ORPHEUS: TO HELL AND BACK

Very very light recommend, more as a novelty or proof of concept than an actual game. Its cool that people are developing things for retro hardware in this day and age. There's some jank to it that feels more like a general lack of polish than playing towards intentional hardware/design limitations so it wore my patience thin towards the later levels (I gave up on something that feels like the second to last boss). Not sure if skill issue or actually flawed design but up to that point it felt like it wouldn't overstay its welcome so I'm choosing to step away with a generally positive impression instead of sticking with it and malding. I wouldn't rec this to [i]everyone[/i] but if you're a mark for a retro curio you can load up on your analogue pocket or equivalent device you could certainly do worse with 3 bucks.

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The game just isn't fun to play. You WILL have numerous eye-rolling moments where you get instantly gimped by stepping too close to a pit, or stunlocked by a spiketrap, or get caught on some weird enemy hurtbox; and when it happens, you'll have to restart the entire floor. After every boss fight, I was just relieved that I wouldn't have to go through the previous floors BS again. The lyre mechanic also isn't very interesting to use. You just stand somewhere and mash B to make enemies slowly wobble towards you until they die. I reached the Hades floor, but just couldn't be bothered to complete it.

Played mostly on Analog Pocket. It's cool to have a new GameBoy game on cartridge, but it does not feel like a complete game to me. For one, how do you have a game about Orpheus playing his lyre as the main idea, but the lyre itself makes no sound? Just seems like a massive and disappointing oversight. There are some neat puzzles and cool ideas, and overall the presentation is very good, but other than that, it just barely feels like a game.

"Orpheus: To Hell and Back" é um jogo que replica muito bem toda a estética dos jogos da era do Game Boy, e que agora se torna ainda mais acessível por não precisar da plataforma portátil para rodar. O game tem claras inspirações nos Zeldas da plataforma, mas com uma identidade única. No entanto, ele sofre constantemente de bugs e alguns problemas de hit box em certos trechos, além é claro da falta de acessibilidade com a língua portuguesa, se limitando apenas aos textos em inglês em japonês. Você pode conferir a nossa análise completa aqui: https://www.salvandonerd.blog.br/orpheus-to-hell-and-back-analise-pc/

Fun cute little game with a unique mechanic of using a harp to control enemies in the environment and try to solve puzzle and defeat enemies. Would be cool to see this kind of mechanics further evolved and used in more ways in a future sequals.

pretty solid so far. i find the game really cute and wish i had found the kickstarter instead of only finding out about this an hour ago. i have to buy one of these carts. really cute and love the kid icarus art style! i find it quite difficult with having to redo the puzzles but im still enjoying it. 100% worth 3$ every gameboy fan needs this game in their library or on their shelf proud owner of this game!!!

Already backed this on Kickstarter (and played on my Analogue Pocket) but decided to also buy here to support the devs. Such an original, clever and nostalgic game! Hopefully it does well enough to fund more and more projects like this. We still need good ol' Game Boy games :)