EPΘCH

Been playing this game for about 3 hours, having alot of fun with it so far, if you like 16 bit graphic styles and Legend of Zelda type gameplay with an above average difficulty, this game is for you.

I would love to love this game. but first off its hard for a lot of parts. which doesnt neccessarily push me away as I like some good challenge. but then come the bugs, missing features and such. dont get me wrong, I am almost to the last area so i pushed through nonetheless. but just a few things to mention: shift is the key used for crowling. there are supposed to be "doge rolling" and (very late game) "diving" which both are supposed to use the shift key and therefor dont work. no matter how fast, slow, whatever you press shift, it's always crouching. dodge rolling and such simply dont exist in this game, despite the sign posts in the game. then there is a certain temple where you dirve around with railcars. the second railcar area has your railcar stop and you are supposed to autmatically transfer into other rail car situated there (or rather be thrown into them). well, collision detection might be the issue there but suddenly the railcar jsut stops at the end of it's tracks, putting you on top of a void spot. a slight move and the void captures you. I managed with some movement trickery to barely grasp the next car and jump in, but this section doesnt work as intended and is almost game breaking since you NEEED to pass this area. then the infinite hest inventory, which by itself is great. got 16 visible slots but can fit infinite items in. only issue: say you wanna get that certain key, or item out of the filled chest. well, you only see some random 16 of all items in there, so you gotta take out items over and over again until your desired item is shown. and by taking out, I mean: putting it into your inventory. which has also 16 slots but is NOT infinite! I think you see the issue there. and things like some scroll bar to look thorugh all the items in the chest jsut doesnt exist. then in general, lack of any tutorial. how does item forging work? how does this work, how does that work? why the hell cant I buy a sword (which has str+1, agi+1 by default, if I remeber correctly) and put on 3 new enchantments (by trial and error you learn that there can be max. 3 "effects" on a weapon. you also relaize that the initial str+1, agi+1 are hardcoded, so you cant replace them and therefor have only 2-1 effect remaining. putting on a new effect replaces the previous effect so building a custom weapon is impossible. well, none of these are ever explained though) you also got a left and right hand, aka left and right mosue button. remember reading that sign about it? me neither. ran around for quite a while with simply a sword while wondering how the fck the guy in the game guide can use sword and shield at once. there are some more things (although not game breaking, just annoying) that I cant remember right now. dont get me wrong, this game aint bad, it's a hard game that one can sure come to love depite it's difficulty. if jsut those issues that really arent gameplay issues but simply missing features and bad programming. stuff that the dev could easily fix. but if you follow the disussions and such it's obvious that he put out "patches" until 2016/2017, also did some thing in 2019 once. alwass doing some more minor or aesthetic fixes while for literally 6+ years totally ignoring the real BIG issues (mentioned above) that can soft lock you or downright make completing the game impossible. only my impresion but it feels like he doesnt give a sh and jsut fixes whatever he feels like,. ignoring the big issues. and obviously he has probably abandoned this game like 5 years, since he stopped responding to anything around 2017. oh yeah, 2 more weird things: you cant jump omn blue squares. the game never intends that you cant do it sicne there is literally a chest which you cant reach without jumping from a blue square. it's jsut ♥♥♥♥♥ programming making you unable to jump. dont ask me how he even accidentally achieved this but it sucks. had me doubt myself the first few times when I couldnt do simple jumps. but later seeing someone complain about this in the discussions, (of course no developer answer, never) so I deep tested it and yep, no jump on blue squares ever. also a thing: when on ice and you charge a bow shot, the character, ignoring all laws of momentum preservment and such, jsut slowly move towards the mouse. where you aim your charged ♥♥♥♥, character slide in that direction. obviously that is nonsense behaviour and shouldnt work that way. told you, sloppy programming/not fixing stuff mentioned many times/ignoring user complains and jsut doing whatever the fck you wanna do (for the most part, not fixing anything). So yeah, could be a good game, if the dev just some proper patdhes, not jsut fixing minor ♥♥♥♥ but rahter the few big issues. I dont even dare to buy the sequel nother sicne that seems abandoned since 2016/2017 too and I dont even wanna imagine what ugly bugs and game breaking things are in there. as said, I love the game for what it is, but the glitches and bugs can make (intentionally) hard game even much harder :-/