3000th Duel

Being new to the genre is probably the reason I enjoyed this one, flaws and all. The music is good and that final credits song (the good ending) goes pretty hard, but that ends up being negatively balanced with incredibly short looping, that will drive you insane. The music had this sense of fantasy and adventure, which never sounded too dark, which felt thematic to the game. Character models look goofy and environments are a bit lackluster, but the music somehow made it feel like this whimsical adventure. Then there's the gameplay; I thought the mechanics were interesting enough, and the various weapon types all feel different. But once you experience it, there isn't a whole lot that stands out. All the weapons feel the same, just in 3 categories: sword, lance, and broadsword. There was some variation like some had fire enhancements or poison, but you'd tend to find something stronger so there never was much time to experiment. The magic was interesting but just like the weapons, it felt held back. Lastly the difficulty. I don't think I'm very good at these games. After ~82 hours, I got all achievements including the no hit bosses. The game felt fair, but I think I cheesed it a bit because I would find myself grinding to fill out my item list. With that being said, the DLC difficulty SUCKED. It skyrocketed out of nowhere, it was borderline unfair. Boss mechanics felt cheap and I really didn't want to continue. Of course you feel the sense of accomplishment when you finally beat them, but it felt more aggravating than anything. If I disliked this I wouldn't have put as much time as I did. Looks like Neo Popcorn is now Orange Popcorn. I like the original name better. Apparently HunterX does everything better. Let's see how that goes.

J'y ai joué il y a 3 ans et je n'avais pas adhéré. De mémoire, j'avais trouvé le gameplay hyper mou et pas plaisant. Il y a plein d'autres jeux de ce style, et plein d'autres plus sympas à mon avis.

Love it on Switch so I doubled down here on Steam. Here to negate the negative reviews lol

O jogo é excepcional. Visualmente deslumbrante, divertido e com uma gameplay extremamente fluida. O level design é de alto nível — com exceção de uma ou outra batalha contra chefes, que poderia ser mais inspirada. A curva de aprendizado e progressão é excelente: equilibrada, justa e sem a necessidade de grindar por horas para vencer um boss ou avançar em determinada área (pelo menos no jogo base). O grande destaque, sem dúvida, vai para o mapa. Ele é simplesmente incrível — uma verdadeira aula de design, claramente inspirado em Symphony of the Night, mas com identidade própria. O ponto mais fraco fica por conta da narrativa. Ela cumpre o papel de contextualizar a jornada, mas é rasa e pouco envolvente. Não chega a atrapalhar a experiência, mas definitivamente não é o foco aqui. Sobre a DLC, o conteúdo adicional é até interessante, mas a curva de progressão se torna absurda. A diversão dá lugar à frustração: os chefes são ridiculamente difíceis e o equilíbrio desaparece. A sensação é de estar jogando outro game — e não no bom sentido. Notas: 🎮 Jogo base: 8.8 🔥 DLC: 4.2 Veredito: Se você quer se divertir com mais um excelente metroidvania, vá direto no jogo base — é uma experiência recompensadora do início ao fim. Agora, se você curte desafios quase masoquistas, pode encarar a DLC. Afinal, é gratuita mesmo.

he jugat a molts metroidvanies... aquest és; BO

我承认我是又菜又爱玩，所以，可以提供难度选项吗？

I really enjoyed this game! It's a lot of fun and highly addictive. It's one of those cases where as soon as you finish your first playthrough, you begin the next without hesitation. I'm not a huge fan of the graphical style, but it is far from bad. First impressions are lacklustre, though you are hooked soon enough. If they added more DLC and items I'd still be playing it tbh. The price is just about right. A solid 7/10.

I am still in the process of doing my run of this game and its a good mix of fantasy and dark themes. Mixing hand to hand and weapon styles is a good mix and using a souls like battle system makes you always stay on your toes as you dodge and avoid attacks.

在，购买这款游戏以后的，两年后，我打开了这款，XXX。 我不该说它是XXX，因为我是在它打折的时候购入的。但是这个游戏我在尝试了23分钟以后就知道，如果我就算只为这玩意花1块钱我都要郁闷一周。 在写这封评测前我提交了退款申请，只能希望退款成功。这东西制作组不知道怎么想的，你搞Old school那一套闪避没无敌就算了，为什么要让玩家透过显微镜小孔一样盯着极其廉价的建模看啊...这又不是A片，没人想盯着你的“局部”仔细观察....

Incredible artificial difficulty, enemies are pretty basic but just hit hard, not a fan of how the skill tree works, weapon upgrades are hugely limited so worthless upgrading anything but end game gear and I really can't be bothered to finish it. When a game starts to feel like a slog, the fun stops As a metroidvania enjoyer; buy on massive discount and ignore free dlc or just save yourself the time and play something else