Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest

good game :)

Really interesting visuals and it is not afraid to be weird at all which I respect. However there are pretty large flaws. Definitely feels like it needs more time in the oven. Introduces way too much too quickly, and the combat gauntlets are just way too chaotic. Feels like I'm playing endgame content on the first level. Needed more iterating through actual playtests. This is not a criticism on the difficulty, but the combat/enemy/encounter design and onboarding. Silksong is difficult but intentional whereas this game is feels very messy and thrown together. Less is more. Edit: I was seeing perf issues but it was actually my controller causing it.

Fantastic 2d action game, possibly one of the best ever made, up there with Odin Sphere. A *must* play for fans of character action.

Amazing game that does so much right with its Mechanics that it is honestly very crazy that is made by one dude. Games like this feel more like a team effort. Enemy design is probably my favorite thing about it, they are very chess-like, and they fill their own niches and cover each other’s weakness to take you down. Thank you for making this game dawg. This is genuinely one of my favorite games that I ever played.

If you like 2D, tough as nails games that are combo based, then look no further... this might be your new favorite game. I love how you get the entire moveset as soon as you start the game and you can access it at anytime in the menu (although it can be a little bit hard to read). This is not to say that you start with everything that the game has to offer though, because there is a charm system very similar to the one in Hollow Knight as well as weapons you can find in the levels. As for gameplay, everything is quite smooth and responsive for the most part and each level is sorta like a tiny Metroidvania map, but you will be finding keys instead of traversal upgrades. It starts off rather light but after only a few levels, the amount of enemies you fight at a time gets crazy. It will take some getting used to and after just finishing Act 1, some of those fights were super challenging and at times, claustrophobic. It forces you to be on your toes and find which enemies are the biggest pain in the ass to focus on killing first. I really like how you get healing grenades that are charged up by striking enemies, and you have to apply them to enemies and keep hitting them to reap (you see what I did there?) the benefits. You basically have to play aggressively to win, and that is perfect for a guy like me. The bosses are all balls to the wall hard and it is ultra satisfying to defeat them after the 20th attempt. There is a boss rush available as well, so after you beat the game, you can focus on those encounters if you like. To me, they are the highlight of the game and I hope the devs next project is something like Furi where it is only bosses. If you are into DMC, Hollow Knight, or Slave Zero X, you really should do yourself a favor and check this game out. I paid full price at around $11 USD and I feel like I ripped off the dev because of how much detail is in every aspect of the game.

Not for the faint of heart, even when completing on the normal difficulty. The game kinda plays like a 2D Devil May Cry with the emphasis on combos and the style-gauge. You need to have some mastery of how your different attack sequences move you around to survive even the weak enemy mobs. The healing mechanic is very unique; it requires you to attack the enemy successfully during a short window after hitting them with a healbomb. The amount you heal is proportional to how many hits you can land during this window. If you can't comfortably land attacks on the enemies in general, you won't be able to effectively heal yourself. The story (tale of the afterlife) also seems pretty interesting, and the music is very nice.