Jotun: Valhalla Edition

[b]Sweet little game[/b] full of lore of the North. Loved the art, the lore and especially the animations. The walking bit was a bit boring at times and some fight were a bit junky but overall would recommend. I loved the [spoiler]Fire Jotun Fight.[/spoiler]

Sauvegarde supprimé toute seul du jour au lendemain

Art direction + fantastic sound design, story, and voice acting, does not transfer into good gameplay. I was enjoying this game all the way until Brokkr's Forge fight against Fe reminded me of every issue with the game. The camera being way too zoomed in and not centered around the character, the hitboxes being a bit wonky, and the attack animation holding you still and forcing you to "stop the inertia of the axe" (read: standing still after the attack is done before you can move again) makes for a game where sometimes you need to deal with enemy overload from all directions and reacting to try and dash attacks (which you cant always do because your dash is of a comically small distance and you cant do it immediately afterwards again) becomes an insanely frustrating experience as you can't always do all of them at once. The issue is beyond the game being a Titan-souls inspired boss rush (better game, by the way) and more about the controls and "weight" forcing your character to be unresponsive when you REALLY don't want her to be unresponsive. For as much ♥♥♥♥ as I'm giving the game on the base of the controls fighting you harder than the bosses, the bosses themselves have a pretty simplified and barebones AI of performing 1 task at a time almost like following a script. You won't see the bosses "react" to you, more like they just do one thing at a time in a seemingly random pattern and you attack them whenever you can in the meanwhile. If the controls weren't as annoying and "fat" to use I'd argue the bosses would be a breeze to predict and pick away at their HP. A game is "good hard" when it forces you to think in or outside the box to win, it's "bad hard" when it feels like all the game does is force you to "hit, dodge, hit, dodge, hit, dodge" for as much HP as they have. This game is bad hard on top of the control issues previously mentioned.

Wunderbarer Grafikstil, Anspruchsvoll aber leicht zu lernen. Es hat Spaß gemacht und sollte für den Preis bei jedem Souls oder Rouge - Like Fan auf die Wunschliste gehören. Ich bin tatsächlich kein Fan dieser Spieler, und hab es trotzdem durchgespielt. Also Einmal! :-) Also vielleicht auch was für Anfänger in dem Genre. Aber wenn ich schon Spaß daran hatte, wird es auch jeder haben dem solche Spiele ansich ansprechen. Kampfsystem ist einfach zu lernen aber Anspruchsvoll, Gutes ausweichen und Reaktionen sind Pflicht. Man sollte wissen, es beschränkt sich auf den Kampf gegen mehrere Anspruchsvolle Endgegner. Es existieren keine Mobs.

Recomprando para ter na biblioteca. Game 6/10

El juego es precioso a nivel visual, pero bastante aburrido. Lo he dejado después de vencer a tres jefes porque el juego no tiene nada de acción. Básicamente es mover a un vikingo recorriendo por un escenario hasta que llegas a un boss con una cantidad ingente de vida. El movimiento del prota es bastante lento y tosco, y los dos golpes que tiene no son nada ágiles lo que hace que enfrentarte a los bosses sea muy aburrido. Aun así, animo a la gente que lo pruebe y juzgue por sí mismo.

Combat feels terrible. Doesn't teach basic mechanics. No english audio. Stopped playing after 15 mins on two separate occasions.