Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

Not a huge fan, but it's pretty good. The unique movement is fun, made it worth sticking out despite the awkward design. Most of the game goes pretty smoothly, and by the time you're at the super annoying stuff, you should be in too deep to quit. If you think it looks cool, try it out, what's the harm? Ok now the bad bits, I hated the backtracking. Not the game for it, and locking fast travel behind a late-game unlockable was diabolical (though acquiring it was the best part of the game imo, a very fun segment). Difficulty was also not handled well sometimes. I don't want to play a bullethell, stop throwing everything at me at once (this is a complaint about the final boss specifically). The movement is NOT fluid enough for that, far too often did I feel I got hit unfairly. Oh and the story, what even was it? Absolutely nothin' as far as I could tell. Glad the salt is happy, or sad, or not sentient, unless that's bad. So ya, not a hard recommend, but I did beat it. That must mean something, right?

Dandara is a rather good (and tough) platformer which makes the most of its novel platforming style. Everything feels smooth and refined- this is more than a proof of concept, it is damn good at being what it is. I also quite like the setting, the Salt is super interesting even if the dialogue/worldbuilding is a bit sparse. The DLC (as in, all the Hidden Realms content and associated ending) is absolutely the high point.

One of my top games, playing it on switch for... I want to say 7 years by now... Use controller if you want a somewhat logical control scheme... The mouse controls are quite funny, I enjoyed them a lot, but I have ~[i]experience[/i]~ Also, yeah, the controls are weird af, you get to struggle with them for a few hours but you get an amazing speedrunning game out of it. [strike] Oh, and the game keeps trying to trick you to slow down, don't beleive it, you can serpentine through most things with a few well placed attacks if you... can do them... hmmm... I guess once you learn the controls it gets much easier... [/strike] seriously, try this one. the DLC is free, FREE, and seamlessly integrated. The base game is worth it too. Anyways, I'm off to suffer with a no level-ups run.

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The choice of making you move around by leaping from surface to surface it's an original concept, but originality alone doesn't make a game good or appealing. At least in my opinion. I am not trying to say this game is terrible, it's just that the novelty of playing this way kinda wears off after a while and just becomes an annoying way to traverse and fight. I think a way to improve this would have been to simply allow you to move freely on surfaces, maybe replace the jump button with a button to leap between surfaces, but you can move and attack freely otherwise just like any other metroidvania game. But this is just my personal take, maybe the devs intended the game to be plaid this way and only this way, but the risk of doing that is that this will only attract very niche audiences that are into this kind of game with unusual controls.