Dark Throne

[b]Video[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIolj8OG3X8 A rather simple Ghost 'n Goblins and Castlevania inspired plattformer that, for the most part, is a bare boned attempt at playing in the same category as those master pieces. Controls are awkard, animations are a tad lackluster and enemy variety leaves a thing or two to be desired. It adds some RPG flavor with three stats that you can upgrade; Damage, Vitality and Energy (stamina). While not being a Souls-, or Salt & Sanctuary-game by any stretch of the imagination, it's clear where the inspirations came from. First off, the controls are clunky as you move with WAD (not S, that is used for showing your stats) and swing your active item with the cursor keys. Up arrow blocks, while the others perform various strikes. The game focuses much of its time on platforming, and most jumps require the use of "sprint jump". Now, the character doesn't run any faster when you hold "Shift", but your stamina meter will deplete. It's very strange to see that when you thought you'd be sprinting, your character instead moves at regular speed, while the stamina bars drains. Speaking of; as with all of these games you deplete stamina with your every action, but it does seem to refill rather quickly. Perhaps this is possible to upgrade, but the help screen do not show me where I can do so, even when the stats screen says I have points to spare. Right, enough about awkward character movement and dodgy help screens, let's talk a bit about the enemies. For the introductory part they seem none aware of you unless you're on the same platform or level as them. However, they will move closer to the edge of the platform they're on, making it harder to get over to and kill them without taking damage. Thankfully there are spells, protection and fire, which allows for you to either take them down from a distance or protect yourself from all damage for a little while. However, these come in form of one-time use scrolls and you cannot stack up more than 3 of each. Fireball might sound useful, but when you require all of them to take out a lowly goblin from a far, it outlives its usefulness. Protection spell is better, but is usually just a short "let me move to that enemy without getting killed in the process" type of usage, meaning you rely on it more to get to the next plattform, than getting by in skillful 1-on-1 combat. You can upgrade your character, but this relies on rescuing Roger first, an NPC locked up in a cage. On the audible side, the music in particular, seems to have been collected from a range of free music sources, including every Youtubers favorite composer, Kevin MacLeod. While the soundtrack for the most part is passable featuring your standard piano and baroccé ensembles, some are completely out of place. For instance, the song that plays in Kerbal Space Program when entering the upper atmosphere has for some reason found its way into Dark Throne ([url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12RW3NkiYg&list=PLTAcCeE2DCByBIN0RIev6mXmwtUXQ54UF&index=14]Kevin MacLeod - Frost Waltz[/url]) , which does not fit at all. Sound effects are simple, yet serviceable, but leaves some things to be desired. Ambient effects would've added a ton of atmosphere to the game, and variation in enemy grunts is almost needed if you don't want to grow tired of fighting the same enemies over and over again. I do hope the developer at least updates with controller support, as this game needs it - *badly*. Using Q and E to move your active selected item at the bottom is extremely tedious in the heat of battle and using the "Right arrow" to actually use the item is just downright confusing. Why can't you just map these to spesific buttons, since there are only a limited amount of items available anyway? Oh, and you can't rebind controls either, even when forced to use the keyboard. Also, if you like tons of typos in a game, you'll be well served here. Expect to see thing like "Demage" and "Come into a bonfire" (the what now?). It's one of those. So far I've also had the game crash a couple of times, mostly after a death when it tries to save. (Side note: Since this is a Java game, you won't find the game by its name in the task manager overview. You'll have to look for and kill a "Java (32bit) Platform task" in your task manager, usually the one eating ~600MB of your memory.) After seeing this initial launch version and its hiccups, I'd recommend waiting a while to see if it gets some much needed patches even if the game is dirt cheap. If you want medieval platform goodness, I'd much more look into Maldita Castilla" or "Salt & Sanctuary" if 2D Dark Souls sounds interesting. Rating: 3/10 - Find something else

Dark Throne é um jogo difícil e só salva qdo você encontra uma fogueira ( o qe às vezes pode estar bem longe x.x ) Você é um cavaleiro qe pode atacar com 3 tipos de golpes ( um forte e demorado e 2 mais rápidos ), pode se defender dos ataques dos inimigos com sua espada e ainda pode usar spells ( uma bolha qe te defende de ataques e qe dura alguns segundos ( suspeito qe só te defende de ataques físicos, parece qe qdo lançam spell não te defende não ) e fireballs qe dão bastante dano nos inimigos ) Você possui uma barrinha de stamina qe é gasta qdo você pula, corre ou qdo dá qqr golpe, só não gasta stamina qdo defende os golpes dos inimigos com sua espada e qdo lança spells A cada inimigo derrotado você ganha uma quantidade de xp e vai subindo de level; a cada level qe você pega, você ganha pontos de skill pra gastar em tipos variados de atributos Ao longo do jogo você encontra alguns npcs e o primeiro qe você pode libertar é o qe upa pontos em dano, vida ou stamina do seu personagem ( é só você libertar o Roger, acender a próxima fogueira qe vir e usar ela assim qe estiver acesa; assim você vai parar em outro mapa qe é onde os npcs vão ficar ) Qdo você morre, você volta pra última fogueira qe acendeu mas não perde pontos de xp nem de skill, só perde as poções de cura e todos os spells acumulados ( qdo você usa a fogueira pra ir pra área segura qe é onde os npcs se encontram você tbm perde itens e cura e os spells ;x ) Agr minha opinião pessoal sobre o jogo : eu não zerei ainda mas gostei mto desse jogo e pelo preço dele vale MTO a pena comprar; super barato e com vários bosses difíceis xD Acho qe esse jogo foi feito por uma pessoa só e as músicas são boas, o jogo tem coisinhas bem legais tipo isso de botar npcs pra gente libertar e upar depois... deve ter dado bastante trabalho pra ser feito e ficou bem legal msm Eu super recomendo :3 Good work, developer Good luck with your games! ( ^-^ )v

Well I read the pros and cons on this game and I have to agree what people are saying about this game is true but it still has excellent entertainment value and the music is good as you play along.Jump,hack,slash your way to victory and enjoy pixelated goodness all the way.If your an old school gamer then of course you will like it,if not well play it and see what games use to be like and should still be.A few glitches here and there but you can easily restart and the save feature will put you back at your cozy bonfire.Developers if your reading these reviews well you did good so keep it up and the recent improvements have made the game even better.Would not mind seeing a CRT,Scanline feature to give it that extra old school feel,but anyway keep on making good stuff like this and I will be there with my steam cash on hand.10/10 overall despite its flaws,it is old school fun done well.At the price they asking you cannot go wrong.

very hard platformer but I had a lot of fun with it. Good level up system, lots of enemies, decent bosses if a bit easy, generally ok platforming. certainly worth a dollar imho in keeping with the dark souls theme the route from the bonfire to el cyd was this games blighttown because it was hard and really bad lol. like i died more times getting to that one boss than i did to all the bosses combined.

Hilariously bad. The controls are terrible. The hit boxes are unclear and perma death will have you quitting this game long before you get anywhere interesting. There might be some good gameplay hiding in here but there is not enough good to make me wanna find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkkuM83MsIo

きっと真面目に作られたのでしょうがI/Fがとても気に入らなかったです。 左手だけで移動＋アイテムの選択＋ダッシュとアクションゲームなのにアクションを拒んでいるかのような感触でした。 右移動を人差し指でＤ 歩きとの違いがないダッシュ移動を小指でShift アイテム選択をＱとE ジャンプはＷ ボスまで行く気にもならなかったが、もし戦うとすれば左手の指を４本も並行して使わされる拷問だっただろう。 しかもキー設定を変えられない。 きっと開発者は脳内反射でタッチタイプばかりしてきた人間だろう。２０年以上前からアクションゲームはあったのにそれらをまったく知らずに作ってしまった、そうとしか考えられない。 ゲームがつまらないという訳ではないけど、どうせ返金依頼を出すだろうから先んじて買うなと書いておく。

Lol, somebody liked Dark Souls a bit too much huh? What will come next? No Man's Sky, the platformer? No seriously, not bad game, looks great! But the controls are HORRIBLE... Use WSAD to move, use the Arrow keys for the attacking moves, use R for the action button... Ehm, this is getting close to be Dark Souls' controls exactly all over again. Except for the souls, there are no souls... Hehe... Funny aspect... Too bad, the game is great, but I cannot handle the controls. For what it is worth: A great Dark Souls Platform conversion (fanbased) game. Not sure about the prize, the graphics look like the developer did some serious effort for it to make it look as great as it does. Even if it's lower pixelated then the pixelated games we are used to lately. (like that game "Open Spades" - it's old but it's still fun to play and still has a lot of people playing it today's speaking) But whatever, this game, if you can handle the akward controls, you will have a good time. The music is btw MEH, heard some of them too often in South Park episodes...

The graphics are nice. and it's very cheap. The controls are alittle awkward (controller) but you get use to them. as far as i have played it seemed ok for the price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jilst7WwOxw&feature=youtu.be

I'm very sorry, but this is a horrible game. It's broken, and it crashes from time to time. Since it's under a dollar,it makes a good achievement hunt game, wait for it to go on sale for under $0.50.

[h1] PROS : [/h1] *80 steam achivements *massive 2-3 hours gameplay *low price / playable *dark souls feeling [h1] CONS : [/h1] *the controls are a bit unusual but you can use the jumps for speedrunning so not too bad *i didnt get the story (my english is not the best tbh but looks like i can tell the same abut the creators)