An Automaton's Journey

a pleasant adventure game i was most impressed with it's competency with it's design , in how it contextualizes the items with hololive , and how it's item's are new (to me) that fill niches for abilities your character can utilize , and then instead of each new one rendering the previous obsolete , most of them get re-used in later dungeons the overworld is nice to explore , as you seek to understand the curse that has befallen the land to undo it , and bonus points for some unique dungeon themes , & lots of unique mechanics right from the start of the first one , you know the dev was doing good when the player is consistently left feeling like they want more out of each aspect of the game so you can explore deeper ways to construct and solve the puzzles i found the writing to be corny and funny which is a staple for holo-games oh and the difficulty feels right too , i played through on hard mode

speeeen to win! ERB's sword is seriously overpowered, making it perfect for a roguelike newbie like me... The story is really cool, and i love solving all the puzzles in it and exploring this world! Otomos now listen, this game is full of fun easter eggs for you! I recommen :3

I intentionally avoided watching any streams of the game because I wanted to discover everything for myself. This is easily the best Hololive fan game I've ever played, and honestly one of the best top-down 2D games I've played in general. It's simply fantastic. Every single dialogue hits perfectly. The game is packed with countless inside jokes, and they're written so well that you could genuinely believe these conversations happened exactly like this between the talents. In some cases, they practically did. I'm currently about 60% through the game and unfortunately have to stop for the night because I need some sleep. But I'm already incredibly excited to continue playing tomorrow after work and I honestly can't remember the last time a game made me feel that way. I haven't even reached the ending yet, and I'm already hoping for a sequel. Huge praise to the entire development team.

This was so much fun! You made a really neat game with lots of great details, good challenges, secrets, creative dungeons, funny dialog, and more! Thank you!!

Honestly this game is genuinely just.. such an amazing and fun journey. Don't get me wrong, you will get significantly more enjoyment if you are even just remotely a hololive EN fan, but the gameplay is fun enough to where just about anyone can pick this up and have a great experience. All the dialogue feels in character and was enjoyable to read, to where i'd go out of my way to make sure I actually read everything and just.. absorb it all. Personally I played using a controller and it's honestly what i'd recommend too, as being able to switch between a joystick for general play, and a dpad when maybe I wanted to be slightly precise was an absolute blessing in certain moments. In terms of difficulty, normal mode can definitely feel a smidge easy at times, especially depending on how thorough you are with finding collectibles and increasing your health at the earliest possible moment, whereas hard mode can.. actually be a challenge at times, especially if you're going for the challenge achievements, as there were quite a few that honestly took me a fair few tries. Seriously though, everything about this game is so damn good, from the art style to the flow of the gameplay, to the music and just... absolutely everything. It oozes charm in every corner and I really really really recommend giving it a try!!!

An above average fan game. With the goal of making a SNES/GBA era Zelda game for Cecilia, the dev certainly succeeded. The amount of content is fun to complete (lots of bonus boss battles for even more cameos), the story is funny throughout, and the gear you find is useful in combat and exploration. Once you get used to her controls, Cecilia is a reliable MC who can pull off all kinds of attack and defense moves. The game also plays without any issues on Steam Deck, which is nice. For critiques, the difficulty isn't exactly a curve. The first dungeon is probably the most difficult one until the finale because the clone mechanic is extremely unforgiving. Falling in the water comes with a funny voice clip that unfortunately means it takes a bit too long to respawn, which becomes annoying in areas based around being knocked into the water consistently. Finally, you gain a lot of health (gears), but never any improved defense, which makes Ceci a huge glass cannon, which is not super accurate, her main positive trait lore wise is "durability." This one would be fixable with either an item you can get partway through for more defense (like Link's various tunics, it could be a Libestal cape or something like that) or perhaps an easier mode where you take half damage. Some of the streamers who might want to try this could struggle with taking damage in the early part and dying a lot. Overall, I do recommend and had more fun with this one than from many of the other games in Holo Indie.

Хорошая игра. В игре на удивление достаточно много контента, неплохие боссы, особенно понравился босс файт с пекорой. Для своего жанра очень неплохо

10/10 game. Perfect understanding of not only Hololive, but The Legend of Zelda. The way the dungeons are laid out, and how the puzzles evolve to teach you the dungeon are immaculate. Each item provided is useful in its own way. If you want to dodge attacks their is an item for that, if you want to tank the damage there is an item for that, if you want to absorb projectiles and shoot them back… there is an item for that. The freedom of motion and ways of attacking make this game incredibly fun and never dull. The music also absolutely slaps.

Pretty fun overall! I keep coming back even though some parts of this game inspired more rage in me than when I played Getting Over It by Bennett Foddy. The art is cute and the interactions with the holomems are pretty funny overall. I especially liked the whole dynamic between Cecilia and Gigi, it totally feels like something GIgi would do for fun on any day ending in Y. I noticed early on that when playing with keyboard, the controls feel a little... slippery? for lack of a better word. You can't change directions while moving, so as I sat there mashing WASD in the heat of battle, I'd often end up facing the wrong direction to attack. I think this is because years of keyboard gaming have conditioned me not to let go of a movement key until I pressed the new direction, since most games would immediately change your direction upon a new keystroke. I went and got a controller and my god, it's so much easier to play with the D-pad. The game is quite punishing to small movement mistakes; you get sent all the way to the beginning of the room if you fall off a ledge, so precise movement really matters. Seriously, save your sanity and play this game with a controller. The balancing of the dungeons felt a little off to me sometimes. Shiori's dungeon introduced a bunch of new mechanics that completely threw me off - hidden walls, mimics, lots of projectiles. I actually got stuck for a bit because I couldn't figure out why the entrance room was seemingly a dead end. You can also permanently make one of the rooms harder to clear just by exploring the room as you normally would. On the other hand, I don't know if I just got better at the game, but by the time I got to the final dungeon, the boss fights seemed comically easy compared to the previous ones, and I cleared them no problem. On that topic, I found some of the boss fights frustrating since it felt like they amounted to "hit the boss X times while dodging all the crap flying around the screen", which gets old after you have to restart for the 8th or 9th time because you couldn't predict where the one minor enemy or projectile was going to be. Shiori and Nerissa's fights feel like this to me. Admittedly, bullet hell is my least favorite kind of game since I get overwhelmed quickly. My favorite boss fights were Raora (clever use of the dungeon item, once I actually read the item description. imagine reading) and Calli (lots of space to move, no minor enemies and few projectiles to track, well-telegraphed attacks that hit hard, but I could learn easily, felt fair overall). Overall, I think the game could use some more polish where it counts, but it has the spirit and the charm, and in the end I had fun. Keep up the good work!