Kingdom Shell

great Metrovania, very nice Visuals and Music. Gameplay and Progression is addicting, world is interesting. Double Jump and Mid Air Dash confirmed

构式深渊图，tm的即死地形杀，还有无视地形攻击的小怪；跳跳乐不仅有限时的，大多还是小平台，稍不留神就白跳，空中小怪一堆，碰到就掉下来重跳； 除了深渊图和跳跳乐，其他方面还是比较不错的，算是小精品类银恶（隐藏很多）

This game was a wonderful discovery with a couple sore spots but nothing that would deter me from playing it again. I do not know how they did it, but this game feels like a modern Quintet game (Developer of Soul Blazer). It really felt like playing Soul Blazer two, because you spend time in the world learning who the inhabitants are, help them with their troubles, and get upgrades when you finish their tasks. This game is another good example of how to make a solid metroidvania, that even has a couple surprises in store.

Kingdom Shell is a metroidvania about demon problems. Beat it and 100%ed achievements in 12.5 hours using a game controller. Difficulty is medium-hard. You'll probably die a few times. This is a pretty good, straight-of-the-road metroidvania. Traversing each area can be a puzzle, you wander the map looking for places to go, and you find upgrades/items that give you an Ahah! moment. Other reviews complain about the controls, but I never really had a problem. The monster battles were fair. The boss battles, while some can be hard, were also fair. I was intrigued by the world and different npcs, but where the game kinda lulls is in the story, itself - which felt like it was written by a highschooler. Lots of mysterious characters and intrigue, but very little to connect it all. By the time I beat it, I felt a bit of 'That's it?'. But if given the opportunity to play again and experience the over-all feel of the game, I probably would. Kingdom Shell's got character and spunk. Another blight on the game is the walking around. Some hallways take forever (looking at the dwarven area, specifically) and the main guy takes it at a light jog everywhere he goes. In hindsight, and mostly due to the loose story alongside having played a ton of metroidvanias, the plot of the game is a little forgettable. While I did beat it fully, I did it long enough ago that I can't remember half of it. I also keep calling Kingdom Shell 'Mortal Bloom'. And MortalBloom isn't even a game. It's a Founders beer. I do remember dwarves, and figures in robes, and a tree. And bunnies. So there's that. But yeah, if you just need something to play and like metroidvanias, you'd have nothing to lose playing this one. Most of it is better than half the metroidvanias out there. There's a lot to do, and figuring out the various puzzle-floors is fun.

This game is underrated. If you’re a fan of classic metroidvanias and beautifully crafted pixel art with cool parallax scrolling, give this one a go. Exploration is the focus here with masterfully crafted biome diversity. All the classic ability upgrades and gated areas that require backtracking. They included a magic system without falling into the trap of cluttered rpg inventory management. There’s optional mysterious side quest, collectibles and puzzles for people who want to engage with the game further. Cool boss fights that don’t waste your time like some other games in the genre. My main criticism would be that the opening biome is probably the weakest and doesn’t do a great job setting the overall tone of the game. It starts out as seeming like a dreamy fantasy game but later on delves deeper into the darker eldrtich horror castle realms. Overall, while the game doesn’t do anything particularly groundbreaking, that can be considered a positive for fans who just want a solid pixel art metroidvania.

还不错，比较常规的类银河代餐，没得玩的话可以玩一下，有官方中文比较不错，steam社区里也有全收集指南。16 7个小时能全成就全收集，整体可以靠自己打出90%的内容，剩下的需要依靠全地图来找东西，不然有些很难发现，有些支线也说的比较隐晦不好找。手感其实还不错但比较单调，二段跳和冲刺也比较后期才能拿到，有些boss比较难打需要技巧，基本上就是先躲再输出，输出窗口还是相对较多的，本来想找修改器，死活全网找不到能用的，但最后还是手打打过了每个boss。

小体量类银河城，整体中规中矩，像素画风，主角以及npc的脸画的很简约，但怪物设计都很精致，基本上没有换皮； 能力锁设计属于比较常见的类型； boss战不少，各有特色，难度不高，都能5次以内打过； 部分跳跳乐有难度，但都不长，过了一次就能开捷径，后面就不用再跑一遍，而且中期就能解锁保存点间传送； 角色机动性不高，前期只能翻滚，二段跳和空冲都在中后期，好在敌人没有碰撞体积和碰撞伤害（翻滚有无敌帧，空冲没有）； 死亡惩罚很低，不会回档，只是回到传送点并扣一点钱，身上的钱越少扣的也越少，但是游戏没有自动保存的，哪怕是你复活了也不会保存，玩家必须手动在保存点选择保存； 前期血瓶是一次性消耗品，并不能在保存点自动补充，只能在地图中拾取或是在商店购买，中期才能解锁保存点恢复，而且血瓶数量不多，直到通关也就能带三瓶； 提升角色血蓝上限的道具、提供被动效果的护符在都隐藏房里（部分护符在商店购买），减陷阱伤害和加防御的护符真的很好用； 解锁护符槽位的同时也会提升角色基础伤害，消耗的货币全都在支线获得； 角色的蓝槽会自动回复，多用法术对推图很有帮助，一共有四种法术，前三个都是主线给，第四个要打隐藏boss； 最后就是做成就的玩家要注意，有一个成就要求“不杀任何矮人”，虽然做起来不难（敌对矮人数量不多），但是很容易被忽略，等到玩家杀死矮人后才发现这个成就无法完成了。

I'm going to recommend the game. It's not bad by any means, but it really doesn't do anything special. There's a lot of good here for what looks like the Devs first game. It's a really good stepping stone game for a dev trying their hand at a Metriodvania. Mechanics are pretty solid, and the story they use is pretty good. World building is neat with some things sprinkled in that ups the story. There's some hit and miss mechanics in fighting. Some bad guys hurt when you touch them, some don't, and some hurt only sometimes when you touch them? It's kind of hard to follow who does touch damage and who doesn't. It's not a killer by any mean, but it feels sloppy. The real big issue is the ending. I don't know why but a lot of Indy Devs just down know how to end games, and this is a perfect example of that. When you get to the end section of the game, the game completely changes into a different game. The whole game has been a decent Meroidvania with some platforming thrown in, maybe once or twice its precision based(and that's only on areas you don't need to get to to beat it). But hen the whole end section is precision timed platforming mixed with sections where you have to hit an object to either move forward or up. All of that added with having to time it just right so you avoid obstacles that will kill you in two hits. It was just so violently different it ended up just ruining the game for me. I'd still recommend it. The Music and art were really cool and combat felt pretty good once you get into it.

Edited after finishing. Pros: art, music, and atmosphere are amazing. intriguing witch-queen-king story. great level design. great world building. works fantastically on my very underpowered laptop running lubuntu linux when set to 3x size i've heard the developers are very responsive to feedback which is always appreciated. Cons: platforming feels slippery making the intensive platforming sections frustrating (i'm looking at you top city gargoyle room, castle chess piece room, and most of all the deep), an upgrade to treat lava like sewer water instead of insta-death would have been veeeeeery nice. wish movement upgrades came earlier. at 11 hours in I still don't have air dash. story fell off at the very end. Overall Worth It? Heck yeah! This game is tons of fun, even with the frustrating parts. If character control felt laser precise and they could build in a way to feel increasingly powerful instead of always feeling barely equipped to deal with the next challenge, then this game would be top tier, Kudos to the team behind this, you've done something impressive.

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