Against Great Darkness Prologue

Really great gamefeel! Fun different kind of game, brick breaker with enemies coming at you, i can see this getting really chaotic and fun later on in the game. love the mythology vibes as well. And It's pixel art but manages to look really clean and distinctive from other games in that style which i think is really hard to do and worthy of praise for sure, gonna be worth a pick up when it fully releases!

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Игра 'Against Great Darkness Prologue' — это мрачное фэнтезийное приключение, которое с первых минут погружает в атмосферу безысходности и борьбы. Разработчики создали мир, где каждая тень таит угрозу, а надежда — редкий и хрупкий цветок. Геймплей представляет собой смесь исследования, тактических боев и менеджмента ресурсов. Особо хочется отметить систему морали персонажей, которая действительно влияет на игровой процесс и раскрытие сюжета. Визуальный стиль выдержан в темных тонах, что отлично передает дух игры, хотя порой и усложняет ориентацию на локациях. Музыкальное сопровождение добавляет напряжения и усиливает ощущение погружения. Пролог получился довольно интригующим, оставив множество вопросов и желание узнать, что же будет дальше. Это отличная заявка на что-то большое и захватывающее.

Very cool original idea, plays well, recommend. With that said, I do have some UI/UX related grievances: - Important information (health, remaining cleanses) is small and hidden in a corner. It could be a little larger or shown at the bottom center of the screen, and maybe available cleanses could be yellow. - Please sort the upgrades differently, so that the least expensive (base cost) ones are at the top of the list, and/or show cost without clicking on the upgrade. This helps tell a new player whether they can grab anything or not with just a few clicks, instead of needing to investigate the whole inventory. I would like audio cues for a few things: - Disk spawning - Hitting a fastball (i.e. I would like it to sound different from a regular hit) - Being hit to 1 health remaining

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"Against Great Darkness Prologue" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Against Great Darkness". Against Great Darkness is a failed and abandoned hybrid 2D retro pixel shoot'em up and ripoff of Atari's copyrighted brickbreaker game, Breakout, that the developer abandoned 10 months ago, yet is still trying to scam gamers into buying, despite having taken all the money and run. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Against Great Darkness, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Against Great Darkness Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to pay a whopping $7USD to the developer for their abandoned game that they are never going to finish. Does that sound like a scam to you? Sure does. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.