Labyrinth Of The Demon King

This was an overall solid little game that filled a short King's Field style niche for my little heart and was worth what I paid for it. The horrors elements were not too scary, and the combat was very simple, but fun. You get a decent variety of items and can even upgrade them. The bosses might be a bit too simple though, I didn't struggle with a single one. The one skeleton enemy constantly got me though and also holy Hell they are incredibly loud. Also dying seems to have no consequences I noticed, you even get fully healed back up. There is a setting to make it so you have to reload instead of just respawning at your last save point. The "you died" screen is also really cool. REVIVE REVIVE Story is pretty straight forward. There's a demon king, he stabbed your master, go stab him back. There's a few other characters as well like a merchant and whatnot. You gotta go to a few different towers the demon king controls to get to him, all with their own puzzles that are mostly easy to complete or bruteforce if you aren't a heavy puzzle oriented player. This is where I do have one major complaint. Due to the nature of the very muted color palette and style of graphics, navigating some areas is very difficult and the map is just a tiny bit off of being perfect. I wish it showed a dot of you in the path, or that was at least a setting. Also the colors of the game made a few segments I'd otherwise understand more difficult as the colors didn't match the descriptions of things. Overall though I only had to lookup a walkthrough like three times. The soundtrack is really good, and I love how the cutscenes of new dangerous beings seem to be styled like Silent Hill 4 The Room ghost cutscenes. That was really good. For the soundtrack there's one later piece that was really, really cool and upped the tension a ton. Game runs fantastically overall, but I did boot it up on my 512 GB LCD Steam Deck to see if it runs well there too, and it does. Pretty much locked 60 fps with solid battery life. Also this game feels really good on controller, thought to point that out because sometimes games like this do not feel good on controller. If you're an achievement hunter, it's very easy to get all achievements. Most of them can be done on one run of the game, but if you wanna play more after you finish those then the added new game plus feature is a ton of fun too. Even adds some extra treats and whatnot.