Spirited Line

Great little game

Game doesn't save, I beat most of the bosses twice before I realized (I thought my handheld didn't upload the save at first). Steam says you can save anytime and no where does in the description does it say you can't save. And it's not built around that as a feature, it just doesn't have it. Crazy for a game in 2026. I don't really care if it's a "short game". Unless it's actually like 10 minutes and free, there's really no excuse. Games crash, people have responsibilities that come up, etc. This is just padding. And you have to do the tutorial on each new playthrough; which you can argue include the first two bosses that are painfully easy on subsequent playthroughs but cannot be beaten quickly due to certain mechanics (fun the first time but they're basically puzzle bosses). This compounded with other bugs like the button icons flashing back and forth from keyboard to controller, the start menu being glitchy, the sound fx sometimes just not working, music being just short repeated loops, etc make this a game I'd genuinely recommend not be worth it. Because otherwise I really like it. As a it's a great homage to PS1 era games with some light souls elements. It has a real vibe to it that I love too. It could have been great. Please fix these issues.

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tis a simple game, 7 bosses, 7 achievements, you are a cat you have a sword and you're gonna swing it hell yeah. big plus for the amazing low poly aesthetic, great vibes.

Reviewing games after playing them for such a short period of time is generally mean-spirited, ill-informed, or ill-intentioned, but as the game itself is quite short, I feel less bad about doing so. Also, making games is incredibly hard, so I'm not sitting here saying I could do better. I'm offering my opinion on what I played of the game. There are two massive issues that hindered my enjoyment of the game, in a way the cranked the frustration levels to 11. The first is the camera, which doesn't show you enough of the later fights, and obscures attacks (placement/direction etc.) on both the left and right sides of the arenas way more, leading to incredibly cheap feeling deaths (I got lost in the camera behind one of the bosses, unable to see myself OR the boss, as the camera's positioning wasn't zoomed out far enough for me to see). The second is the insanely punitive hitbox on your character, sometimes arbitrarily so. Having played a pretty decent number of Souls-likes, the timings and 'means' by which some attacks 'hit' you feel really harsh and not particularly 'fair'. Difficulty is fine, if it's executed fairly. Even one-hit death games can execute the hitbox in a way that's fair when done right, but here, it just feels the wrong kind of punishing - the unfairly punitive. The ways both The Rat King and boss before that (briefly forgotten its name) hit you rarely feel actually fair, in a way that actively saps any fun I was having out of the game. There are a couple of other issues that get in the way (the 3-5 second lingering shot everytime you die is a pretty big frustration), but the two I mentioned are the biggest and the most impactful on the game's enjoyment. While I got frustrated at the earlier bosses, I persevered and got through them - the two penultimate fights though? I noped out of those and the game because just how frustrating, and how (in some ways) 'not my fault', failure felt. It's got a great PS1-style aesthetic, or at least has a look that evokes the nostalgia for that aesthetic. It's just a shame how obstructive the camera is and how punitive the hitboxes feel.