Castle In The Darkness

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not as hard as i was expecting outside of 1 area but regardless the game's really neat and charming, definitely worth a play if you like games like Cave Story. good art and music too. true ending final boss is a snoozefest though but that's kinda the only bad thing besides the presence of a few loose ends that you always expect to go somewhere the entire game and then just don't lol

Great game albeit hard, many Bosses and many Memories.

Fun. Challenging. And a love letter to classic NES games.

If you liked Super Metroid on SNES, you'll like this game. While it can be hard as nails with some jumps or bosses, none of it is impossible, and you can feel yourself get better each attempt. The same thing that you struggled with one hour in will be breezed through as you're hunting for yet more secrets.

No invincibility + bad jump + false life bar = Bad game Just buy another game your money is more valuable

A good idea, but not very well executed. The game started out with technical problems. The keyboard controls appear briefly at the main menu but disappear before really getting a chance to read them. I went to the settings menu and increased the game screen size, and the game screen corrupted and froze. After starting the game again and making it bigger, then I couldn't get my gamepad to work. Eventually I figured out that I had to go into the menu and manually switch it from keyboard to gamepad... using the mouse... really? Anyway so then I start the game and realize there is no audio. I check my computer audio, restart the game, etc., etc., eventually I figure out that both the music and sound volume are set to zero. As to the actual gameplay, the game is really fast and loose, unreasonably hard to control, and that's coming from someone who grew up with a NES and beat Zelda II. You can also die in one second flat because you only get a couple hits and not much of a flinch. I played for a bit, got to what I guess is a blacksmith and bought [spoiler]my first new weapon for 100g which was almost all I had at the time, only to find out it's the same as the starting sword and still only has 1 atk.[/spoiler] I don't know if that's supposed to be a practical joke or what, but it wasn't funny. I played a bit further, beat I think three bosses, got an upgrade that [spoiler]lets me break some cracked blocks[/spoiler], but then I started finding spikes everywhere that are instant death. And you don't keep anything since the last save when you die, so getting killed by spikes or two touches from a little bird gets frustraing quickly. I don't mind a good old-school 2D game, actually rather like them usually, but this one annoyed me.

Довольно простенькая метроидвания, если только не задаваться целью прохождения на 100 процентов и получением всех ачивок, в таком случае в определённых местах придётся попотеть. Из недостатков в игре отсутствует карта, приходилось пользоваться кастомной из сообщества.