно. наверное единственный явный минус это нг+, в котором многовато багов, предметы дублируются в инвентарь, хотя вместо них можно было бы просто дать ресурсов/голды и прочие моменты, которые общее впечатление не смазали. буду ждать продолжения, либо других проектов от разработчика. «Прости меня, Мать. Прости за то, что я так и не нашёл себе места в этом мире. Как бы ни были велики мои старания, я так и не стал тем, кем ты хотела меня видеть..."

[i]---See where this game landed on my Metroidvania Tier List beneath this rec!---[/i] Plays a bit like a poor mans [b]The Last Faith[/b] - similar to [b]Skelethrone[/b] in this regard. Pretty mid comparatively, but palatable enough that I enjoyed playing it through to the end. Game is far more impressive than I was expecting given the cheap price of $5 and not knowing anything about the dev. There's no levelling up or stats or different weapons. There is however equippable trinkets and 1 slot for a powerful spell, as well as upgrades to your damage and HP etc and a lot of consumable items. The bosses are quite challenging and tanky and there isn't much you can do to alleviate this seeing as there's no levelling up system - you have to master the attack patterns and perservere. The game doesn't use the standard kind of parry found in most soulslikes. Here, if you fire your gun at just the right time when an enemy is winding up an attack it will stun them for a few seconds. You're mostly dodging/dashing out of the way. The map is basic and doesn't mark collectables or give you markers, but it does mark any important main quest/story related areas and is easy to read and navigate, so you're unlikely to get stuck when trying to at least complete the game. [b]Gravethorn[/b] only contains one single metroidvania ability upgrade and it wasn't until I was at the final boss that I was thinking 'why don't I have this double jump that is clearly needed for all these places I've been?' Turns out it was available to find for a long time, just not required for anything. ..except for one attack that the final boss does which I think requires double jump to avoid - weird. Killing a specific boss toward the end named [spoiler]The Arch Bishop[/spoiler] will lock your save file to a point of no return, potentially leaving you to miss out on at least one of the bosses (happened to me). This game did just enough to keep me invested and goes into my C tier. Well done Volviir! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [i]There isn't enough space in a Steam Rec to post my entire Tier List, so I cut off the bottom tiers. You can find the latest (and better) version of the Tier List on my reddit profile which I update every six months or sooner, located here:[/i] [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/metroidvania/comments/14l87nn/my_large_metroidvania_tier_list/]Tier List[/url] ===================== [b]My Metroidvania Tier List (PC)[/b] [i] (excluding Metroid & Castlevania titles)[/i] ===================== [i]-Not an objective list, purely how much I enjoyed the games-[/i] [b]S+[/b] Aeterna Noctis | [b]S Tier [i](Truly Special)[/i][/b] Astalon: Tears of the Earth | Hollow Knight: Silksong | MIO: Memories in Orbit | Hollow Knight | Master Key³$ | Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom | [b]S-[/b] Solateria | Blasphemous 2 | Cathedral | Crypt Custodian³ | [b]A+[/b] Afterimage | The Last Faith | Supraland³ | Supraland: Six Inches Under³ | Oolo³ | Frogmonster³ | [b]A Tier [i](Amazing)[/i][/b] Elderand | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | Doomblade^ | BioGun | Zexion | Chronicles of the Wolf | Kotama and Academy Citadel | Blossom Tales 2³$ | [b]A-[/b] Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights | Depths of Sanity | F.I.S.T. | Pampas & Selene | Ender Magnolia | Mandragora | [b]B+[/b] Blast Brigade | Haak | Turbo Kid | Nine Sols | Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus | Biomorph | Minishoot’ Adventures³ | Banjo-Kazooie³ | Banjo-Tooie³ | Donkey Kong 64³ | [b]B Tier [i](Really Enjoyed)[/i][/b] Animal Well | Alwa’s Legacy | Steamworld Dig 2 | Islets | Blasphemous | After Death | Pronty^ | Mortal Manor* | Escape From Tethys | Outbuddies DX* | Monster Sanctuary | Elliot Quest | Rebel Transmute | Moonlight Pulse | Environmental Station Alpha | Twilight Monk | Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown | Death’s Door³ | Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-yo³ | Yooka-Laylee³ | [b]B-[/b] Shadow Labyrinth | Haiku, the Robot | The Mobius Machine | Ultros | Voidwrought | Crystal Project³ | Unsighted³ | Tunic³ | Prey (2017)³ | [b]C+ [i](Fun)[/i][/b] Lone Fungus | Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores | Guns of Fury | Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night | Ghost Song | Kunai | Kingdom Shell | Axiom Verge | Treasure Adventure Game | GigaSword* | Infernax | Flipwitch# | Momodora 4 | Momodora 5 | HunterX | HunterX: code name T | Gestalt | Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists | Super Roboy | BladeChimera | AntiChamber³ | Blossom Tales³$ | [b]C Tier [i](More or Less Enjoyed)[/i][/b] The Throne | Plague of Yamorn* | Constance | Column on the Sea | 9 Years of Shadows | Jrago* | Laika: Aged through Blood | MF-01 Aerostrike^ | Xanthiom Zero | Carrion^ | Chasm | Wuppo | The Mummy Demastered | Catmaze | Curse of the Sea Rats* | Death’s Gambit: Afterlife | Castle In The Clouds DX# | Omega Strike | Aggelos | Midnight Castle Succubus# | Overbowed | Rabi-Ribi | TEVI | Far Star | Sheepo | Skelethrone: The CoE* | Unworthy | Undivine | Somber Echoes | Oirbo* | Ato | Side Scape³$ | And All Would Cry Beware³ | Lycanthorn 2³ | [b]Gravethorn[/b] | Vomitoreum³ | Maid of Salvation³ | Grumpy Jack³ | Jedi: Fallen Order³ | Arkham Asylum³ |

The game has its fair share of flaws but considering the price point (C$6.5) and the amount of game play time you can get out of it (14 hours for first run), I would recommend many MV enjoyer to try this thing out. It's basically Blasphemous-lite, not to the polishing and punishing level of Blasphemous but it's challenging enough without making it boring. Interesting story but I admit it's too cryptic for me, at least on first run, to figure things outl There are enough enemies varities out there to challenge you and bosses fight are great, take a couple tries but nothing crazily hard. I had some issue with camera angle not following the character correctly and small bugs here and there but nothing game breaking. Would love to see more fixes and optimization in the future. Personal rating: B tier. Definitely worth the money i paid for this.

游戏还挺好玩，但是恶性bug也太多了，我新开的一周目存档在触发死后复活后更换了增加血量上限的饰品，之后血量变成了40，然而这次死了后我又复活了，且血量一直恒定在10点，退出重进游戏也不行，直接毁了我的新存档。

Received a key for this game from a friend as I had shown interest in it when another friend had played. While I normally don't enjoy souls-like games, I have enjoyed playing this one. The boss fights are challenging without feeling impossible, the fast travel is only free to one location, not all, so I felt the challenge of how worth it could it be to play too safe. While it could be my own incompetence, I did struggle to find the workbench to upgrade my items and that was frustrating, I don't have any other real complaints. Would recommend this to any fans of Hollow Knight or Castlevania and the like.

真エンド？まで辿り着けたのでひとまず 最初はノーマルでやっていたが、自分にはあまりに難しく中盤で断念しイージーへ 他のハードぐらいは難易度ありそう。 後半に取れる術が取れちゃえば無双できるのでどの難易度でも… 難易度イージーでも他のメトロイド系よりちょい簡単ぐらいです。 他で言う二段ジャンプは実質隠しみたいになっていて、取らずにクリアも可能 色々選択肢があり結構取り逃し要素も多いが攻略とか見ずにでも案外なんとかなった セーブファイル複製して、取り逃し防止をしても良いかも。 これが３，４０００円とかならお勧めしないにするが なんと５００円程度でボリュームもかなりあるので お値段以上の価値はあるかと。