Jotun: Valhalla Edition

Esse jogo podia ser um dos melhores do seu gênero se não fosse pela sua gameplay super travada e lenta, a arte do jogo e linda e combina bastante com a trilha sonora, é realmente uma pena pois eu até fiquei com vontade de ver o final mas com essa gameplay não tem como encarar não. :(

Edit: I am notably surprised to see the same devs made Eldritch: Sundered Edition. Then went on to make Spritfarer and Outer Wilds. Which tells me they certainly improved as they went. Or did stronger in other game modes. I write this with full knowledge that I am talking to a corpse. Whoever did the art is the only reason this game sold as much as it did. They were not paid enough. Levels: Too large. Character moves too slow. Needed a sprint out of combat system or higher base speed outside of boss rooms. There is a sprint in the game but it can only be replenished once per level and lasts for a short time. You walk for a long time, looking at void, empty spaces. -the swamp level has key objectives coloured brown-on brown. -eagle dive attack should have been explained with an animal getting swiped. Space to dodge spotty as hell on this. Annoying increase in hassle to already long maps. (again, move speed making them feel bad) Sliding on roots is fun. Moving around the boats was neat. Seeing the dwarven mines was nice. Visually these things are fine They're too dam big and I move too dam slow. Player: -Stall on movement after space dodge feels like ass. I assume its to make the character feel heavy and to make the dodge only useful as a burst of final speed. Still don't like it. -Heavy attack having to be held like an anime pose beyond the physical windup sucks. Takes too long for the damage reward. Speed it up, reduce the output. Bosses: Everyone other than Odin is a pushover. Odin is only hard in the last 25% and it's because he RNG summons 4 bosses, with a chance of one of them making 70% of the play area a screw-you zone. Assuming you use powers, anything in non-valhalla mode can be phase-forced and destroyed. Odin is only hard on shun-the-gods, because he's an RNG ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. His movement feels inconsistent - I know it isn't actually. I get that his code demands a certain distance from the user and attempts to move there. I get that he throws his spear at slightly off angles, and it fails to be an off-angle if he's on certain edges of the map. Too bad. Bad design. Increase the off angle of the spear or just make him throw it off camera to begin with. Overall, it's an OK game. If you go to 100% it, you'll get pissed at failures in game design. Did I mention the non-determinant visuals on attacks? Everything is shadows and rings that don't actually match the hitboxes. Have fun walking through the cringe hall of kickstarters every time you want to go to Odin, even after you beat him once. To the devs - you probably think I'm taking a lot of this too personally. Your bad Odin design for shun-the-gods took my time, and your plodding levels insulted it doubly. You broke core game design values, albeit minorly. Your game has been played past the tutorial stage by 30% of owners, because you're a kickstarted game and you went on sales years ago. Which is where I'm from. I got the game pennies on the dollar 500 years ago and finally got around to my single player backlog. Go pay your artist. They sold untold amounts of unplayed library games.