JUMP KING QUEST

どれだけ落とされても諦めるな なぁに簡単だ。まず肩の力を抜いて深呼吸すれば 何事もうまくいく。 いつか見える時が来る。 そんな人生のようなゲームでした。 近道はできないもんですよ。

This is a tough not recommended review for me. The game is really charming and has some unique ideas and at times, even very fun combat. I think it boils down to suffering from liking the smell of your own farts syndrome. Any time you reach a satisfying encounter with a boss or a fun designed area with enemies you'll be met with the obvious literal pitfalls that have you repeat a zone. These zones aren't super long and you might fall to the bottom and need to restart. It's all in the design of the game. The issue I think is you gain no methods to alleviate any of this tedium you're absolutely beaten with the whole game. It's funny sometimes to fall down after a jump and plop, but you'll naturally do this tons of times. The even bigger issue with all of this is it stops being fun after you do it for half the game. It'd be cool to unlock a double jump, or have some challenge you can complete to give you more tools. That never happens. I've reached what I think is the second half of the game and the water areas have a pseudo double jump which is neat. But for every improvement the game could have with something like proper fast travel (a type of fast travel exists but it mostly sucks), maybe a trade half your hotdog to make a "checkpoint" or somewhere you can bounce back to, or even have more fun enemy encounters, you'll instead be met with tedium and obfuscation. This is what I mean by liking the smell of your own farts. These things could have definitely been implemented and even be made into boss fight rewards or challenge rewards to help improve the flow of the game. Instead, you've basically got all of the tools for the whole game within the first 1-2 hours that you'll be using for the rest of the game. Then you just pump stats and look for obscure items sometimes for npcs. The inspiration from dark souls is clear there. With the main focus of the game being multiplayer (which you won't utilize unless you're specifically playing with friends) and they clearly hoped the game would be much more popular as they revamped their roadmap and intentions with the game and made it smaller as it never really took off. I can't help but think if they were able to get over the smell of their own farts that they'd have a much bigger and more successful game that traded some of the GIT GUD friction with fun unlocks and paced out tools that made the game feel like it's evolving instead of you dredging almost quite literally through the same mud for its entirety.

終於破關了!超好玩，最後的幻影塔反倒很簡單。對我來說，最難的反倒是支線XD，這鐵匠真的很會搞事，尤其是老城中間那座，煩人弓箭手就算了，扒手重生速度也太快了吧，要不是靈氣太多，他還不讓我敲= =。其次是惡魔男爵，那個該死的懸捱和王，重來次數比我最後三王加起來的多....，我是ea剛出時買的，但那時候沒打惡魔男爵，所以重完跑來挑戰一下，結果意外噴第三塊煤，傻眼!那個鐵匠在下面竟還跟我說不再那群手裡。下次解道第二個煤就夠了，反正星級也要靠賽，正常通關不一定會滿2星，更何況3星~ 新出的遠程武器對爬塔困難的人真是棒，可以路上那些煩人的小怪，尤其是弓箭手，前期可以推薦鞭子，而且他需要的屬性，中後期一些好用的近戰武器和步槍，也大致相同。多人系統也很有趣....的，總之比ea剛出的時候簡單不少,喜歡2d橫向卷軸打怪，有點自虐XD，非常推薦喔!!

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下水道拼尽全力跳半个小时被boss一脚踢飞然后被小怪一脚踢飞直接重跳（

I had low expectations going in, but this is possibly one of my new favorite games. Its crazy how well it balances fun and frustration