SoulQuest

I really want to love this game, but an hour in, I find myself having far more frustration than fun. I haven't even gotten to the first boss because the levels are so long with very infrequent checkpoints and absolutely zero progress saved between deaths. There's no way to heal between combat encounters that range between punishing and annoying. Every enemy, even the lowliest trash mob, requires several combos to defeat, leading everything to feel spongy. The game expects perfection, even on normal difficulty, to such a degree that it rapidly went from "fun but challenging" to "this is just frustrating." Perhaps I'm just not the target audience, that's very possible. The devs are obviously going for a Devil May Cry style combat system, but have missed the difficulty mark, badly. I've always been able to get through a Devil May Cry game on normal, even if I was only hitting C-A combos in most encounters. In this one, I can't even get to the first major boss without experiencing such extreme frustration that I've put down the game pending a few updates.

Mediocre at best. Story is almost nonexistent and even then it's an unfinished joke with no real ending. Gameplay is repetitive, annoying and boring. The only good parts are visual style (for some) and little to none bugs.

[h1] Uma carta de amor para todo fã de Devil May Cry[/h1] [b]SoulQuest[/b] é aquele tipo de jogo que entende exatamente onde quer brilhar e não hesita em colocar todos os seus esforços nisso. Seu combate é, sem dúvida, o grande destaque, entregando uma experiência estilosa, fluida e muito satisfatória, que consegue capturar a essência de grandes nomes do hack and slash, mesmo dentro das limitações de um sidescroller 2D. Por outro lado, o jogo tropeça em aspectos estruturais importantes. O level design inconsistente, os problemas nas seções de plataforma e o balanceamento questionável nas primeiras horas acabam criando uma barreira de entrada desnecessária, especialmente para jogadores menos experientes. Ainda assim, quando todas as engrenagens de seu combate profundo funcionam em conjunto, [b]SoulQuest[/b] mostra seu verdadeiro potencial e se torna viciante. No fim, [b]SoulQuest[/b] é uma homenagem competente e apaixonada de um fã ao seu gênero de jogos favorito, acertando em cheio no que mais importa para esse tipo de jogo: o combate. Para fãs de combates estilosos e sistemas profundos de combos, é uma experiência que, apesar de alguns tropeços, definitivamente vale muito a pena. Análise Completa >>> https://gamefm.com.br/soulquest-analise/

This game unfortunately lacked the polish tom justify the price tag, even on 20% off sale. The combat was VERY satisfying, with incredible tight controls, fun combos and fast paced fighting game feel. The rest of the level designs, translation, and ESPECIALLY the platform simply fell flat. All complete with misrepresented tool tips and wrong button icons. I would recommend this game (and would have kept instead of returned it) for $5USD or less

6/10. I was sitting on a hesitant 7/10, but the ending was deeply unsatisfying. It's got pretty good art direction, and it scratches some of the itches of a 2D character action game like Devil May Cry, but there were a lot of *little* things that I found unappealing. The boss fights (and most mid sized mooks) all have a stagger gauge before you can combo them, which is fine, but the stagger gauge takes a long while to empty and refills very fast so you spend most of the hard fights abusing hit-and-run. The dialogue is all over the place on mixing, some characters are near inaudible and others are perfectly fine. The script itself is a little uninspired, but it works-- however, a significant number of mistakes, punctuation, etc. really took me out of the experience. If you like 2D games and DMC-esque combat, I'd probably suggest Valdis Story instead, though it does have a much less arcadey and a much more Metroidvania esque feel.

It's a nice little game, worth spending an afternoon or two to finish it. I won't talk about its issues because a lot of other reviews already go over them in detail, instead I'll focus on the good: the combat. Thankfully, there's a lot of it too. The first encounters can be beaten by just mashing buttons, but they quickly evolve and demand you to come up with proper strategies to beat them. Very often, the most viable strategy is to juggle the enemies in the air until their hp is low enough to kill them with a finisher. Without realising it, you end up using all of the tools that the game gives you in a really stylish manner. Plus, seeing that big "S rank" at the end of a level never gets old. Both for the story and the mechanics, I really hope there's a sequel.

Combat is good, the pixel art is great but man the audio balancing is atrocious, it sounds like all the voice actors just recorded their lines on Audacity in their bedroom, clicked export and it was put in the game without any further editing

Plays like it was designed by someone who's heard of Devil May Cry games, and possibly even seen videos of gameplay, but has never actually played one themselves.

its fun but the inability to heal on the fly really sucks even dark souls give u a flask when u die you have to restart the entire room, doing everything over