Skautfold: Usurper

Skautfold: Usurper, segundo juego de la saga Skautfold es un juego indie, pixelado, con un marcado estilo metroidvania, bastante logrado en general aunque falto de cierta originalidad. Gráficamente raya a buen nivel, con multitud de escenarios, armas y enemigos, si bien en ciertos aspectos (como algunos jefes finales) distan bastante de tener un acabado profesional. La banda sonora es bastante buena, con melodías apropiadas y pegadizas que van variando según nuestra localización, logrando una ambientación genial en algunos puntos. La jugabilidad es buena, con un manejo del personaje muy sencillo y fiable, y con ciertas habilidades que iremos aprendiendo sin problemas a medida que vayamos progresando en la aventura. Quizás las numerosas opciones de habilidades extra, con mascotas que podremos subir de nivel, libros que nos otorgarán poderes, atributos de mejora del personaje, mapas, armas, donativos a los dioses y demás opciones hacen que al principio pueda costar controlarlo todo y muchos de estos puntos acaban siendo dejados de lado por no ser imprescindibles para avanzar en la aventura, dando la sensación que no eran del todo necesarios. La dificultad no es excesiva e iremos avanzando sin demasiadas complicaciones. Quizás algún Boss nos podrá matar en ciertas ocasiones, pero las opciones de guardado harán que no sea complicado intentarlo de nuevo en poco tiempo. No es un juego excesivamente frustrante en este sentido. La durabilidad es razonable. Entre 15 y 20 horas, con unas cuantas horas más si queremos conseguir todos los logros. Un aspecto acertado porque evita que el juego llegue a resultar pesado o repetitivo. A destacar la historia narrada a través de las abundantes conversaciones mantenidas entre los distintos personajes, y el elaborado mapeado, con multitud de detalles y una estructura muy trabajada. En lo no tan bueno, podría decirse que algunos decorados y, en especial, algunos bosses tiene un acabado poco profesional, También se respira ausencia de una originalidad que sí podría encontrarse en el primer título de la saga. Es un buen título, pero hay mejores metroidvanias en el catálogo de Steam, por lo que no es un imprescindible. NOTA: 7/10

评分：2/5 评测：类银河恶魔城，手感有点过于垃圾了，地图也不给指引，完全看不懂要怎么走，体验一般

Gloomy-toned metroidvania which suffers from incoherent plotting and excessive length, but is redeemed somewhat by reasonably fun movement abilities and managing to make soulslike-inspired mechanics bearable. The setting of the game is intriguing enough, but you have to work quite hard to piece it together because the story and worldbuilding are handled erratically and unclearly, leaving me at the end of the game with a kind of "wait, I'm not sure what half of that was about" feeling. There's also a kind of steampunk gothiness to the whole thing which works reasonably well. At first your abilities are quite limited but as you start to gain more movement options, the game really opens up. Backtracking to reach new nooks and crannies usually rewards you with something, and the levelling system gives you several ways of building your character (though how much functional difference results, I'm not sure - I suspect some nominally different builds are probably pretty similar in action). I mention that Usurper makes soulslike mechanics bearable and what I mean is this. I don't like soulslikes or the proliferation of the tedious bonfire/soul drop/stamina/dodge roll package that accompanies them - but here it's done in quite a forgiving way. Your Guard meter is both your shield (protecting a tiny health bar) and also your stamina - but it's easily restored in combat by successfully dodge rolling through an attack, which gives you a chunk of your Guard back. This makes it more forgiving than the soulslike norm, and also puts more control in the player's hands. I still rolled my eyes every time enemies respawned because I rested at a bonfire - sorry, sat on a throne - but it's a less abrasive implementation of these over-used tropes than most. I did start to tire of the game a few hours before it finished, though. It took me just under 13 hours to get through (and would have taken longer if I hadn't consulted a guide to rectify a bug which resulted in the game not giving me my next objective) and for the final 3-4 hours I was ready to be done with it. There's very little fast travel and few shortcuts, so you spend a LOT of the play time walking back and forth through the same areas over and over. On the whole, I did mostly enjoy my time with Usurper. I didn't love it, and I don't know that I liked it enough to actively recommend it, but if it appealed to you then I wouldn't warn you off it either. Good effort which flubs a few aspects too much to be great, but does enough things right to be a moderately decent game overall.

Skautfold: Usurper is sadly a really mixed bag of a game and almost kind of bad game, except for a few things that helps this sequel to not completely suck, but let's get into the story first. It has been a few years since the incident at Berelaii’s Manor where the emperor and the four knights committed a ritualistic massacre, where Queen Eleanor was resurrected and killed her brother to take back the throne. After she and the four knights who have re-pledge their loyalty to her, they thought it was finally over, but it's not for the Citadel has arrived in London sending out its unholy creatures to commit mass slaughter. But Saragat the fourth knight along with the others were sent out to deal with the atrocities. Unfortunately things didn’t go as planned for Saragat as he was nearly killed, thankfully the fourth knight's life is saved by none other than Wilhelm, the mysterious benefactor and the man responsible for Eleanor's Resurrection, he too has his own mission here as he desires to control the citadel having fought the Navigator and almost was killed by him. Now Wilhelm resides in Saragat's body and both come to an agreement to save London and the world they must work together to kill the Navigator and take command of the Citadel. Okay the likes, the story is pretty good, in the first game the story really wasn’t the focus and you could probably just ignore some of it, but here there's a bit more of a focus on the story as it answers some important questions like what happened to the queen and the four knights after the first game, who is Wilhelm and what was that strange floating rock at the end credits. It answers those questions while also having more interesting characters and main character with Saragat, the story also gives some good hints about what's going to be the story for the third game in the series, I was a bit more interested in this story than I was in the first game’s story. The characters are good, from the first game the characters/NPCs were there just too only serve a narrative purpose if you were interested in the story, but it wasn't required to talk to them. Here they still serve a narrative purpose, but you don't have to talk to them if you don’t want too like in the first game, but in this game they're a lot more interesting to talk to, maybe it's because our main character can speak and interact with them I don’t really know, But here are some of the characters I liked, like Howard and his demon friend they're still pretty cool and I like their relationship as they both seem to care about each other, I also liked the queen as she doesn't hold any grudges against the four knights and even admits that she was a terrible ruler in her first life, but wants to be a better ruler in her new life, but she also acknowledges that the knights have to pay for their crimes for what they did under the king’s orders. I also liked the main character Saragat as he's the youngest of the four knights he can come off as very prideful, but he doesn't come off as arrogant and we see that he does have a more caring side to himself and definitely has regrets over what he and the other four did in the first game, I also like his chemistry between him and Wilhelm both at first being antagonistic to each other, but over the game they start becoming friends, I do feel a bit more could have been done with it but that's just me personally. The gameplay is okayish there's a lot of things that holds it back from being good, but that for the dislikes. But there are some general things I liked in this gameplay, I like the fact that this is a metroidvania that's a nice shake up from the first game which was a semi top down one, I also liked that we get new weapons instead of just a sword, and they had interesting designs and some of them do have some cool animations, although I do wish a few more things could have been done with them. The pixel graphic art style is very good with some nice uses of colors and designs, like the first game they actually really push how far these pixel graphics could go. The levels are good with plenty of interesting scenery we have a cathedral, a laboratory and a mini Forest it was all very good and makes you want to explore and see it all. The enemies and bosses were good each one had their own unique looks and designs, and while some enemies are just reused sprites from the first game it was nice to see them. The music is very good with some great tracks that set the mood very well. Okay the dislikes, now as I said there's problems with the gameplay, first the big problem is a lot of the enemies are seriously op, even the common ones can kill you in just two hits, even when you upgrade your defenses some enemies and bosses can still kill you in two hits. It can be really frustrating and not in the fun challenging kind of way, more like are you kidding me this is bullcrap kind of way and it only gets worse with some of the bosses, another really frustrating thing is the fact that you don't have healing items, in the first game you had one, but here you don't, you can only heal yourself at save points which got really annoying because combined with the enemies that hit hard you could be far in a level, accidentally get hit and then you have to go all the way back to a save point just to heal yourself. And those two things hard-hitting enemies and not being able to heal yourself make the boss fights un-enjoyable while it does take some trial and error with most of the bosses and they can be easy to deal with once you master the blocking mechanic, they are still a pain to fight and the worst boss being the final boss, it’s pretty bullet hellish especially in his second and third forms, it just feels extremely cheap especially if you're trying to go after some of the more difficult achievements like no death and level one achievements. Also like the previous game this does a kind of Eternal Darkness Sandy's Requiem where it messes with the game, problem is it just doesn't work in this game like it did in the first game. It worked in that game because it showed weird and creepy stuff, but didn't mess with the gameplay except for that one enemy but you could block his attack. But here it actually does that with inverting the screen or causing a fake blue screen of death which got really annoying because it happened during the boss fight with the torturer and it was already hard fighting him the first time, so having a blue screen of death or inverted screen when you're trying to beat him it was just really stupid. Not saying that you couldn't do that sanity's requiem type things in this game, but it could have been just weird images and maybe playing on the fourth knight and Wilhelm feelings and guilt about what happened in the previous game. The game also has some bugs, but nothing really game breaking that a quick restart can’t fix. Now as I said I wish there was some more things done with the weapons and that I wish that some of the elemental weapons to do status effects like the electric whip causing paralyzation and the fire whip causing fire damage. And like I said I also wish there was more that could be done with Saragat and Wilhelm story, like exploring more of their past, there hopes and their regrets, you know make it more believable. Now that I told you all this Skautfold: Usurper is sadly a really mixed bag of a game and almost kind of bad game, except for a few things that helps this sequel to not completely suck, I am going to have to give this game a thumbs down, it does have a pretty good story, good characters and very good pixel graphic art style. So do I recommend this game, no the gameplay just really makes the game not enjoyable to play, I feel like I could recommended it if there was an update to add healing items and decreasing the enemy strength, but I don't know this game was made in 2018, But maybe it will ever get an update or maybe it will get an update in a rerelease/remake.

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8hr12m to beat A solid Metroidvania, Movement is fluid; You get multiple traversal options as you progress through the game. One late-game power makes platforming and backtracking extremely easy. Many different styles of weapons you can find, ranging from swords, katanas, axes, flintlocks and bows. There are more, but I am not listing them all here. Weapons have different speeds, stats and scaling, meaning you can find one you enjoy and build around that weapon. The map is well designed and, like other games of this genre, certain paths are locked off to the player until bosses are defeated. Fast travel back to the hub means backtracking is easy. One thing that I did enjoy was that the NPCs give hints on where to go, meaning you are never totally lost. Base game m&k controls work well, and you are free to rebind. I did end up rebinding one late-game ability onto my MMB, as it felt easier for me. Difficulty was mostly fine; however, the final boss fight was extremely hard. I went from 13 deaths to 37. It was a fun challenge to overcome. As I said in my review of the first game, I got the entire franchise and will work my way through them. Each game in the series is in a different style of game, which is interesting for me. The third game is a fast-paced action shooter, I believe.

The game is poorly executed in terms of character movement and combat; even the map is very bad.

Rough gameplay but amazing story and atmosphere again. briliant ending too.

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