Necrosphere

freakin awesome game!

Quite good! This is a really hard platformer with some excellent puzzles/sequences. The one thing I didn't like was the lack of lenience on the dash as it kept feeling like I was making mistakes when the timing was just rather tight. There's a super high skill ceiling with this game which is super cool, and I'm just barely high enough to beat it. The DVD hunt is also pretty cool for completionists.

So far, it's been a lot of fun until I got the dash. It. Is. Garbage. At :24 seconds in the above trailer, you'll see him dashing from platform to platform, except for in that area, the dash hardly works at all. 100% success anywhere else. This area? Dash refuses to work 80% of the time. I get it's a "2 button game," but double-tapping to use a the dash when a third button to activate an ability would be way nicer and actually make sense. I've confirmed a bug in this area by using a turbo-controller. Dash rate of 100% success with it as well until you get to this area, than it just decides the dash doesn't want to work anymore. Highly irritating.

Hm, my first review seemed to get eaten. Anyway, I saw this at PAX and thought it looked interesting, but I was so disappointed that this might be the first game I've ever wanted a refund for. I quit about an hour in. The developer, artist, and composer clearly have talent and skill but the result is a bit of a mess. Spoilers ahead. 1. It's clear that there were just not enough ideas to make this game worth the eight dollar asking price. If it were free, it would be a screaming deal. If it were, say, two or three dollars, it might be priced correctly. But it's eight dollars, and the game runs out of interesting material about thirty minutes in. The developers' commitment to have a game with only left and right movement buttons is interesting and makes for a design challenge, but this result got stale fast. Maybe it's possible to make an interesting game with those limitations, but this one wasn't it. I thought, this game being a metroidvania, I would receive power-ups that added features rather than piling on the movement buttons. That might have saved it. 2. The difficulty of the game comes from a bad use of the controls. This is impressive considering there are two buttons. Once you get the jetpack, the game becomes a nightmare to play because it's extremely difficult to make precise inputs. If you press left or right, you move. If you press either button twice quickly, you dash. If you press both, you use the jetpack. Some places in the game require you to finesse between those three abilities very quickly. Does that sound hard? You're wrong. It's *impossible.* The finger dexterity required to suddenly go from pressing left, to pressing both buttons, to pressing left twice quickly, to pressing both, to pressing right, and so on - that is not something worth developing the skill to perform. There's a reason other games would have assigned unique buttons to the dash and jetpack mechanics. 3. While we're on the controls, it's almost always a bad idea to make a double-tap use a separate skill from a single tap of a button - especially if both skills are required to be used one after the other. Few games do it right. I can think of one: Axiom Verge. And that one works because the double-tapping is used somewhat infrequently, never in precision platforming, and never rapidly oscillating direction. 4. Why is there no mini-map? Somehow I got lost in this game. Yes, this tiny game got me lost. There are no interesting landmarks in the world to help me navigate from memory, and it's just too small and flat to justify pulling out the graph paper and mapping it by hand. I wandered around for quite a bit looking for new areas because it was so hard to tell where I'd been and which areas I hadn't explored yet. The only notable difference in locations was the color of the foreground. 5. Most of the time the music is fine. But for the love of god, don't put plain English speaking into a BGM unless it's for an extremely good reason. I had to listen to that hot garbage of a philosophical take for what felt like a million years while I tried to learn how to use the jetpack. It was distracting after 10 seconds, annoying after 1 minute, and infuriating after who knows how long. Lyrics and/or spoken word are rarely used in video game soundtracks for a damn good reason. Despite all this, I hope the developers make new games in the future. I'm sure they have the ability to make something good. This one just wasn't it.

obra maestra 20/10 y god

只用左右的平台银河城 不过地图有点太大了容易迷路 双击有点反人类

何度もやられていく中で攻略法を見つけるのが楽しいゲーム。 途中で同じ方向のボタンを二回押すと発動するダッシュのスキルを入手するが、判定がシビアなのかよく失敗するのが難点。