Nine Sols

Fun game, I liked it. the art is cool, graphics are nice. gameplay is awesome. story is interesting too. got lost at the beginning a bit though which sucked.

AWESOME

I went into Nine Sols blind and I have to reccomend it. The gameplay is similar to Hollow Knight and Dead Cells. It is really fun and addicting. Bosses can take a lot of time to beat especially the final boss. Every time I encountered what I would consider an issue with the gameplay the game somehow managed to flip it around almost instantly. Whenever I had an issue with the movement or the functionality of an ability I recieved a new upgrade that fixed what I didn´t enjoy. Halfway through the story I genuinely struggled to find anything negative. The map is huge. Unlike Hollow Knight I still cant remember the map and it is somehow extremely believable. Platforming segments are incorporated into the map in a natural cyberpunk esque way that never once made me question why something is the way it is. The puzzles are really intuitive and fun. I especially liked the Boundless repository. Despite all this positivity I do however have some criticisms. 1. The Jade system is really unbalanced with many Jades being almost mandatory meanwhile others either useless or outright negative. Their descriptions also often mislead me into believing they were better than they truly were or vice-versa. 2. The game unlocks various shops very early in the game at which point you do not have enough money to afford anything. This made me think I have to farm money to buy the upgrades rather than continue the story. 3. The final boss is too hard compared to the previous bossfights. I enjoyed the difficulty but I would much rather have all the bossfights be harder the closer you get to the final boss instead of them all having a similar difficulty except for the final boss. The ending felt deserved because of that but the game felt too easy in comparison even though it definitely wasn´t. 4. Very rarely you will experience an unavoidable death due to the lack of I-frames after a hit. Falling into water can teleport you into attacks or hazards, Being flung by an attack into a hazard with more than one hitbox can insta-kill you, Fire is very unpredictable when it comes to damage, Whenever there are two or more lasers next to eachother the hit from one can fling you into the other which will do the same infinitely until you die, etc. Overall the game is mostly bugless and the gameplay is fun. The story is really great and the enviroment is really well designed. I would reccomend this.