Furi

It's a game with pretty cool vibes and interesting ideas but that ultimately feels underwhelming and unfinished more than anything. I'd give it somewhere between a 4/10 and 5/10. The whole game is essentially just a boss-rush, so you're just going from one boss to the next back-to-back with no other gameplay. You do have a few minutes in-between each boss fight of mandatory slow-ass walking as you vaguely get some information about the world/story infodumped on you, but I wouldn't really qualify that as "gameplay" (especially since the game literally has a button to autowalk through them for you). While I do think the idea of the game and what story you are given is pretty cool, I think it's a terrible disservice that the whole game is just back-to-back boss fights. A boss fight should feel important to the player and be a noteworthy moment in the experience of the game, but none of them are because there's no other actual gameplay to pad between them to give them weight. Ultimately, the whole game feels like playing an incomplete demo or dev test, which was extremely underwhelming. In regards to the quality of what gameplay there is, it's alright. The combat mechanics took me through the second boss fight to fully get used to, but there's really nothing special to them. There are 9 bosses (with an optional 10th), and while some do offer a good amount of diversity and challenge, none feel like anything special either. I will say though that the gameplay did all feel pretty fluid—I didn't run into any bugs or jankiness—but there are so few aspects of the game that it'd be surprising if there were any noticeable bugs with them. Also contributing to the "unfinished" feeling of the game were the visuals. I can see the vibes and think they're cool, but the final quality of them falls short. I don't really care if a game has really high-quality visual assets or any at all, but whatever they do have should feel cohesive and complete. Furi's does not. Ultimately, I can't recommend getting the game, especially not for $20. It's very short, feels very much like an unfinished product, and doesn't feel very fun to play. From the first few minutes of the game, I was already feeling exhausted with it. I got a little invested midway through, and the ending(s) post-credits were actually pretty decent, but it doesn't make up for such lackluster gameplay.

Such a phenomenal game. I didn’t expect it to be this good. The game itself can be finished within 4 hours or less, depending on how good you are. But the real challenge begins after completing the game on Furi difficulty, because you unlock Furier difficulty, which is about three times harder than the normal mode i fell like. This game is all about boss fights there aren’t many of them, but every single one feels unique. The Furier difficulty changes the fights by adding faster pace, new attacks or by upgradeing old ones. It’s something really fun to experience. As I said, it’s a short game technically, but in practice it can take around 20–25 hours to 100% complete it. I personally burned out after beating all the bosses on normal and hard witch took some time. Still, I don’t regret a single minute spent with this game.

I die a lot but at least the soundtrack was fire

much bosses

Furi is something different... It looks stylish and calm, but plays fast, brutal, and demanding. Every win feels earned.

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very good