Minotaur is an awful experience after another for every moment you spend playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLpIVwdu0s
The game is a 3D Hack N' Slash where you play a minotaur that is fighting his way through what I guess is supposed to be a labyrinth. You traverse through environments and kill packs of enemies that spawn directly in front of you or simply stand completely still until you are roughly five feet away from them.
The gameplay is absolutely awful in every regard. The movement is sluggish until random moments where characters move extremely fast, the controls are unresponsive, missing animations for turning, getting up and taking damage.
The animations don’t fit many of the characters and look stupid. When the player gets knocked down or eats to regain health they will freeze in place in ridiculous poses.
The combat is terrible, you have a light attack, heavy attack, block and stun attacks. Each of these are nearly impossible to control, have no impact and sometimes flat out don’t work properly. Aiming while attacking is tight to where the mouse is on the screen, but it is very difficult to see where it is due to the poor lighting in the game.
There are supposed to be kill animations in the game but it just zooms into the minotaur while an enemy’s head flops off their body, completely stopping combat.
Enemy and player attacks have broken hitboxes that will miss often or become extremely overpowered. The player can be stun-locked and knocked to the ground repeatedly with it being a crapshoot as to whether or not the game registers you attacking in order to free yourself.
The A.I will group up in a single line and casually walk towards you. Sometimes they clip perfectly into each other and you end up fighting three or more of the same enemy with it all looking like one character model.
The camera cannot be moved and changes position constantly in really annoying ways. It’s often very hard to progress in combat due to this as you cannot see some enemies.
There are so many bugs, glitches, clipping issues that I can’t even begin to list them all. Highlights include walking through buildings, getting stuck on terrain, camera angles getting stuck, missing parts of enemies, animations wigging out and the music stopping.
There is nothing redeeming about this experience, it’s not even worth being in Early Access. This is something that should have been uploaded to itch.io for general feedback in how to make a game that works. The developer is attempting to convince people that it will be updated into a proper product but I highly doubt their ability to do so.
Stay far, far away from Minotaur.
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