Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials

Format reminds me of Unepic, but the gameplay is very tedious. Darkness everywhere, constantly throwing your bat fruit to light up where to go. Extremely boring and annoying boss fights and trap rooms. On the plus side, it has nice, humorous writing.

ayo? a good game

This isn't bad. Reminds me a little bit of Souldiers but more retro, with more simple and straightforward combat. It's hard to pinpoint what turns me off of it. There are the puzzle platforming elements with plenty of annoying traps - something I'm not fond of. It's mildly unpleasant playing a game where you are always in the dark as well, particularly in 2D. 3D horror like Resident Evil works fine. While you can turn off the darkness, I feel like that goes against the whole point of the game that is clearly designed around it.

It's a good old-fashion Metroidvania. Great art. Surprisingly funny. Light-hearted but also has tight controls. Also has GREAT soundtrack

Wanted to like this and it started out great, but after a while it turned into something I didn't really want to play. I enjoyed the humour, the presentation and the fact I thought I was getting a Metroidvania. Only issue is, it's not a Metroidvania, it's a puzzle platformer, and at times, a very tough one. This wouldn't be a major issue save for the fact the actual control of the character is less than responsive and jarring. There are "dead zones" of initial input where the character doesn't move at all, making it feel unresponsive to the touch. If you don't "get up to speed" enough before jumping, you won't make where you want to go, inspiring no confidence around movement at all. When you progress and are forced into intricate jumping sections this becomes a real problem. I missed so many jumps because the character acceleration wasn't quite there when I jumped, leaving me a pixel or so short repeatedly, often ending in my death. Unsure why this design choice was made, if the player is required to do precise platforming under duress at least make sure the controls are precise and reliable. Something like Hollow Knight nails movement perfectly and doesn't enforce any sort of dead periods or weird acceleration on the player and I know, in that game, if I mess up a jump or movement, it's my fault. Not true for this game. Couple the movement issues with the control scheme being super demanding, it becomes a problem. You move with the left stick, aim "stones" (or other throwables) with the right, whilst juggling buttons for jumping, attacking and so on. When you're being asked to make multiple precise jumps, to platforms that are in motion, whilst enemies are attacking you it gets heated. As part of the same sequence the game may expect you to line up an accurate throw mid-air with the right stick in a single second before the platform you're stood on launches you into spikes. This quickly became the norm. The game turned into a giant trial an error of "can you press the right 20 inputs perfectly in the next 5 seconds whilst dealing with the weird player movement and not dying". The answer for the most part was no. This was a real shame as I genuinely wanted to progress and see the rest of the game, but I felt my time was just being disrespected and I wasn't having fun. So I turned it off and went to play something else.

Like most metroidvanias, this started slow and dull, but it soon progressed into a rather clever and charming puzzle game. Also, I <3 ^V^.

Большая глупость делать олдскульные игры с теми же проблемами.

Me he encontrado este juego por sorpresa... menuda gema oculta. El pixel art es una maravilla, el humor es el juesto para no llegar a la parodia estúpida y su jugabilidad es deliciosa. Gran trabajo de los misteriosos "Unspeakable Pixels"