Fantasy Network

Cool presentation - nice blend of Adventure Island-style gameplay and Saturday Morning cartoon vibes - but it would be nice to have V-Sync as an option, as there is some screen tearing. Still, it's got a great connected world and some cool arcade-style extra mini-games and the demo is something you may want to try out if screen-tearing bugs you.

Fantastic game! Really enjoyed it, hoping to see a co-op mode added soon!

Lyn wakes up from a strange dream and realizes that her mother was kidnapped by some tyrant who wants her to become the new president by winning five talent shows. A huge and unusual responsibility is thrown at you right at the start, but the way to accomplish it is through a mix of platforming and fighting while exploring a colorful world, increasing your status through social apps, and making friends. Sadly, some elements don’t land well and ruin much of the game’s appeal. The controls are standard for a side scrolling platformer, and there’s not much to worry about. There’s a jump, attack, block, and item attack. Your basic attack is fine, and you can punch enemies into the air by pressing up along with the attack, or bounce on them by pressing down with the attack when you’re on top of them. Block can be stationary, or you can dash through an enemy, but this has an annoying cooldown and works only on enemies, not other threats. Finally, the item attack button throws the current item. These items are found by smashing breakable objects that are scattered throughout the stages. They can be bombs, shurikens, or something else, and they come in limited supply. You can only equip one at a time, but nothing goes to waste because your inventory holds everything, so you can smash and collect everything. The bad news is that the default button placement doesn’t conform to established standards and makes gameplay a chore. The worst news is that the buttons can’t be customized, not even for a gamepad. If we stick with the gamepad scheme, commands are placed one button away from where you’d expect them. So, instead of having the attack tied to the left button of the face cluster, Button X, it’s tied to the bottom button, Button A, which is usually reserved for jumping. In this game, jumping is tied to the right button, Button B, while Button X throws items. To make things even more complicated, the block button is on the top, Button Y, which makes it impossible to press efficiently during battles when the attack button is on the opposite side. Starting from your town, you can travel to several battle maps. There are several cities around where you can talk to many people and add each one to your friend list, but some will only accept you when you share the same interests. These interests can be learned by examining things in the cities, such as billboards, or by talking to more unique characters. Followers will sometimes send donations to your house in the form of free items, such as keys, healing items, and so on. One unique but ultimately disappointing feature in the cities is the arcade machines, where you can play games that pay homage to classics. Unfortunately, they are incredibly brutal in terms of difficulty and borderline unplayable. The worst is the beat ’em up game, which is nothing but cheap shots, damage stuns, and instant kills. Each basic enemy feels like a final boss because it dodges or blocks your attacks while hitting you right through your button mashing. The broken gameplay is somewhat negated by the fact that you have unlimited continues and lives. Fortunately, you don’t have to suffer through them. Anyway, unlike most games, in which you progress through small or large screens and uncover the map as you explore, each location here is one huge map. Sadly, they’re incredibly boring and look like a handful of assets were thrown into a randomizer without any interesting features. Each map is either a maze of paths or a huge collection of platforms, environmental threats such as spikes, and repetitive enemies. And as much as the game calls itself one, this is not a metroidvania because, except for having an interconnected world, it misses all the other ingredients. You can check out the map layout, but it doesn’t show anything except exits. This is a problem because you don’t see people, interesting spots, collectibles, or chests with loot. What’s more, valuable chests require keys hidden across a stage, which forces you to explore the entire map or get lucky with a drop from an enemy. Normal chests and destructible objects reset when switching maps, so if you find one nearby, preferably with money, you can grind. And grind is ridiculous because everything costs money, and there are loads of shops offering all kinds of expensive stuff, not to mention the contests you have to win, which also cost money. Shops offer different clothes and skates, each with a unique perk such as auto heal, more defense, better jumping, faster movement speed, or something else. But again, you can equip only one item per type, so you’ll probably spend a lot of time switching between them according to your current needs. Then you can go to a gym to add a combo to your attack, lower the cooldown for your dodge move, or boost your main weapon, the umbrella, with various elemental attacks that also let you destroy certain things. This, however, doesn’t require just coins but also a rare material that needs to be found in chests. Fast travel costs money, but it only works between neighboring cities, and you also have to pay each time you want to travel to locations you can’t walk to. Payment also goes for inns, where you can rest to heal, while saving is fortunately free. Resting moves the time of day forward to afternoon or evening, but this isn’t that vital except for certain stores and locations that are open or closed at certain times of day. Alternatively, you can just wait, but it takes a long time. The worst hassle, however, is the mobile phone shop, where you have to recharge your phone. The problem is that your phone has several quality of life apps that won’t work without a charge. Important ones include the world map and mini map in the right corner, as well as the quest list that shows you which location you need to go to on the main world map. The rest are not that vital. There’s the titular Fantasy Network, where you have topics learned in the world and used to gain new friends, a camera that lets you take photos at marked spots, a light to illuminate dark spots, and a few other apps. So, all of the above is something you can do while traveling the world to win the five competitions. Most have a building in cities where you pay to go against an opponent, and each competition has several opponents. Of course, you need to pay for each attempt. Competitions are mini games similar to the arcade machines, but with less hassle. You have a dancing competition where you have to hit buttons that show up at the bottom, a cooking competition where you run around different cooking stations and make sure the food is perfectly cooked without getting burned, a decent racing game with turbos and rockets, and so on. After taking care of the normal opponents, you earn the right to challenge a boss in each competition.

Очень странные чувства вызвала у меня игра. Ожидал классическую метроидванию, а получил необычную смесь с огромным хабом, социалками и кучи различных активностей с мини играми. Недостатки: - нет облачных сохранений - разрешения экрана нет. есть только несколько вариантов и если в полный экран то скорее всего ставит 1920* (для моего телевизора нормально только 1360*768, оконный, окно без рамок или эксклюзивный полный экран) - желателен перевод (хотя базового английского возможно хватит) - такое ощущение что есть импут лаги иногда (например после 1 атаки блок не всегда поставить возможно). позже игра получила мини обновление без списка исправлений - может это исправили. https://youtu.be/yFXBNI_ZOOE

This game is very rich in content, with minigames, contests, regular & boss fights. Don't get fooled by the graphics style which looks a bit like taken from some childlish game - it's quite complex and deep. There are funny moments in the game for me but I'm not sure if these were intendended to be funny, I think it's rather my absurd sense of humor. I was expecting the social media aspect to be deeper but so far it turns out to be more like an excuse for some mechanics that aren't common in games of this genre (platofrmer, metroidvania).

I could not play this game for very long because the controls were so BAD! A to attack and B to jump?! What is that? Its not natural controls for this gamer sorry. Plus, no way to change the controls. It was more frustrating than the 1st Crash Bandicoot! The graphics are cute and colorful the mini games are fun and its a cute adventure game but, I wasn't too impressed with it; and the controls cheesed me off so bad I didn't want to play anymore. See my full review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujvadDoDNY

The user experience feels a little rough at first, but once you get used to the controls, the game becomes quite engaging and enjoyable. So far, I’ve found a lot of variety, with plenty of different areas to explore and some fun little minigames. I still need to play more to fully explore everything it has to offer, but for now, I definitely recommend giving it a try!

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That's a quirky take on metroidvania genre, too early for a full deep-dive review, but the first impression is a solid thumbs-up