Master Key

打完了......真的不想再玩了，已力竭已吐血已崩溃已累晕已阵亡已无力已投降。 黑白2d塞尔达，收集五把钥匙打最终神庙，游戏里无任何指引和文字，人也不会讲话，任务解密理解全靠图标，这诞生一个悲伤的问题，我往往无法理解，游玩过程非常容易卡关，中间卡了n多次，不知道要去哪，不知道要干什么。好萌的外表，好难玩😓😢。最后boss也是血牛没忍住开简单模式了，现在有点后悔如果一开始就开简单模式应该会好一些。游戏内容太丰富到处都是解密和隐藏物品。喜欢静下心探索and有一定2d塞尔达经验来玩比较合适，真心建议卡关到一定地步直接搜个流程视频对着玩 战斗挺一般，最后箱子不停召唤电水母把我气晕，后期小怪人均有盾就我没有，裸身硬打，好在后面我也变成血牛了。 技能道具需要买，经常在一个犄角旮旯有个商店，东西卖挺贵，完全不知道设置钱包上限的意义何在。面对商店里500的东西，上限250的钱包从嘴角流出泪水

一言でいうとちょうどいいゼルダライク。 難易度・謎解き・ボリュームともにちょうどいい位。 あと、おまけのイラストトジックも充実。 値段以上には楽しめる良作。

Exploration and discovery in this game is very good. The dev did a lot with the art with only 2 colors. The game can be a bit plodding when you don't know where you're going, but overall it is very fun. The performance in the snowfall area could be improved.

This game is definitely not a joy to play on a big screen. In this case smaller is better, and would probably give a much better experience on a steamdeck or similar. I get the 2 color artstyle, but I really didn't like it no matter what colorpalette I tried. There were too little detail for it to be enjoyable. I also had a huge issue with the fact that you get stunned for a long while when getting hit. Will not give this game a negative review as it's good for what it tries to be, although it wasn't for me at all

[h1]Several obvious flaws knock this game down.[/h1] Master Key has a concept so simple, you'd think it'd execute on it flawlessly. A simple Zeld' em' up with a very low amount of colors. (Two.) But due to some serious flaws, the flow of the game frequently halts. [hr][/hr] [list] [*]Minor Foible: The game defaults to release to swing instead of press to swing, I have no idea why the designer felt the need to go against 40+ years of game design. Platform characters did not jump when you released the button, so why reverse this? [*]You have knockback. Your opponents do not, except when required of their design. This is design that dates back to Hydlide, and was quickly remedied by games which followed. [*]You have multiple kinds of hitstun: Impact, hit, and respawn. Each of these locks you in a state which leaves you unable to react for [i]LONG ENOUGH.[/i] [*]World navigation is stretched and complicated for no discernible reason; if it was a text adventure, every grid square of every screen would have to be navigated manually. [*]Secrets are hidden and frequent, yet non-indicative. Where's the secret passage? Either guess or swing at all the walls. Could we not be spared even 8 pixels for a crack or other "off" indicator? [*]The world is aimless and your objective is vague at best in most instances. Sure, you're collecting the keys, but what for? [*]On the default difficulty setting, your key hits like an actual key, which in addition to the lack of knockback your opponents have (and your weapon's paltry range), means you're often getting boxed in and thus, exploding. [*]Discerning between surfaces is not easy due to a lack of contrast between them; meaning frequent trips into the drink may occur. This is annoying in the early game, while water remains a gated damaging obstacle. [*]Once you obtain the power of speed, you'll find very little incentive to actually use it, because it isn't actually that much faster, is useless around opponents, and (with speed active) your character turns with the fluid grace of a 1970s car, including a baffling windup and stop. [*]Most of the optional puzzles, and many progression puzzles unfortunately require you to know what color shirt the developer was wearing; solutions which require you to intuit exactly what the designer was thinking at the moment. [/list] There are [i]some[/i] positives. The chiptune music does the job quite well, communicating without words is laudable, and the fox is cute enough. Those do not make up for the problems this game has.

I want to like this game with it's cute aesthetic but the level design is severely lacking. I just finished the first dungeon and there are a looooot of annoying quirks in there, the biggest "wtf were they thinking" moment was while entering a room from the south and you need to hookshot (spoilers) your way through the room, from post to post. There is a timing puzzle in there as well, where spikes are slowly rotating around the room so you need to wait for a cycle to do the puzzle... And then finally, there's just one water-bound zora in the room that pops up and shoots pellets at you. Here's the problem: You have literally nowhere to move or hide, and the room cycles while off screen so you may enter the room and need to wait 3-7 seconds for the spikes to rotate away from you... and if the zora just happens to be in line of sight of you well guess what? You're getting shot, and then THAT shot is probably sending you back to the last screen because it knocked you back a bit. This is one of many "for the love of god, dev, WHY?" moments for me just leading up to the first dungeon boss... extremely annoying. While on the depressing topic of dogwater level design, I enter the boss room and it's a mole, the game gives a mini cutscene where you stand directly in front of the boss without moving, and then the boss throws two shots in a spread pattern - missing you entirely. Me, thinking, okay chief I got the memo, and when the mole pops up next I stand still so the mole can miss me with it's spread shot... except the bastard mole does the exact same attack animation... before throwing one single shot directly in to me. The feeling of betrayal is immense, and my faith in the dev has plummeted, don't do this kind of blatantly obvious demonstration of a boss pattern when it doesn't even matter. My time played is very misleading btw, due to a lot of afk time, it'll say something like 7 hours at time of review but this is more like 2 hours of play, and that play was very meandering because I had fun exploring the first town and smacking all the walls I could think to smack. tl;dr - charming game that baited my love for a sense of discovery and squashed my fun with many, back to back, consistly bad level design choices. I'll say more if I decide to come and play some more, which is likely. If you want games with a sense of discovery then play Ooo or Tunic or La-Mulana 2 or Outer Wilds, you're welcome.

Super fun lil' Zelda-like with tons and tons of hidden stuff. It constantly feels like there's something new to find!

I really wanted to like this game but there were so many small issues that, piled up just don't make it enjoyable. Two-colour graphics are cool at first but get old as everything just starts to blend together. Your swing has barely any range even if you get the sword upgrade. Enemies aren't knocked back (which I can normally excuse but in the context of everything else here I can't ignore). There's practically no story. Money feels completely irrelevant. I'm almost at 500 and there's not much to buy or let alone do anything with aside from just getting a bigger wallet. Graphics aren't that interesting to keep with the palette, feels like I'm playing a Playdate game. There's barely any save points so exploring is a complete slog and I've spent most of the run so far backtracking because I died in a far spot and have to go all the way back. Music is the only thing I can't criticize. It's pretty good. I stopped right after getting a ham, not knowing what it does and then being forced to use it in the forest Orc fight (essentially wasting it) and then having to backtrack ALL the way back to the forest from the town because there's no save points. At this point, with no story to be invested in, graphics not standing out and it being a pain to get anywhere I don't see a point to keep playing. There's nothing to keep me interested.

More neutral than good, actually. The main feature of the game (its black-and-white low-res style) is also its biggest problem because everything looks the same.

good game