Dorke and Ymp

"Dorke and Ymp" is an ancient game from 1993. It's a whopping 30 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge. This 2D platformer has locked resolution, but the developers decided to make it look like it had widescreen support by adding panels to cover the pillarboxing. They're not fooling anyone. In fact the game looks more like it's in 1:1 resolution than 4:3... either way, not up to scratch given widescreen gaming was popularised and became the standard back in around 2006. No exuses here, if they can work out how to sell the game on Steam, they can work out how to modernise it. Failing to do so just represents a lazy cash grab on the part of the "developer" (who really got the rights to someone else's abandonware game and is trying to cash in on it). This is a fairly run of the mill puzzle platformer with a fantasy theme, you're the antihero, as a goblin, your goal is to kill your enemies in the forest, but get this, the enemies are Hobbits. That's a term that's copyrighted by the Tolkein Estate, so there's every chance and hope the "developers" behind this will land themselves with a nice big copyright lawsuit. But probably just a cease and desist. However, because this is most certainly infringing copyright, be warned, because if the Tolkein Estate ever finds out about this, there's a real chance it will be removed from Steam. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only appears around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. "Dorke and Ymp" is stupidly overpriced for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $7 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again.

Dorke and Ymp is one of those games where you’re not entirely sure what’s going on, but you’re too busy dodging enemies and grabbing loot to care. You play as two tiny mischief-makers, one’s good with magic, the other’s good with smashing stuff and together you stumble through levels that look like they were drawn straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon. The gameplay? Imagine if an old-school action platformer had a baby with a puzzle game. You swap between the two characters, solve simple puzzles, whack enemies, and try not to fall into bottomless pits (which I did… often). The controls take a little getting used to, but once you figure them out, it’s a breezy, colorful romp. The art style is charming in that “90s console game that time forgot” way, and the soundtrack fits the goofy energy perfectly. It’s not here to reinvent the wheel, it’s here to give you a few hours of lighthearted fun and maybe a little nostalgia kick. 8/10 — would send Dorke into danger while Ymp stands back and judges.

I like this game it's dorque and imp that cancelled snes game but dorke and ymp is good so ya i like this game

Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library Note: Steam-Refund TLDR: Controls are broken out of box. Rebinds on Xbox360 works but is still broken. Had to press down on joypad to act as enter even though it was bound to start. Engine spazzes out in display settings permanently. Not much to say. Even getting a game started navigating the menus was hard. Despite a custom rebind I have to use an odd combination of keyboard and controller to be able to access all of the UI. (e.g. inventory uses keyboard, parts of movement keyboard another part uses remote) To make things worse the game has some news/update info about going in display modes to test with blurry aspect of game. So I tried pixel smoothing and it resized the window, got rid of the title/toolbar menu making the display function no longer accessible (its not an in-game feature more of an overlay toolbar from the window of the game) The game is blurrier with smoothing and I cannot resize or fullscreen. I tried reinstalling the game from scratch and the settings are somehow still being remembered. I decided to ask for a refund. I realize this is a dosbox port but the state it is in is not acceptable. It is a shame too because the goblin/demon sprites looked lovely, the music was charming, and the core gameplay looked like a good formula.

糟糕的游戏，虽然看游戏版权时间显示大概是93~94年的游戏 但既然把它放在15年来卖，那就不能因为年代问题来给本身找借口 这游戏的操作手感极度糟糕，视角跟随也非常恶心，尤其往下掉落的时候，根本跟不上掉落速度 其他也不说了，反正就是个毫无特色的“老”游戏

アクションゲームではなくパズルアクションゲームで、何度も死にながら同じステージ内で必要なアイテムや進行ルートを探す事になります。 死ぬ度にステージの最初に戻されます。 コインだけは失われません。 大きい鍵を取って出口の扉に行くとステージクリアとなります。 他のアイテムは、宝箱をあける鍵、ブロックを破壊できる爆弾、体力回復のツボや食べ物など。 ポーズ中にセレクトを押すとすぐに死ぬ事ができます。 一時間以上プレイし、7ステージくらいまで進みましたが、ずっと森のステージで、登場する敵やギミックも同じため飽きてきました。 パスワードコンティニューのようですが、そのパスワードが全然出てこず、このままプレイし続けても退屈なのでギブアップしました。 元々はスーファミ用に作られていたゲームのようで、グラフィックはわりと美しいのですが、肝心のゲーム部分は正直おすすめしがたい出来でした。 操作性もかなり悪く、敵の攻撃を理不尽に食らって死ぬ事が多く、本当にひどいゲームです。

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[h1]Dorke and Ymp: Uma Jornada Épica de Magia e Aventura[/h1] Introdução: Em um mundo cheio de magia e maravilhas, mergulhe em uma emocionante jornada em "Dorke and Ymp". Este jogo cativante é uma mistura de quebra-cabeças, aventura e plataforma que o levará a locais mágicos, onde você deve cumprir tarefas para um Mestre Feiticeiro malvado em troca de treinamento e feitiços poderosos. Puzzles Desafiadores: A jornada começa com uma série de quebra-cabeças intrigantes. À medida que você progride na história, esses desafios se tornam mais complexos e gratificantes. Resolver cada enigma é uma vitória em si, e a sensação de conquista é uma das melhores partes deste jogo. Magia e Aventura: A magia é o cerne da experiência em "Dorke and Ymp". Conforme você completa tarefas para seu Mestre Feiticeiro, você ganha acesso a feitiços cada vez mais poderosos. Essa sensação de crescimento e aprimoramento é gratificante e se encaixa perfeitamente na narrativa. Personagens Carismáticos: Dorke e Ymp, os protagonistas, são personagens cativantes. A evolução deles à medida que ganham experiência e habilidades é notável. Suas personalidades únicas adicionam profundidade à história e criam uma conexão com o jogador. Recomendação: "Dorke and Ymp" é uma experiência mágica e desafiadora que irá cativar sua imaginação. Se você é fã de quebra-cabeças, aventuras e histórias envolventes, este jogo é altamente recomendado. Prepare-se para mergulhar em um mundo de magia, desafios e crescimento pessoal. Dorke e Ymp estão prontos para embarcar nessa jornada com você.

Эта игра не была выпущена в своё время. Как и говориться в описании некие разработчики восстановили часть игры и дописали оставшуюся. И получилось у них супер. Игра и вправду вышла в 2015 году, хотя должна была выйти в 1992. Всё в лучших традициях. Игра нереально сложная и откровенно издевается над игроком спрятанными квестовыми предметами, потайными ходами и .т.п. Но, всё проходимо, нужно лишь терпение и упорство. Всего 40 уровней, после каждых 10-ти босс. Сами уровни интересные, боссы не повторяющиеся. Совет: не забывайте, что вы играете за гоблина, а они любят золото и его нужно собирать, потому что в один прекрасный момент я застрял на уровне, потому что нужно было купить квестовый ключ, а золота на уровне было мало. Типа ты сам лоханулся, что на прошлых уровнях много тратил золота и мало его собирал. Мне повезло, у меня было предыдущее сохранение на два уровня назад и я смог загрузиться и собрать сколько нужно и продвинуться дальше. Кстати на счёт сохранений. Спасибо огромное разрабам, что они вообще есть. Без них было бы просто жесть.

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