Beholgar

Tired of AAA games, where developers don't take any risks, and are more concerned about high resolution textures and cutscenes, I decided I'll be playing only "16bit" style games from now. And I started with Beholgar. And I must say I'm totally pleased with this first attempt in "retro style" game! Pros: - Amazing art style, totally feel like dark fantasy, Conan, Heavy Metal Magazine style. Love it! - The music is awesome, adventurous, epic. - Difficult is extremely well balanced: it leans to the easy side of things, but there's parts where you certainly will die and need to master it. - Set of weapons, magic and moves are very good and fun, like double jumps, grabbing the edge of platforms, etc... Every new upgrade made me feel very excited in using it! Cons: - A little too short. I finished in 4 hours (and spent 1 hour only farming gold to buy the blacksmith equipments). I don't like long games, but 6 to 7 hours of gameplay would be better (specially with metroidvania like games). - I like the still images that tell the story here and there, but at same time, it looks a little amateur. - There's not much to look out in old maps with the new abilities. - I farmed gold and bought the 3 itens that the blacksmith sells in the beginning of the game. After that, gold is useless, I didn't found any other vendor, nor the blacksmith showed new itens to buy. Overall, a marvelous game. Can't wait to play the follow up!

It's a bit rough around the edges, but overall, a very enjoyable old school platformer. The music is great.

開始10分くらいで「ロック」って書かれた扉が出てきて何の説明もなく、他に行く所も無いのでアンインストール で、もやもやするから動画探してみたが、少し戻ったところのレバー動かして、沈んだ足場を追いかけて飛び降りるという極めてわかりづらい解放でした。そんなんミスになると思って飛び降りんわ普通。どちらにしろ優しさが無いゲームとしてアンインストールしてました。ちゃんちゃん。

This is unfortunately a very unpolished mess riddled with bugs, some of which are game breaking like the one that occurs if you die while defeating the first boss. The default control scheme is also quite bad. Xbox controller's B for melee and X for special weapon is a very counterintuitive choice.