Foregone

crazy that the same mfs made my singing monster

[h1] ハクスラ横スクロールアクションゲーム [/h1] 1周目は普通に楽しめる、２週目は装備集めで楽しめる・・・・・ ハクスラ要素もあるというがそこまで敵やボスが強いわけではない ので良装備が出るまでとかは考えない方がいいかも、試す相手が 居ない感じなのです。 １周目のラスボスは相手が攻撃する前に瞬殺できました。 装備OPは余波の範囲とダメージ・充填爆破関係少しと オーバーロードのOP出来るだけ積んでオーバーロード使って瞬殺 でした、クリダメ・クリ確率がもっとも重要と感じました。 ２週目も同じような装備の上位互換装備してラスボスは瞬殺は 出来なかった・・まぁ１０秒くらいなんだけどでも。 [h1] 個人的にこのゲームは買いかどうか [/h1] ハクスラ要素を求めるなら微妙、普通にハクスラ要素もある 横スクロールアクションとしてみれば面白いと思う。

Foregone, developed and published by Big Blue Bubble, is a 2D action-platformer that mixes the tight combat of metroidvanias with the structure of a loot-driven progression system. It’s a game that wears its influences openly—echoes of titles like Dead Cells, Castlevania, and even Diablo ripple throughout its design—but it forges its own identity through hand-crafted level design, a grounded tone, and a sense of fluidity that prioritizes precision and pace. What sets Foregone apart from many of its peers is its balance between accessibility and complexity. It never overwhelms the player with dense mechanics or punishing difficulty but instead focuses on delivering a consistently engaging rhythm of combat, exploration, and reward. The result is a game that feels familiar but refined, a deliberate attempt to craft a more structured and story-oriented take on the fast, rogue-lite formula. The game casts the player as an Arbiter, an elite warrior tasked with defending the crumbling city of Calagan from a mysterious force known as the Harrow. This setup serves as a backdrop for what is primarily a journey through ruins, laboratories, forests, and fortresses—each region offering glimpses of a civilization that has been hollowed out by corruption. The story itself unfolds through fragments of logs, brief voiceover monologues, and environmental cues rather than lengthy exposition. It’s a minimalist approach that lets the world speak for itself. The Arbiter’s mission feels lonely and burdened, as though she’s fighting against inevitability as much as against her enemies. While the narrative isn’t particularly complex, it carries an undercurrent of melancholy that adds texture to the action. It’s not the story that drives the experience, but it provides just enough weight to give the combat and exploration a sense of purpose. Visually, Foregone is a stunning display of modern pixel art craftsmanship. Every background is alive with motion—clouds drift, rain falls, machines hum, and ruins decay in slow, atmospheric detail. The lighting effects are particularly impressive, layering soft glows, shadows, and particles over the environments in ways that create depth and dimension. The Arbiter herself moves with remarkable grace, her animations flowing seamlessly between attacks, dodges, and jumps. There’s a tactile sharpness to the visuals that reinforces the feeling of precision in combat; every swing, bullet, and explosion carries visual clarity. The art direction avoids over-saturation or chaos, instead relying on a cool, moody palette that fits the game’s tone of desolation and resolve. It’s one of those games that can stop you mid-combat just to admire how its world looks in motion—a reminder that good 2D design can still rival fully 3D productions in visual storytelling. The heart of Foregone lies in its combat system. It combines melee and ranged mechanics in a way that constantly pushes the player to stay in motion. The Arbiter can carry both weapon types simultaneously—a sword paired with a bow, for example—and the flow between them is designed to feel seamless. Ammunition for ranged weapons is regenerated through melee attacks, which creates a natural rhythm of alternating between close and distant combat. Each weapon class has its own timing, reach, and combos, from swift daggers and dual blades to slower but more devastating hammers and greatswords. The responsiveness of movement and attack inputs makes every encounter feel deliberate, even during chaotic battles. Enemies telegraph their attacks clearly, allowing the player to react with quick dodges or precise counters. The game rewards aggression balanced with awareness—you can’t simply button mash your way to victory, but neither does it punish you excessively for small mistakes. The combat strikes a satisfying middle ground between skill-based precision and approachable flow. Complementing the combat is the game’s progression system, which borrows from loot-driven RPGs. Enemies drop weapons, armor, and accessories of varying rarity, each with different stat bonuses or passive abilities. The loot comes frequently, ensuring a constant sense of reward, but it also creates a subtle tension: deciding whether to chase better numbers or stick with a weapon that feels comfortable in play. The Arbiter can enhance or dismantle items at specific checkpoints, using collected materials to improve stats or craft new gear. Beyond equipment, there’s a skill tree that unlocks new abilities, from energy blasts and healing fields to more aggressive dashes or area attacks. The system isn’t overly complex, but it offers enough customization to tailor your playstyle. What makes it work so well is that it never bogs the player down with excess—progression feels like a reward for mastery rather than a grind for resources. The level design in Foregone is distinctly hand-crafted rather than procedurally generated, setting it apart from many modern platformers. Each area is built with intentional flow, mixing combat arenas, traversal challenges, and secret detours that reward exploration. While the world is segmented into stages rather than a single interconnected map, the pacing between linear progression and optional discovery feels well-judged. There’s a genuine sense of advancement as you move from one biome to another, encountering new enemies and environmental mechanics. Boss battles serve as climactic tests of both reflexes and endurance, often demanding mastery of movement and timing rather than brute force. These fights are among the game’s highlights—tough but fair, visually striking, and punctuated by the game’s excellent music, which blends somber tones with driving electronic beats that echo the tension of combat. Despite its many strengths, Foregone has limitations that hold it back from greatness. The story, while serviceable, never develops beyond its initial premise. Characters remain underdeveloped, and the Arbiter’s personal arc feels more implied than realized. Some of the game’s progression systems can also feel superficial after a few hours; while loot drops frequently, the differences between gear often amount to incremental stat changes rather than meaningful gameplay shifts. Enemy variety is solid early on but thins toward the later sections, with reskinned or behaviorally similar foes reappearing across multiple biomes. Additionally, while the combat feels responsive, certain platforming elements—particularly sliding and double-jumping through hazards—can feel slightly inconsistent, breaking the game’s otherwise fluid motion. These issues don’t ruin the experience but remind the player that Foregone is a tightly constructed game operating within modest ambitions. Nevertheless, the overall experience of Foregone remains deeply satisfying. It captures the joy of fast-paced, skill-based combat within a beautifully realized world while maintaining accessibility that makes it approachable to both casual and dedicated players. It may not innovate on the metroidvania formula in dramatic ways, but it refines it, polishing familiar systems into a cohesive, enjoyable package. Its blend of deliberate pacing, handcrafted design, and high production value make it one of the more underrated titles in the genre. For players who crave a balance of elegance, challenge, and visual artistry in a side-scrolling action game, Foregone delivers an experience that feels both classic and contemporary—a testament to how far tight design and visual excellence can carry a game, even without reinventing the wheel. Rating: 8/10

I loved this game, and would love to see a sequel. The environments look great, combat and platforming feel satisfying, and there's enough to the game for a decent amount of replay value.

A beautiful action-platformer with character progression, tons of gear, and Souls-like elements that focuses not so much on difficulty and hardcore mechanics as on the dynamics and aesthetics of combat

It looks pretty nice on the surface, but once you start playing, you find some pretty glaring issues. The combat is simplistic and repetitive, the control you have is pretty limited (no aiming, no blocking, no parry, very limited set of skills, can only use two skills at a time, etc etc), and to make matters worse, the hitreg / hitboxes have serious issues. Pretty good looking as it is, it's not that fun to play even when the gameplay works, and the further you get in the game, the more you encounter issues. Also, the loot system and the items in this game are just crap. You can get fairly high level items very easily, the upgradability is super limited, to reroll modifiers, you have to do really bad side content... Dude, this game is f-cking 6-7 hours long tops - and repetitive after 1 hour, I'm not spending 20 hours regrinding crap side missions for the miniscule chance of getting a stat+ modifier that fits the rest of my loadout. The loot system showers you in absolute horde of useless trash of various color "quality" with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stat+ upgrades and absolutely miniscule chance of getting an actual coherent build, because you would have to grind literal hundreds of hours of ♥♥♥♥ time limited side missions for a chance to reroll modifiers to fit. This game absolutely does not respect the player's time - and it doesn't even respect it's audience enough to at least make the waste of time bearable by being even marginally fun to play. There is a reason why only less than 30% of the playerbase actually got to defeating the third boss, out of what, 7-8? And it sure as sh-t ain't the game being difficult.

[h1]Direto ao ponto, fluido e extremamente divertido[/h1] [b]Foregone[/b] é um daqueles jogos que parecem entender perfeitamente o valor do tempo do jogador. Enquanto o gênero muitas vezes aposta em labirintos excessivamente complexos e em uma dificuldade punitiva para estender as horas de jogo, este título segue pelo caminho oposto: [b]fluidez, dinamismo e diversão direta.[/b] [h2]O que faz o jogo ser tão bom:[/h2] [*] [b]Ritmo e História Dinâmica:[/b] A história cumpre exatamente o seu papel. Ela é simples, mas dinâmica, servindo como o motor que te empurra para a frente sem interromper o fluxo do gameplay com diálogos intermináveis. O foco aqui é a ação. [*] [b]Mapas Sem Enrolação:[/b] Um dos maiores méritos do jogo é o design dos mapas. Eles são simples e diretos, o que impede que o jogador se perca o tempo todo ou passe meia hora andando em círculos olhando para o mapa. A exploração é natural e recompensadora. [*] [b]Excelente Jogabilidade e Arsenal:[/b] O combate híbrido (corpo a corpo + armas de fogo) é extremamente fluido. Há uma enorme variedade de armas e equipamentos para encontrar, e os upgrades realmente fazem você se sentir cada vez mais poderoso. [*] [b]Chefes Divertidos e Justos:[/b] Os chefes dão total liberdade para você ter uma luta limpa, baseada em reflexo e habilidade. O jogo não tenta te vencer pela frustração: os padrões são claros e você não precisa morrer 10 vezes para aprender a passar de um boss. [h2]Visual e Arte[/h2] Além de tudo isso, o jogo conta com um pixel art espetacular e animações incrivelmente fluidas. O visual é limpo, o que garante excelente clareza visual durante os combates, sem efeitos desnecessários borrando a tela ou atrapalhando a jogabilidade. [h1]Veredito[/h1] [quote] Se você procura um jogo de plataforma e ação com ótimos sistemas de upgrade, combate afiado e que respeita o seu tempo sem enrolação na progressão, [b]Foregone[/b] é uma recomendação obrigatória. É o tipo de jogo que foca no que realmente importa: a diversão direta. [/quote] [b]Nota: 9/10[/b]

This is a good platformer game with a decent combat control system. The game seems like it is more suitable in new game+.