
Descend from the heavens and slay the evil spirits plaguing Japan in INARI, a college project made by students at Columbia College of Chicago. Slice your way through wicked yokai as you run across rooftops and make your way to the leader of the demonic parade.
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played exclusively on steamdeck. its gr8. gj billy x rov . cant wait for sequel fu tain.
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"INARI" is a student project from Columbia College in Chicago, which is apparently an educational institution that teaches the students wrong, on purpose. If I was a game development trainer, I guess one of the first things I'd teach students is that 2D gaming became obsolete in the mid 1990's when consumer 3D graphics cards like the Voodoo3 and ATI Rage became mainstream. So, we have a badly made 2D side scroller in the 3D era of gaming, preparing the students for absolutely nothing related to modern, professional game development. What do you do in the game? You slash things, you run around and do platformer stuff... there's little to no narrative and little to no interest for gamers, which is reflected in the way this student project failed to attract any significant interest from gamers. The 2D graphics were a major reason for this failing. Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
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INARI is a student hack&slash game about a fox beating up cats. Got through story mode and took the train in under an hour before getting bored. There's not much to this game. You're an inari and you go through 2d Japanese sets slashing your way through neko, kappa, and more. There are a handful of bosses around. And there are a ton of achievements. Honestly wish there was more, like a storyline to go with the mindless hacking and slashing. Or more music. I did enjoy what I played, though. And it's Freeeeee..... Do I recommend INARI? If you're bored and like beating up yokai
"No stories, purely for the scenes but this game was very indulging" a review from a friend who misunderstood which Inari game I was playing loll but it is true xD casual game to pass time
yoooo saw an ad for this game around campus it was a fun game keep it up
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Динамичный 2D-платформер с элементами экшена, где игроки сражаются с ёкаями в роли небесного кицунэ. Плюсы: Стильная боевая система — множество комбо-атак и зрелищных ударов; Яркий визуальный стиль — красочный 2D-мир и стильная графика; Дополнительный режим — «Поезд Демонов» с уникальными задачами. Минусы: Повторяемость врагов — основные противники не отличаются разнообразием; Суровая сложность — стандартный режим может быть слишком жёстким; Однотипные уровни — структура уровней может быть однообразной. Итог: понравится любителям динамичных 2D-платформеров и экшен-игр. Стильная боевая система и яркая графика делают игру увлекательной, несмотря на возможные недостатки в разнообразии уровней и врагов.
INARI is a game that's easy to pick up, doesn't overstay its welcome, and has really enjoyable gameplay. Zooming around as a ninja was fun, especially after maxing out my upgrades. I've only played through the story mode so far, which was light on the actual story in-game. That's okay though, since the game both doesn't really need one and does a good job of telling it just through what's going on in the environment (village is burning and being destroyed, evil spirits are running around). There's another game mode to check out as well, which looks like it might be the more in-depth one (as I can see items and stuff that aren't in the story mode in some of the screenshots). A fun game, and for an unbeatable price!
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