Gravity Circuit

7/10 Gravity Circuit is a 2D action/platform fighter, very reminiscent of the old Mega Man games. Rather than absorb your opponent's powers to use as your own, you instead purchase enhancements to your basic loadout, with both passive techs and active techs to be used once sufficiently charged with energy from defeating enemies. The game encourages thorough exploration of areas to find various goodies - paint "chips" that change your suit's behavior and its paintjob, upgrades to your max HP, and saving citizen-bots in exchange for Rescue Coins, which allow you to buy passive upgrades. The game provides this incentive to do thorough exploration, but it avoids the worst aspects of collection side quests because of how they're implemented. For example, passive upgrades are not tied to specific rescues - they cost a number of coins, and one rescue is as good as another, in that regard. Additionally, the Mission Select menu shows the unlocks for a zone, so you know if you've gotten everything or not. Even if you haven't, a completed mission can be jumped back into at any checkpoint, making it even easier to go back and catch anything you've missed, though this was only rarely necessary. I really appreciated the way the game was respectful of my time in this way. The game design was highly polished, with everything looking very good and movement & combat both feeling very smooth. I enjoyed the game's narrative well enough, providing some decent twists and fun enough to follow, but the whole thing remains easily skippable if you just want to bash some enemies. In terms of things I'm docking points for, I wish the difficulty were more granular. The game has Easy/Normal/Hard difficulties, which must be selected at the game start. I figured out after an hour of trying at the first boss in the mines that Normal was going to be too difficult to me, as combat moved too quickly for me to reliably avoid damage and keep myself alive to get the victory. Once I restarted the game on Easy, I ended up clearing most of the bosses on my first try. If I could've made a more fine difficulty adjustment, that would've been much appreciated. Relatedly, I also ended up setting 3 passives (you can only equip 3) and kept them on for the whole game - one to make overflow weapons energy heal me, one to double jump, and one to reduce damage taken. These seemed so far and away the most obviously good passives (and may have contributed to me feeling that Easy was too easy for me), that I feel like maybe they should've been baked into the character baseline, rather than competing with other passives. For someone with more skill than me at the combat, they'd likely have enjoyed this even more than me, and I thought it was a pretty good game. I picked this up on a whim during a Steam giveaway, and now I'm really curious to check out Gravity Circuit 2 when it releases.

Melhor Megaman de todos os tempos

Um jogo MUITO divertido, com gráficos lindos, gameplay fluidíssima e super rápida, uma verdadeira pérola pra jogar. Caso você, assim que nem eu, seja fã de Megaman esse jogo vai te servir perfeitamente, um jogo que apesar de eu já esperar muita coisa me impressionou com a qualidade e o carinho colocado nele, já aguardo a sequência ansiosamente dessa verdadeira joia

Jogo excelente, mas você perde progresso violentamente com saves e de formas que você nem compreende direito. Pode ter sido um caso isolado, mas é muito frustrante...

крутая игра

Such a fun game! Would have liked a dash tho..

Rumors are true, this Mega Man but melee game is good. Put it off for a while cause I thought the color palette was harsh, it hurt my eyes, and does the world need more Mega Mans? I dunno if it does but I had a good time with this as the controls are so tight, and you can move so fast that it hurt my eyes. 3.5/5