Glo Phlox

Let me preface this a bit as I've never really written reviews before, so bear with me as I'm probably going to stumble through my explanations. I had the pleasure of playing a demo version of Glö Phlox at EGLX 2018, and given the experience I had there, I can confidently say the full release was worth the wait. Gameplay: True to its claim, Glö Phlox is indeed a twin-stick, bullet hell metroidvania. It is a fairly expansive yet simplistic world with tight controls that, in its own words, are "easy to learn and hard to master". When you aren't traversing the overworld through Cordette's Bloom Rush - which is your invuln-dash for the game - you're probably going to be fighting the myriad of enemies. Most of the game revolves around your dash and your crossbow, though it is important to note you cannot move and shoot at the same time. It may seem counter-intuitive at first, but what this makes you do is learn the enemy mechanics first and learn your openings so you can capitalize on them to dish out damage with your crossbow. The fodder is easy enough to deal with, unless you're like me and you decide to try and dash passed all of them, only to pull too many and get swamped by the projectiles. The bosses each have their gimmicks, though they are not always easy to exploit, leaving you on your toes while you balance your dodging and your offense. Each boss seems to take a few minutes even if you're up against them for the first time and learning. It might seem unfair due to the aforementioned bullet hell, but that makes it all the more satisfying when you finally get that one amazing run. Additionally, the game does a very good job at telling you where your core abilities are. At any time you can also check your map, with certain icons letting you know what you got and what you could have missed. Also, does music count as gameplay? If so, the tracks are great. In terms of cons, I can only really think of wanting a fast-travel system, though the traditional formula for metroidvanias were never really big on them. Additionally, sometimes it seems like some of the abilities don't work as intended, but that usually falls into the optional collectibles, as I had no trouble completing the game even if I didn't 100% it for my first run. Story: Cordette is an amnesiac elf searching for answers, slowly piecing together her memories as she travels through the various areas. For the sake of being spoiler-free, I can't divulge the entire plot or the characters, but I will say that I was given enough information to figure certain things out. Some may prefer the 'twist out of nowhere', but I'm a firm believer that a good twist is one that the audience can figure out, because it means it had the build-up and the information was there, and it doesn't feel injected unnaturally. The story isn't necessarily revolutionary, but it's definitely not abyssmal. Again, it's a story about an elf girl trying to figure out what's going on. That, and Cordette has the purest smile this face of the planet. All in all, Glö Phlox was a fun experience that I see myself playing over, not only to collect everything but to also find whatever hidden speedrunner strats there are. It's a good game, and it's clear to see the effort that went into it.

[quote] 加入[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ADZZW#]爱の榨汁屋[/url]&关注[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34815366/]爱の鉴赏家[/url]，用爱品鉴世间作品，用心流淌真情实感。 [/quote] [h1]《Glo Phlox》——一款“小而精”的独立游戏[/h1] [b]前言：[/b] 《Glo Phlox》是一款由JustinSennema&Eduardo Brasil联合开发的像素横版冒险解迷类游戏。玩家将扮演精灵科德特（Cordette），手持弓弩，从大自然中重获德鲁伊（druid）力量，探索六大手绘的像素风世界，报复那个将你记忆夺走的变形怪。游戏分为“简单、中等和困难”三个难度，玩家可以根据实力自行选择。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1830146346 [b]探索丰富和幻想手绘世界：[/b] 《Glo phlox》的一大亮点就是其手绘的像素风世界。其养眼的色调、卡通的怪物、丰富的地形等，营造出一个神秘而又充满未知的幻想世界。你作为精灵科德特，拥有强大的德鲁伊力量，能在各地形中穿梭自如，不用担心悬崖峭壁等过不去，一个Bloom Rush就能轻松搞定。在你探索世界的过程中，会遇到形形色色的怪物。你可以选择回避，也可以选择攻击。不过请你注意，你可能会被它们地狱般的子弹所吞没。因此在你做出选择之前，可先观察其弹道轨迹，再做决定。但是，当你再次路过某地时，那里的怪物会重新刷出，无穷无尽。因此，避免走回头路是个良策。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1830146506 [b]各种支线任务丰富你的旅程：[/b] 《Glo phlox》其实是非线性的，玩家可以在多条支路上选择不同的前进方向。当然，某些支路的终点是条死路，玩家还需走回头路。某些支路四通八达，又能分出好多条小支路，有的通往存档点，有的能升级技能和装备，还有的能遇到世界中的NPC。说到NPC，不得不提一下他们为玩家提供了各种支线任务，例如：请你送一个问候或包裹给某人等。完成任务后，还能解锁丰富的奖励和推进剧情。 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1830146910 [b]强大的Boss创造诱人的挑战：[/b] 《Glo phlox》中的Boss隐藏在六大世界里，每个世界对应一个Boss。想要发现它们并不简单，还需披荆斩棘，连闯几个关卡。想要战胜它们更非一件易事，其子弹地狱般的攻击使你几乎没有落脚点，唯一的方法就是多来几次，摸透其攻击“伎俩”后，运用各种强力箭矢以及你的德鲁伊技能，配合打出一套完美的攻击，将Boss速速解决。最后提醒一句，任何时候别忘了去指定地点存档哦～ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1830146814 [b]各种趣味小谜题遍布世界：[/b] 觉得杀怪跑图没意思？各种小谜题满足你！例如：推箱子开电闸、射击机关开启跳台、寻找各种颜色的钥匙开启相对应的门等。说到推箱子，可能有玩家会质疑：“这都9102年了，还在推箱子，能不能拿点心意出来？”但是你别小看这“推箱子”，它结合了“水管谜题”元素，大大增加了其趣味性和可玩性。成功破解谜题后，心中还能有些许自豪感，真可谓“不亦乐乎”！ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1830146981 [b]活泼而又生动的音效：[/b] 视觉与听觉的相互邂逅，能完美地营造游戏的代入感。《Glo phlox》在音效处理上很有一套，无论是丛林里的蝉鸣狼嚎，还是地下世界里的水流潺潺声，亦或是各种怪物Boss发动攻击时的音效都刻画得活泼而又生动，似乎一个栩栩如生的幻想世界尽在眼前。 [h1]在此做一个小总结：[/h1] [b]闪亮的优点：[/b] [i]探索丰富和幻想手绘世界+ 各种支线任务丰富你的旅程+ 强大的Boss创造诱人的挑战+ 各种趣味小谜题遍布世界+ 活泼而又生动的音效+[/i] [b]不足或缺点：[/b] [i]离开某地回来后怪物会立刻刷新，没有喘息时间- 为了获取各种能力，你需要浪费时间地来回奔波-[/i] [h1]推荐分：（8/10）[/h1]

played for an hour straight, felt like 10 mins. Challenging yet fun nice mix of both

Played the game for an hour, loved the art style and game play, definitely recommend using a controller both ps4 and xbox controllers work smoothly with this game. It does get challenging at times but is definitely worth playing. for an indie game it is extremely well done!

This game runs quite smoothly, the character handling is great and a lot of fun. The artwork for the character is so vibrant and the colour choices for the game are really nice. I've only played a short while into the game but its fun and i'm currently trying to defeat the first boss which is difficult but not too much as to force a rage quit. I think the game would be best played on a controller because the controls are a bit uncertain for a mouse and keyboard. Oh and the abilities are really fun to use!!

Glo Phox is what I like to call, an ‘itch-scratcher’, the type of game that excels at ‘scratching an itch’ for a particular type of game. Itch scratchers aren’t necessarily the best at what they do, but will satisfy nonetheless. If you liked Hyper Light Drifter, and want something akin to that, this will scratch some of that itch, though it has more of a focus on ‘bullet hell’ style combat, and It’s significantly shorter than Hyper Light Drifter. My Hyper Light Drifter playthrough nearly reached 30 hours after hunting some achievements. Glo Phox only took 6 hours, and a significant portion of those 6 hours was wasted on a LOT of backtracking, combing through the world ‘trial-and-erroring’ to try and figure out how to progress. While I’d generally say it’s ‘a little rough around the edges’, it was mostly fun. The only major issue I have is that it fails quite badly in certain areas of communication, for example [spoiler] the game gives you two types of explosives, a bomb, and bomb arrows. Each explosive only explodes one type of stone block, while it’s clear that the bomb is intended to explode blocks when you get it, after getting the bomb arrows and attempting to use them to explode the same blocks the bomb blew up, I figured they couldn’t be used to explode the stone blocks. Later, I ran into a different coloured stone block, and attempted to blow them up with the bomb, to no avail. As it turns out, the bomb arrows had to be used to blow those other coloured stone blocks up. This is something you have to find out with experience. [/spoiler] or [spoiler] in certain rooms there exists a ‘sign’ of sorts, that visibly reacts to being shot, but doesn’t explain what shooting it does. What these sings do, evidently is open doors, but only temporarily, while the sign is spinning from being shot, the door in the same room will be open, so you have to use an ability to set a teleportation point to the door, then go to the sign, shoot it, teleport to the door, and quickly go through. However, to ensure that you can’t shoot the sign and get through the door without using the teleportation ability, the signs are so far away from the doors that you can’t see the doors open when you shoot the signs. And the game shows it has the ability to move the camera away from the player to communicate these things during other parts of the game, but just doesn’t do it in this instance, leading to you having to make the connection that these signs are only in rooms with doors that can’t seem to be opened any other way yourself. [/spoiler]. All that being said, if you want something that’ll scratch the itch Hyper Light Drifter left you, with more of a bullet hell focus, this’ll be a good few fun hours of just that.

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Pretty good twin-stick metroidvania. There were a few bugs but nothing to keep me from finishing it.

This is an amazing indie twin stick shooter with a dark-souls esque story filled with mystery and intrigue. I hope we get a sequel where we see more of Cordette and Angelo.

Es un juego con un pixelart hermoso, y muy bien usada la paleta de colores. La historia no es muy profunda, pero es entretenida, y te motiva a seguir al personaje principal. Me pareció que cada escenario estaba bien distinguido y si bien se reciclaban enemigos o variaba el ataque, o se mezclaban con otros enemigos, lo que lo hacía entretenido. En hard el juego NO ES DIFICIL, por el contrario, los bosses son muy fáciles. Por suerte no lo hace aburrido, y menos desafiante. Otro punto fuerte es el aspecto metroidvenia, motivando al jugador a recorrer varias veces la totalidad del mapa para poder acceder a nuevas partes que antes no se podían. Aspectos negativos, tiene muchos bugs que arruinan la experiencia del juego, incluso llegando a confundirte. Podes estar trabado en un escenario porque el bug genera que el juego comunique mal y rompa sus propias reglas. Por otro lado, hay un sistema para abrir puertas que es poco claro, el juego no te indica bien como hacer y también podes estar un buen par de horas hasta darte cuenta, habiendo recorrido el mapa varias veces hasta que aprendes de casualidad. Se le puede además criticar que no hay fast travel. Más allá de eso, vale la pena, se nota mucho la influencia del Hyper Light Drifter y eso esta bueno.