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진엔딩까지 전부 클리어했습니다 - 진행을 하면서 길을 잃어버리는 순간 전을 굽는게 매우 오래걸립니다 ㄴ 처음에 했을때, 길을 몰라서 막전보스까지 42레벨로 갔다가 이건 아니다 싶어서 다시 클리어 했습니다 그나마 이제 여기는 괜찮다, 여기는 갈만하다, 하는공간은 괜찮은거 같습니다 - 퀘스트를 받으면 어디로 가라고 자세히 안 알려줍니다 ㄴ 직접 대화를 스킵하지 않고 전부 다 봐도 잘 모를 때도 있습니다 그렇다고 잘 못 봤다고 해서 퀘스트 요약본을 봐도 어딘지를 모르겠습니다 - 그래픽은 매우 좋습니다 - 보스의 난이도는 몇몇 보스 말곤 재밌었습니다 - 맵은 차이점이 좀 많지만 몇몇 맵 말곤 플렛포머나 몬스터 구조 등 나쁘지 않았습니다 - 특정 엔딩 조건 달성을 위하여 공략을 안보고 클리어하기가 매우 어려운 편에 속합니다

A chill metroidvania which is focused mostly on exploration. Visuals are detailed and varied, music adds to the atmosphere but is not al that memorable, and there is story and worldbuilding but I checked out early on. For combat you get a variety of weapons (and magical staffs for magic attacks), but for the most part they feel functional but very stiff until you unlock more attacks with them. You can equip two weapons at a time which allows for mix and matching, but outside the daggers and scythe combo (with most moves unlocked) most combinations just didn't feel like a proper match. I can't say much about the magic attacks, since I forgot I had them most of the time because they felt rather weak...to be fair I also never geared towards magic. There is a lot to explore and to mark on your map to come back to, but half of the time you get out of your way to do a short platforming challenge to get money, equipment, or a substantial amount of time you get a teleport potion. The latter genuinely baffles me, because that has to be one of the most mundane rewards for going out of your way, because you are spending time to get a teleport potion to save yourself time from backtracking...? Mix and matching equipment can also be a lot more tedious than it should be, because you don't get a proper oversight of what the different mix and matching does to your stats compared to your prevous set. Personally what took me of the pacing the most is the ambiguity of where you are supposed to go next. I don't want a metroidvania to handhold me on where to go next, but if you unlock a mandatory for progression teleporter in an inconspicuous location which you forgot to mark it should have been marked by the game. Most important locations are marked and I completely forgot about it...So I brute forced areas which the game told me it iwas too difficult for my stats dragging the pacing down even further. When I rediscovered the teleporter I was overleveled and all the subsequent bosses in the next area where dead within a few hits, so I got robbed from those battles as well making it feel just a bit worse. What drags the pacing down as well is that if you want to explore most of the places and check if different places you marked can now be unlocked you will need a fair amount of teleport potions which drains your money fast (though the game is quite generous so for stuff you want you will have enough most of the time, but if you are an explorer like me you'll run out eventually) a nice QoL would have been to unlock free teleporting at some point just so I don't have to grind for money for the moments I feel like exploring more. The [spoiler] True final boss/ending [/spoiler] is locked behind a quest line in new game plus. For how much I might have enjoyed the game I genuinenly don't care enough about the story nor the game to spend more time on it. Also shame on the developers for doing this, arbitrarily locking away content for a meaningless extension of gameplay. TLDR: Nice enough metroidvania, wished it had some more QoL and better rewards for exploration to respect my time more. Perfect game to binge watch something on the side, I would have dropped the game halfway if I wasn't watching something else.