Haunted Lands

十分Old School的游戏，恶魔城like的关卡地图，画风和音效直接还原雅达利FC时期，只推荐极端复古爱好者

ほぼストーリーがなく、ひたすらステージ攻略する古典的な２Dアクション。[u]ゲーム性はトレイラーの映像のとおりなので、トレイラーを見て面白そうと思ったら買って損なし。[/u]しかも、安くてボリューム満点。以下、ほぼ獣人だけ使って一周クリアしたあとの感想。 獣人キャラは爪で敵をズタズタにするので見ていて痛快です。ゴア表現が派手で、血や肉がメチャクチャ飛び散ります。しかも、敵はダメージを与えていくと見た目もボロボロになっていきます。グロいのが好きな人にオススメ。あと、倒した敵の死体がずっと残るのもイイ。 獣人（狼男とドラゴン姉貴）は敵を一定回数攻撃するとHPを回復することができ、さらに「飛びつき(Pounce)」による大ジャンプと空中ダッシュも可能なのでプラットフォーミングの難易度が他のキャラクターよりも下がります。おそらくもっとも初心者向けキャラ（簡単とは言っていない） [u]ステージ、ザコ敵、ボス戦はどれもバリエーション豊か。[/u]ザコ敵は終盤になると、他の敵を回復させるやつ、どこからともなく現れて飛びかかってくる巨大な顔のバケモノなどが登場し、非常にうざい（褒め言葉）。さらに各敵の上位版みたいなのも登場する。大ボスは巨大で強そうなやつが多く（実際強い）、ボス戦はテンションあがる。各ボスはユニークなギミックを持っているのも面白い。 戦闘は忙しく、大量の敵が出現する部屋に閉じ込められるシチュエーションが多々あります。攻撃を回避しながら、立ち位置やアビリティを使うタイミング、倒す敵の優先順位などをすばやく考える必要があり、それが楽しかったです。幸い、ダッシュの無敵時間が長いのでソウルライクほど回避は難しくないです。 チェックポイント数が少ないので、死んだ後ものすごく巻き戻されることがあります。しかし、ボス戦などの難所の手前には大抵チェックポイントが用意されているし、残機も無限なのでそこまで理不尽ではないです。さらにアップデートで、[u]スコアを消費して回復／チェックポイント作成できる祭壇が各地に追加されました。[/u] メトロイドヴァニアではなく、ステージクリア型。ステージによってはあちこち行ったり来たりする必要があったり、[u]通貨やアーティファクトがいたるところに隠されているので探索し甲斐がある[/u]。アーティファクトは様々な効果を持っており、装備するとパワーアップできます。ショップで購入することも可能。 [u]最初のエンディングに到達するまで16.6時間かかりました[/u]（他にエンディングがあるか知らないけど）。達成率を上げたり、「チャレンジ」を達成したり、さらに隠しステージ等があるらしいので、クリア後もやることがたくさんあります。 遊べるキャラクターが６人もいるので、他のキャラクターで繰り返し遊べば何度も遊べると思います。 ガンナーは回復手段が乏しいし、魔法使いはヘルスが少ないので、獣人でプレイするよりも難易度が跳ね上がると思います（たぶん） 安い、面白い、ボリュームあり、最高。 [u]不満点は[/u]、いつセーブされてるのかわからず、いつゲームを中断していいのかわかりづらいことでした。 セーブされるタイミングは以下の通り。 ・「次のエリア（Next Area）」と表示されるドアを抜けた後 ・拠点に戻ったとき 注意点は、チェックポイントに到達すると「クイックセーブ」と表示されますが、これは一時セーブなのでゲームを終了すると消えてしまいます。次回ゲーム起動したときは「次のエリア」の場所から再開になります。 好きなタイミングでセーブできないので、それでは困るという人には向かないかも。

Do you like platformer shooters? Do you love memory-games and demand for positioning? Do you like the unforgiving difficulties of older DOS games? Do you like retro visuals and SFX ? Or are you looking at this because it reminds you of Dangerous Dave, and you remember playing that game? ( and you also remember CGA / EGA graphics ) ... in that case, this rather low-priced game might just be for you! ( In any other case, you might want to familiarize yourself with other platformer games. This game demands patience, and may inflict carpal tunnel. )

I have a handful of issues with the game but my main issue is that I just don't like how it feels to play. Lots of awkward pauses after attacks, only the werewolf can attack while jumping but if you hold attack slightly too long you stop moving sideways and fall directly downward, going airborne even for a split second from something like walking off a platform stops reloads as the veteran, and the mage balances mobility with attack on the same meter without much of a attack power gain over the others. Characters just don't feel responsive in ways that I would expect from decades of playing action platformers. Beyond the game-feel, I think the enemy placement leans on quantity over quality, levels have very awkward paths that dead end on gold pickups that hurt the pacing, and everyone takes a surprising amount of hits which you feel much more when playing anyone but the werewolf since you're waiting for your reload or magic meter to refill between attacks. I didn't get far enough for loadouts to really come into play but I generally don't care to those modern touches in my retro inspired games. I really wanted to like this since I'm a sucker for action platformers and anything with a spooky theme. Hopefully we get a sequel one day that feels a bit more polished.

Haunted Lands was a mostly pleasant surprise for me this year. In a year of truly punishing games full of difficult challenges everywhere, this is actually the hardest one I've played, Pros: +Great art design, very gory and full of skulls, if you like horror imagery, you'll get a kick out of this game. I was actually terrified at certain parts. +Solid soundtrack, if a bit samey. +The controls are tight, but you have to be extremely careful. Pulling off tough fights with the limitations each character has feels great. + All 3 character classes can do some cool stuff and all feel very unique from each other. + Interesting world/level design with multiple paths in levels and tons of secrets. Cons: - It is brutally difficult from the very first stage and never lets up. The dev added a few checkpoints, but honestly I think the only way to make the game easier would be to refill your health to full at those or maybe reduce the size of some of the boss attacks' hitboxes. They're all enormous. - It can be easy to lose track of where you're going in some of the open areas, and the labyrinth sewer area towards the end is just annoying. - I kind of wish you could teleport to previous checkpoints or back to home base from the most recent one, because some of these levels are TOO long and it's hard to find spots to take a break. I wanted to like Haunted Lands more than I did, but I have to admit the dev put in a lot of effort to make a difficult but rewarding game, here. If you like old school tough and aren't afraid of a challenge, pick this one up! 8/10

Iits a sh*t game ... looks interesting ... plays like a crappy game. Starting the level from begining really makes it boring. For me personally i experience some motion sickness from the jittery layered screens ... not sure if its the game or my machine( im well above minimum requirements). The backgrounds have some weird effect where the camera moves the backrounds move and its not done smoothly,. Otherwise it was fun playing it until i repeated the first leve about 40 times ... iuninstalled it and lost my 10 dollars .

this game rules so hard. it's one of the single unlaziest games ever made. everything is high effort and each successive level steps it up. do you like beautiful, maximal pixelart? do you like well-conceived 2D action platforming? there are really only five core levels but they'll take you a bit to get through. each class -- of which there are three -- play these levels completely differently so there's a lot to master here. i find it funny how people call this game unfair. it's an MS-DOS throwback but it really just isn't in terms of difficulty. is it hard? hell yeah it is but it has a lot of modern ideas like checkpoints and class-specific defensive mechanics. i don't want to say "git gud" and yet. i'm sorry but do we recall the days of actually cheap bosses? limited lives? when games were designed around getting players to drop as many quarters in them as possible? when memory was limited so games were horridly frustrating and/or forced players to entirely repeat brutal sections of the game in order to complete them? can we please get real? i get the feeling a lot of people complaining about the difficulty here simply have no notion of what a truly unfair game is. go give Ghosts 'n' Goblins a shot and then get back to me. i personally appreciate this game's uncompromising nature. but then, i do think it's one of the best games ever made in its class. it also probably costs less than your order at your local cafe.

Has that visceral bad feeling when it comes to controls combined with the retro difficulty made this a very quick play and pass. It was cheap and I like to support indies but this one was not for me.

用手柄玩的要切记了，摇杆没有死区，很容易把从上一个存档点开始选到重新开始关卡，还不会问你是否确定。小怪rush真的又臭又长，好玩归好玩，难度很不推荐。