Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

Well, what an interesting game. I’ll say this, the art style, story and even gameplay concepts presented here are really unique. However, unique doesn’t really mean good unfortunately. The movement in this game is point and jump, linear movement to a surface, but in several occasions now I’ve had the game force my trajectory to where it though I wanted to go and not where I actually wanted to go. I can’t think of anymore more frustrating that repeatedly dying because the game thinks it knows better. Yes, please throw me into that fire ball and I’ll get stuck in the air, not the surface behind it, that’s perfect.

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.

Merece uma chance!

Bao

Really good, definitely recommend playing. Around 15 hr to 100%. Movement is super unique and well integrated into the combat, especially in the boss fights.

Very good surprise! Original and fluid gameplay, a lot of good ideas and amazing level design.

aham.

Curti.

This was surprisingly fun. Couldn't tell you what was the story, but the gameplay was solid and the final boss was a great challenge.