Zapling Bygone

Great metroidvania with fun movement

Petit metroidvania plutôt joli et sympa à jouer. Le lore est assez obscur, et ce qu'on doit faire et assez obscur aussi. Globalement agréable à jouer, il peut être frustrant sur certains passages de plateformes un peu (trop?) précis. Mériterait peut être de s'exprimer plus clairement, mais globalement un bon jeu.

Zapling Bygone is a puzzle game where you defeat your enemies as you steal their abilities by wearing their skulls as armour. Graphics- Pixels Soundtrack- Okay Audience- kids and Teenagers Difficulty- It's not too difficult to get the hang of Story- Alright story Game time- Okay length Price- Its a expensive for what it is 5/10

the game feels a bit directionless and can be very unforgiving at times. when i was playing it, i was almost hoping they wouldve way to just accumulate strength, keep getting more powerful but really its more like a you get a ability but you are still just a squishy thing running away from all the enemies through spike lined corridors. on sale i could recommend it but for 16$? nah

Overall very good. Interesting art, responsive controls, open exploration. One of the best games I've played in a while. Nothing felt too difficult or too easy. Very well balanced overall. High on my list of short/compact metroidvanias. Definitely worth your time, but by no means perfect. There were a few issues with the map/character GPS being off, but it wasn't a huge problem until end game. My main problem was that the game provides no method to discern completion/comb through the map in end game. When a game has a 100% achievement, I think this is a poor choice. Soured the end of my experience a little. Some sort of biome completion rate, item detector, etc. is always my preference. I just don't find wandering aimlessly to be fun when I have zero clue what I am missing or where it might even remotely be found. Still, if you don't care about completion like me this game was so so cool and felt very fresh to me.

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system of modifying your abilities is neat. There are some fairly big changes you can make, including movement tech, that aren't just given to your character, you have to choose to use them over something else like increasing damage or something. So this is neat. The bosses, while easy, are interesting. The story is there I guess, but it's not very clear, probably intentionally. I read portions of the collectible comics and it didn't make much sense to me. I read a synopsis of the game later, and I guess I understand the story. It's fine. The game claims to allow you to absorb your enemies powers and use them. I believe that is referring to the masks. The mask abilities stick no matter which you are wearing, so I just wore the mask with the most slots and called it a day. I don't really understand why other masks exist. So maybe I missed something. Because I was getting maps with half the slots later that I couldn't understand how they were better. I felt kinda lost at a few points, but found my way stumbling through areas. The combat is fine. The game does a weird thing with the map. I wasn't quite sure when it revealed. Perhaps after bosses? It made exploring difficult. I understand some games do this, like Silksong revealing a map after saving at a save point. Just felt unnecessary in this game. I did like how the game had areas that allow for bypassing large portions of the areas once explored. And some fast travel points. The games noises are really bad. Bouncing on the brains is just a bouncing basketball. Enemies that explode tick lick clocks. Why? Some noises were so loud comparitvely that I had to turn my volume down lower on certain bosses. I also experienced game breaking bugs and had to quit and reload. I think this game has really good bones that if they were fleshed out a bit more, would be a great game. As it stands, it's an okay game, worth playing if you don't have much else to play. I really appreciated the reference to another platformer in this game, as I enjoyed that game. Not sure if there were more. I did miss some secrets. I got 85% in game with 73% achievements in 5.6 hours. That was enough for me. Would I recommend this game, maybe if you are bored and just need a new platformer, but there are many better options out there. If it's on a big sale, just grab it and tuck it away in your library, play it one day when you have nothing you are currently playing. It's not a huge investment.