Lucah: Born of a Dream

Je recommande surtout pour le gameplay sympa, le style visuel particulier (généralement dans le bon sens, parfois trop exagéré à mon goût) et l'ost. L'histoire fait très vague pour être vague et il semblerait qu'un ng+ soit nécessaire pour avoir davantage de scènes vagues. Après c'est pas non plus incompréhensible avec une première partie, mais ce qui est présenté durant celle-ci ne donne pas particulièrement envie de faire une nouvelle partie+, que ce soit pour maintenant ou plus tard.

Frustrated beyond belief with this game I really wanna play it but the controls do not function on my Xbox One controller Every button works EXCEPT moving D-Pad doesn't function, Left Stick doesn't work, Right Stick does nothing either I've scoured the forums, I've looked at the Itch IO page, NOTHING can help me I'm refunding, I'm sorry

> High concept scribbles ## Why - Genuinely unique art style that somehow works - Combat is pretty engaging/complex - If you enjoy having absolutely no idea what's going on ## Why Not - You don't like the art-style - You hate having to do multiple (short) playthroughs for all the content ## Impressions I bought this a while ago after being drawn in by the raw, sketchy art-style then forgot about it for a while. I had some reservations about how good the actual gameply would be since enemies being collections of abstract art doesn't really lend itself to visual clarity, but I'm happy to report other than some minor clipping issues the combat is really fun. I guess I'd describe the combat as fast souls-like; you have your health/magic/stamina bars (hitting enemies replenishes magic), a dodge roll with i-frames and even a parry. Despite the faster pace stamina management matters more than something like Elden Ring, you can only get a few light attacks or a single heavy while still having stamina for a dodge. You can get Virtues (perks) which alleviate this like fully regenerating your stamina on a perfect dodge or reducing stamina use at full health, but you'll miss out on a variety of other useful Virtues to use them. You can also build your own playstyle in a way with the Mantra system (kinda like stances); you can have two active at a time and they change the way your basic attacks work, adding or reducing range/speed/power/crit or applying some special effect. These are also kind of a 'choose your own difficulty' system, especially the one you get right after starting NG+ which rapidly fires multiple shockwaves covering half the arena. And you'll be seeing NG+ if you want even the slightest clue what's happening, two big exposition dumps which give a lot of context are locked behind it. I don't mind this so much because it's a short game, but there's not really enough differences in NG+ gameplay to make it truly worthwhile. I guess that's why you get the OP Virtue, in case you just want to speedrun through for the alternative endings. Overall a very cool little game that's creative and artsy, plus it's regularly on sale for ~300yen. Definitely give it a try if the style looks interesting to you.

Chalk souls with some visual novel. Beat the game on challenge difficulty on a Macbook with touchpad. The combat feels so good.

i still don't get what the dream is, but it's still really cool

封面诈骗，我一直在期待世界上色之后的样子但是根本没有。 艺术风格挺独特的，凄厉的音效，逼仄的空间，还有谜语人的剧情搭配在一起，似乎都在暗示剧情演出上会给你来个大的，带来独立Cult Game的震撼体验。 但一直这么看下去太累了也太紧张了，坚持不到通关。

Was instantly sold on the style, but it was not at all intuitive how and when I should be using the different weapon types and combinations. It didn't really seem to make much difference in combat no matter what I chose. Combat itself wasn't much fun either.