Guardian of Lore

Muito boa a arte, esquema de usar magia. O ponto principal é: A jogabilidade e a arte do personagem, parece que não combinaram muito bem, faltou carisma no personagem principal e a mecânica, apesar de ser boa (mas simples), faz o jogo ficar estranho (Até agora).

1/10 Экшн-платформе, который привлек визуалом и оттолкнул всем остальным. Скучные враги, примитивная боевка, унылые локации и мувмент.

This is an action platformer with some puzzle elements. It's not a traditional metroidvania, because you don't have a contiguous map; however, there are progression elements, and certain items are impossible to reach without revisiting old areas with new abilities. The game is primarily level-based. Each level is a story book that takes place over several screens. Depending on your actions, you can be going through different screens, in a unique take on a choose-your-own -adventure books. Each book contains a story from a different Native culture of Latin America, and your objective is to read the legend ahead of time, and then go through the book, making sure the story does not get re-written and forgotten. Just beating each book's boss does not guarantee a happy ending, but the game does provide hints, and you can run through each book multiple times. Your abilities come in the form of spells- you enter a “casting stance”, and then you need to input a sequence of buttons for each spell. Spells cost Lore to cast, which is your universal currency in the game- you use it to cast spells, buy/sell items, upgrade your spells and repair your equipment. The game's art is gorgeous, and the music is quite nice and fits the tone of each story. The Ideas here are great; The execution is more of a mixed bag. The most obvious is the jump. Your character's jump height and length depends on how long you hold down the jump button. This isn't a bad thing, but it definitely takes some getting used to, and can make the platforming feel floaty and imprecise. The combat is pretty rudimentary, but the enemy's attacks cause knockback, so that's another thing to keep in mind. There can be occasional glitches where the character performs weird jumps halfway across the level; I didn't find these to be much of an issue, though. Difficulty is fair, and some of the late-game equipment is pretty overpowered, which gives the player something to play towards. There are also achievwments for beating bosses with no damage and passing an entire level without dying, so if you want extra challenge content, it's there for some replayability. Overall, the game leaves me with mixed impressions. I wouldn't play this for the platforming, or combat. But the unique storytelling and exploration of the various versions of stories makes this game unique enough to be be worth a purchase.