Bramble: The Mountain King

For someone who just started playing video games, this was fanastic

Wow, what a gem! Nordic folklore, genuinely terrifying characters, incredible sound design, and then, in the next scene, beautiful landscapes and adorable animals. I was so pleasantly surprised by this game and can highly recommend it!

Me encanto el juego, pasa de verse como un cuento mágico a convertirse en una pesadilla llena de criaturas horribles y escenas incómodas pero memorables. La música, el diseño, la ambientación hacen que cada capítulo se sienta único. Lo recomiendo mucho :3

Эта игра сделала из меня гомофоба... Ну реально, какой же этот Олле бесячий ноющий Эдик. И бегает дебильно, из-за некачественной физики. Лица персонажей стремные. Особенно у рогатой бабы. Есть одна п**но-студия, которая делает 3D мультики для извращенцев (друг рассказывал), там такие же лица. Сюжет — муть какая-то из непонятных кусков. В геймплее абсолютно ничего изобретательного нет. Разработчикам самим не было грустно и удручающе в миллионный раз делать то, что уже было в других играх? И реально есть ощущение, что игра — просто намеренная компиляция из других. При этом Little Nightmares тут близко нет. Жестокость ради жестокости. Игра детская вообще по своей сути и простая. К чему эти 500 ударов мечом в рожу рогатой? У вас тут не The Last of Us. Тем не менее игра объективно неплохая. Можно более-менее приятно побегать по красивому миру. Нейтральной оценки тут нет, поэтому приходится ставить диз.

本来以为是小小梦魇的代餐游戏，结果彻底被这游戏折服了，没有游戏比Bramble更懂黑暗童话，带着孩童的天真去冒险，去感受，去成长，好想抱抱弟弟，你后悔就没有救下那些人，你为了姐姐可以不顾一切，这一路上的你有多勇敢，只有我们（玩家）知道删除

I have a lot to say about this game. I got this game on a massive sale and I will say that I think that is the only way it should be purchased. The price point for this game is absurd not only for length of gameplay but for quality of it as well. Initially, this game is quite charming, albeit with clunky controls. Olle can be quite difficult to control at time, with keyboard or with controller. However, I was fine overlooking that as the game seemed to have some cohesiveness in how it worked and the level at which the difficulty rested. But past a certain point, it became tedious and frustrating. Where it had a logical route at one point, it dissolves that with next to no notice while also throwing in new mechanics or ways of navigating the terrain that are not intuitive. This makes much of the later game a trial-and-error as you unsuccessfully evade death time and time again. Olle will also seemingly get a mind of his own at times and decide not to climb things. Many times I thought something was unclimbable because he would simply jump in front of it. I'd look up a guide and it would tell me that was the correct way to go and I'd have to orient Olle perfectly to get it to work. The music is fine and the storytelling is okay as well. I didn't care much for any of the characters so what happened to 99% of them wasn't really something I was terribly worried about. Some of the boss fights were cool then the mechanics would get beaten to death and all life would be sucked from them. For a game from 2023 the graphics are okay, since there was clipping in cutscenes and some of it just looked sloppy at times. I truly wanted to like this game but the more I played, the more frustrated I became. I am all for games that are challenging, but this game presented as a relatively simple puzzle game with platforming and horror elements and then decided it wanted to be tedious at the drop of a hat.

This is a solid 6/10 game, and is more deserving of a middle thumb rather than a thumbs down. TLDR: the game falls off in pacing, boss fights, colour (literally), overall world design, and soundtrack in the last third, dragging the entire experience down. Absolutely would not buy full price. The first two thirds of this game are wonderful; the game is a cross between a walking simulator and light platformer. Set initially in an enchanted forest outside of the siblings home, the game gradually descends into darker, more gorey areas as you try to find your sister. The characters and enemies you meet are well presented: there is no spoken conversation in the game, but through basic character interactions you know who your friends and enemies are, and the enemies in this game seriously hate children. The biggest issue with this game is pacing. You will absolutely fly through the first few chapters, visiting many different areas in very little time. The pacing starts to slow at the swamp, and then comes to a crawl at the shapeshifter boss fight. The game, imo, seriously breaks down at the shapeshifter boss fight, and becomes honestly boring for the remainder of the run through . The boss fights aren't great in this game anyway, but this fight in particular is so artificially drawn out (and has multiple stages). It kills the momentum built up in the first half of the game, Following that, the fantastical but dangerous forest is replaced by a near grayscale burnt forest and abandoned zombie village. The whole washed out zombie village segment completely un-immersed me. The goal of finding your sister is rarely mentioned throughout this segment, and the last third of the game almost entirely focuses on a fairy tale around an old king. The entire village, boss, rowing, and mountain segment are just boring. The noticeable lack of colour or any reason to be interested persists for this third of the game. The final boss is a terrible fight, requiring no skill or anything you've learnt on your journey. It is a simple dodge and shoot. The experience is further lessened by 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' as the track for the fight. I imagine this was meant to be clever, but it doesn't fit the fight in the slightest and is jarring with the entire game. in summary, if you can get this on Kinguin for a quid like I did, pick it up.