Maseylia : Echoes of the Past

Thoroughly enjoyable game. The design is well thought out and executed excellently. The length is agreeable, the overall diversity of enemies and abilities is fair for the scope of the game, and the visual cues and asset tweak+reuse is consistent and sensible. Art style is visually pleasing, music sets a nice atmosphere, and the discoverable world lore was enough to paint a picture but not bog down the experience. I came across a few bugs and some aspects that definitely need polished, but nothing that I wasn't able to work out without getting progress locked (although that situation could have arisen once or twice if I made a few different choices). I think this one could have used a bit more playtesting just to iron out the remaining few kinks but overall the small QA/Playtesting group did a good job with this game. I'd be happy to further elaborate to the devs the few instances I came across with issues with much more detailed specifics in a private chat/message but to give a small overview the bugs I found were things like that when you kill an enemy or destroy a money pile, the currency is set on a path that will always reach the player from the floor up (up through the player's feet) and frequently this means that the currency gets phased through the floor beneath your character and doesn't pass through it until you jump and then you see a bunch of currency come out of the ground underneath you and then it gets added to your bag. Going from the underwater area to the transition back into the green area ended up leaving me on the other side of the teleport orb (other side being the green side when the underwater area is the starting point) where most of the world geometry was like presenting the culled backfaces of the floor and thus it appeared as though I "fell through the floor" and there was no way to get back up to the teleport orb or even to where the proper level "floor" should have been. To solve this I basically just happened to get lucky wherein one of the enemies was close enough still that their attacks would phase through the missing world geometry and hit me while I was "under the level" so I just let it kill me and was able to re-spawn and just not take that route again. That being said, all enemies being able to attack through world geometry and/or being able to walk directly into/through world geometry was kind of a pain, until it served my suicide purposes that allowed me to respawn and not get locked in a position where I was stuck "under a level." Also I noticed that one time when I transitioned from underwater to an above water zone, the above water zone that I had previously experienced as not being underwater, was also now underwater and a restart of the game seemed to fix that and return that area to normal, but that only happened once in ~10 hours. Also it is very unclear how to get the final upgrade in the very last level of the game just before you finish the game (map shows an upgrade in a position that seems to be directly in the center of a mountainous landmass and I'm pretty sure that's the only reason I didn't get the 100% achievements but I tried coming at that one from every angle and couldn't figure it out. Overall this is a great game that I really genuinely enjoyed playing through, even with the few small issues I came across. I've been following this one for a bit on social media and for a first game from a very small team (seemingly kind of mostly a solo-dev project with some exceptions) this was an excellent debut and I look forward to seeing continued updates to address small bugs and I really look forward to seeing what the Sol Brothers will make next. TLDR: If you're a fan of 3D platformers with a smaller overall scope that you can get through in ~10 hours and still have explored everything, I highly recommend this game to you. If you're only looking at it because you like the art style, give the gameplay a shot, its worth your time and I'm confident you'll enjoy yourself.

Au début, je n'ai pas été immédiatement accroché au jeu. Les premières heures sont assez classiques, mais plus on avance, plus Maseylia révèle ses qualités. Le platforming devient vraiment excellent avec les nouvelles capacités, et l'exploration est très réussie grâce à un monde interconnecté qui donne constamment envie de découvrir de nouveaux passages. On sent que le jeu a été réalisé par une petite équipe : il y a quelques imperfections techniques et un manque de finition par moments. Cela dit, rien n'a réellement impacté mon expérience ni mon plaisir de jeu. Les qualités du titre prennent largement le dessus. Au final, c'est un Metroidvania 3D très solide que je recommande sans hésiter à ceux qui aiment l'exploration, la progression par les capacités et les déplacements bien pensés. Il mérite clairement qu'on lui laisse sa chance, car il devient de plus en plus intéressant au fil de l'aventure.

GREAT game, gorgeous platforming

I had an absolute blast playing this game! I believe it does really well making you earn your ability upgrades in the later stages of the game. It never felt unfairly difficult. The environments and artistic style we're absolutely beautiful. The map was fun to explore. The abilities felt well thought out, and made exploration more enjoyable as I progressed. An easy recommendation for those who enjoy 3D platformers and Metriodvania style games.

très bon jeu et bon rapport qualité prix

Hollow Knight if it had been created in 3D. A massive experimental banger hampered by his bugs ! Full French review -> https://youtu.be/z-u_Z8o4LUg

It's good so far.