A Valley Without Wind

I regret buying this game. Not enough of a game to be fun. Too much of an abstract art project (or at least it feels that way).

I have no idea why I can't write a review for the second game so I'm just going to write one here for both. Here goes... Bro. These games. KICK. ASS. I got them both on a humble bundle deal for pennies but the kicker is I haven't played them for like two years, maybe a year and a half after obtaining the steam keys. I've always been a fan of Metroid-Vania style dungeon crawling platformers so imagine my surprise when I find out these games are Metroid-Vania mixed with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mountain Blade and Terraria. I'm pretty "meh" about Mountain Blade (enough to never buy it on my account) and I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HATE Terraria. I know what you're thinking; "Oh. So you just don't like good games!" Ha... HA. HA ha... No. ♥♥♥♥ off with that ♥♥♥♥. Terraria and Mountain Blade are good games but they just ain't for me and I am entitled to not like good games I don't want to play. Come last night I look through my steam list; being stuck on a macbook because my PC went to ♥♥♥♥, and I see these games. I thought: "♥♥♥♥ it. This'll kill 20 minutes while I actually find a reason to never play these games again." OH! How I was WRONG! Both games kick ass and here's a little rebuttal to all of the negative comments because they're all pretty much the same thing for both games. This is not Terraria so if you're a mega fan then don't expect the same mechanics to work the same. They can have the same definition but that doesn't mean that they do the same thing. If I double jump in Crash Bandicoot then I just jump twice but if I do it in Spyro I jump twice and glide. Why would I expect them to do the same thing in two different games just because they have the same definition? Yes, I know it's not the best example in the world but you're in the right ball park for the picture I'm trying to pain so don't nit pick that because you'll just be lying to yourself. Which brings me to my next talking point: nit picking. People seem to really like to nitpick this game to the point of dystrophy. I can see why but at the end of the day the only credible "nit picks" are aesthetic or simple things like being able to slide and get stuck in destroyed rooms when exploring old buildings. There are some glitches but far and few in between. I guess there's no more internet play with the first and I haven't played the second so I can only assume the servers are active there (maybe not) but I digress. The only other major thing to complain about is that it's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy to make the game artifact and once in the right settings it's smooth AF breh. Otherwise if you got your ♥♥♥♥ in the wrong settings: EXPECT YOUR GAME TO CRASH. Otherwise pretty much every thing can run these games. The difference? The second game shows a world that's grown a lot; back into some thing similar to what it once was. The first game is for more of a deprived setting and the graphics kind of help establish it as such too with the second game being much more animated. It kind of plays into it all in my opinion. Is there any thing I don't like about these games? The story isn't really there. I mean just pick up what you pick up from playing and observing the world around you because the actual story just seems a little... Well if you've played D&D it's like a campaign that you're just not really into but it's still based on pre-existing lore so you're still half participating while looking for hidden walls in forests to piss off your friends or making your character into a bear with high charisma so you can fool all npcs into thinking you're a person without actually saying any thing but "UrgGGUhruRUhrurUhhhhhhh." Yeah, it's kinda like that. Look, I can't understand why this game wouldn't be for you and honestly don't buy the first. Buy the second. If you're gonna get the first then you're going to do it because you want to play a simplified version of number two. Playing number one is like picking Deprived in darksouls. Totally worth the full price. Any one who says it isn't, isn't considering the sheer mass of content in both games. THERE IS A LOT THERE, don't let these plebs that have never played any thing but fortnite and soccer cars fool you. But if you're a cheap bastard like me then you can find steam keys for these games for almost nothing on the interwebs by just googling the name and steam key behind it (info encase you haven't been a part of steam for more than a day). I completely recommend these games. EDIT: I just played the second game. It is streamlined and simplified so if you have a hard time playing A Valley Without Wind then you're going to have a much easier time playing the second one. Only nit pick I have for number two besides the streamlined game play and controls is that you go through a tutorial any way if you click skip tutorial. OH! And for some reason it won't let you use mouse and keyboard like the first one. Not debilitating but it makes the game a little harder. To reiterate; if you can't get a hold of this game when it comes to playing it then get the second but other wise I rescind my previous suggestion and say go ahead and just buy the first and go for the second one if you feel like you're up for the expanded universe. Not the story though. Like I said before: there kind of really isn't one. There is but there might aswell not be.