Nobody Saves the World

I relished the game, fire soundtrack aswell; 10/10 imo

actually super fun

In general this is a great game. Graphics are nice, dialogs are kinda funny, music works... Everything there for a smashing hit. But some small issues keep it from being great: First off your character only moves in 8 ways, Cardinal directions plus diagonal. This is obviously another reference to especially the 16bit era Zelda games, but Nobody Saves the World is a much faster game and as such 8-way-steering just feels clunky and limiting. It also doesn't work well with analog joysticks, hence a controller with a great directional pad is highly recommended. Just a questionable design choice. Second, and that's the point that dropped me from "Great game" to "Not recommended" is the fact, that you far too easily get stuck on geometry and enemies. This isn't much an issue on the overworld where you usually have enough space to maneuver. But in tight spaces this becomes insanely frustrating. Small corner collisions decide over life and death and concave spaces become death traps. It's striking that the developers obviously understood that they have an issue here, but their only solution was: If you really get stuck, you get teleported to some unoccupied space - That's pretty much accepting defeat. It doesn't help when you're cornered by some enemies. The level design even exacerbates this at times with weird placements of objects that make it easy for monsters to lock you into a corner and drop all your health with hardly any chance for you to fight back. This is a grave gamedev beginner mistake, i'm flustered why this was accepted to stay in. It just makes the game feel very, very clunky and unrefined. Bugger, i really liked everything else about the game, but this really pissed me off beyond what i can accpet for a recommendation.