Jotun: Valhalla Edition

pretty bad

A jogabilidade é uma merda e não tem um pingo de imersão. Conquista o carisma por se basear na mitologia nórdica e ser um boss rush contra jotuns, mas é uma merda completa ter que esperar mil anos para carregar um golpe simples de machado, haver muita poluição na tela e a personagem se movimentar igual uma lesma, fora o enquadramento das arenas, o qual muitas vezes perco meu personagem de vista e mal vejo quando tomo algum dano. Jogo hediondo, ganha apenas pelos gráficos, mas é não há o menor divertimento no estresse que passa nele.

Desde Titan Souls no había tenido una experiencia así. Juegazo de jefazos uno tras otro, visualmente impactante y con un combate algo alejado del resto (más lento y sin armas a distancia, aquí los hachazos en la cara del enemigo). Además las perlitas de mitología nórdica se agradecen porque tampoco se han explotado demasiado. Para acabar, recomendado al 100% y si lo pillas en rebaja es casi casi un regalo.

The gameplay is just alright. Very basic light attack, heavy attack, roll controls. The roll feels kind of clunky and unresponsive without the speed boost, like a max weight roll in a Souls game, and I think the heavy attack should be a few frames faster. I wish that the light attack had a 3 hit combo instead of just stopping at 2, or maybe allowed you to chain the light attack into a heavy finisher with some precise timing or something. 2 light attacks at a time just don't seem adequate, for lack of a better explanation. Some of the boss fights are kind of lame and the achievements definitely seem padded (beat every boss without taking damage, beat every boss in under a minute, etc etc) but ultimately it was alright. Sometimes frustrating and a lot of backtracking if you missed something in an area, which you are inclined to get because it's the only way to receive or upgrade your god powers, so if you miss anything then it's a bit of a pain to go all the way back with such low movement speed pre-speed boost god power. They show you the secrets that you missed in the main zone's plaza maps at least which is convenient, so at least you always know where to find what you missed. The environment, however, is beautiful. I really love the artistic approach they took here with all the Norse mythology and the way some of the puzzles unfold. I found myself stopping just to take screenshots on nearly every open-world zone because of how incredible and cinematic it all looked. The devs put in a lot of effort to make it a very pretty game on many levels, and I appreciate that a lot. Even the "ugly" bosses are nice to look at just because of how fluid and clean the animation was. I also really liked the authenticity of having the narration be in Icelandic with English subtitles, to really give you that extra bit of immersion. The soundtrack for every zone was also very fitting as well, really helping push the narrative for that specific area. Walking across the ice lake with that music is the most genuinely unsettling thing I've experienced in a game in a LONG time. All in all, a very pretty game aesthetically, but an average game. I had enough fun to justify the play time and the artwork is gorgeous, but I don't think it's worth full price in the current year. You're not missing much by not playing it but if you do want to give it a shot, get it on sale. If any of the devs read this, please, PLEASE fix the hit boxes on Odin's spears. They do not line up at all. Just one more patch. I get that it's supposed to be a challenging game, but the player should be fighting against the in-game enemies and bosses, not the game mechanics themselves.

A short game, but definitively worth playing. Soundtrack and visuals are breath-taking.

Un entretenido indie que mezcla segmentos de exploracion y puzzles con combates contra gigantescos jefes, todo acompañado de una buena banda sonora y arte. Aunque los segmentos de exploracion pueden ser un poco tediosos debido a que somos relativamente lentos en un escenario grande y ademas no hay muchos puntos de referencia para recordar zonas.

La storia sulla mitologia norrena è interessante e la grafica è carina, ma il gameplay è tremendo e il combat system veramente legnoso. Essere così lenti, mentre si combatte non è il modo giusto per aumentare la difficoltà