Bramble: The Mountain King

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.

8.5/10 - Very strong first half, still strong but less so final half. Beautiful music and visuals!

Great game, very atmosferic. Grim fairy tale

I wish I could give this game a neutral review. But I'll leave it as positive because I feel like that out weighs the negative. The story is good, the bosses are interesting, it's grim and dark -- there are a lot of creepy moments that aren't quite jump scares. Overall in that it was effective. It is mostly a walking sim with a voice over, but there are some elements that are reminiscent of Little Nightmares. However, the game is janky. Sometimes you'll get hit by things you clearly dodged, sometimes you don't grab when you should, sometimes you'll just miss jumps when you shouldn't, sometimes you'll run off a ledge you didn't know was there because of the fixed camera. The running animation is also a little weird sometimes. One of the boss fights was so aggravating because of the culmination of these janky happenings that I almost uninstalled because I died so many times on a single fight. I sorta just had to Zen my way through the fight and hope that I'd stop getting killed by jank. Overall, it was a good game -- buy it only on sale, it is not worth $30. If I had grabbed it at full price, this would probably be a negative review.

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.

She (narrator) said it! She said the thing (Dark Souls)!

Espectacular juego. Si lo jugás con auriculares, prepárate para pegarte unos buenos sustos de los que no te ves venir. Nada de screamers baratos o recursos fáciles: son sustos muy bien construidos a través de la ambientación, el sonido y la propia jugabilidad. Totalmente recomendado.

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