INAYAH - Life after Gods

I wasn't convinced at first but then, something clicked and I enjoyed it. BAD The biggest flaw is that there are way too few Fast Travel points for a map this huge and for a game that requires this many backtracking. Some traversal upgrades (most notably the double-jump and the air dash) must be equipped like the charms in Hollow Knight instead of being permanent upgrades. This is especially annoying because they are required to progress. The completion percentage shown on the map for each area doesn't seem to be reliable. Having the completion percentage is nice but having a tool to find the collectibles would be better because then, the player wouldn't need to check every wall and every ceiling for secret paths. GOOD There's a LOT of QoL features. Good story and characters. Impressive visuals. Deep battle system. Huge attention to details. For instance, there are alternate lines when an NPC gives you a task that you've already done. There is a "custom" difficulty setting where you can choose which aspects of the game will be easy, normal or difficult.

Although I had some initial gripes about the game, such as the weapon switching mechanic, which was annoying and felt clunky when starting out, and the constant back and forth until I figured out which route and weapon would let me advance further into the map, the game itself was still an enjoyable experience. Nevertheless, be prepared for an annoying few hours of map exploration when playing for the first time.

If there was an option to be somewhere between recommend and not recommend, I would take that for this game. It's a 6.5/10 or 7/10 at best since there are some glaring issues. The good part about this game is that once it gets going and you get to a certain point in mid game, the game feels decent, enemy variety is good, art is nice, exploration can be somewhat interesting with the right setup and most bosses are very good with the few exceptions being extremely bad. Combat, with blades only, feels very satisfying, they are agile and precise, you can weave in jump attacks, pogos, standard attacks and abilities that feel good to use. The skill tree is very good if you are any kind of RPG fan, it lets you stylize your own build as well as locking you out of other potential options so you cannot just overlevel one single thing and use only that, which rewards comboing and planning in advance, there's also a possibility with it to reach 65% damage reduction + 30% from a certain equippable item which then provides a total of 95% damage reduction making you kind of immune to damage, not sure if that's intended, but some part of the game were only bearable because of it, since there are a couple of parts that are just not fun at all to explore or do. The bad part is that you're supposed to use 3 weapons for combat, and platforming. You end up using only 1 weapon since the other 2 are absolute trash. Blades felt like the only viable weapon and were extremely fun to use, once i found the implant to make the blade jump attack reach 150% further upwards which basically gave me a third jump, it felt great to get around the map, before that? absolutely garbage. Fists provide a small dash in a direction which feels incredibly janky since it is quite a small distance as well as you start immediately falling after it at full speed not allowing you to switch to different weapons and continue platforming at certain moments. Both other weapons when you jump or use their ability they have that small floating delay once you reach the maximum height, as they should, allowing you to swap to a different weapon and continue platforming. Flail has an instant teleport to certain magnetic spots but it feels janky. Blade just has an extra small jump compared to that and somehow that felt the best out of the three. In combat, fists make you stand in place, why? Blades have you moving, its nice, feels good to combo around with them. Flail is slow but hits hard which is never worth it since bosses are well designed and they wont let you just swing a weapon for 3 seconds. Some quests are weird, some interactions are weird, the writing is mediocre, the main character is insufferable, way too sassy for a main character that you have to listen to the entire game, most of the time i cringed and skipped dialog because its hard to listen to. Rongo is a bad character, Nyx is fine, Clio is fine, Jasper is a bit annoying and Hakim was great. The side characters were also pretty decent. Quests do way too much backtracking for the lack fast travel, either we need more fast travel spots or we need less backtracking, this was extremely tedious considering the awkward platforming caused by the three weapons and the rewards for them were lackluster considering the pain. The choose your weapon start is a decent idea, reminds me of blasphemous 2, terribly executed however since no matter which weapon you choose first, you have to head to the same 2 locations, which means they had to design the maps with that in mind which then ended up with weird looking zones at the beginning as well as some weapons feeling terrible if you take them first. in Blasphemous 2, whichever weapon you take, life is good, here, only 1 weapon is good, might as well not make it a choice, declutter the map and make the zones more fun and memorable because right now, 1st area is like 50% of the game and most of it is just so easy to forget, which makes backtracking even harder since you can't remember where anything is and its already bad enough considering the bad feeling of platforming with 2 of the weapons. Difficulty settings differ too much, easy gets a free jump? normal is just normal, hard makes some bosses a sponge, feels incredibly boring and pointless. Achievements are poorly designed, could remove 40 of them and you'd be fine, could remove the Hard difficulty requirement from the "kill the bosses in a certain way" achievements and they could be fine, but like this? just tedious Choices should also just be good and evil, extortion choices were just weird, they should've just been mixed in with the evil choices and then had to choose only between helping due to being a good person or helping due to wanting to use the person you're helping through extortion, having evil as a third choice just seemed weird. Insulting people for the fun of it especially with a main character as insufferable as this one was actually not even enjoyable. Overall, I would still like this game to succeed, the game itself shows promise and it had some interesting parts, i like 2D metroidvanias, i want more of them, if you can simply stay away from a few of these glaring issues, the next game might be top tier.

Very nice game. In my opinion, you should increase the difficulty so you can enjoy it. I really liked the story and the background music.

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Gameplay is clunky and rudimentary, story is bland, voice acting is mid, and the maps are a mess. wish i could get a refund on this one

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