Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons

Ok this might not be as polished and stylised as something like Guacamelee BUT.... This is basically a retro multiplayer Metroidania. It includes split screen AND online play for whichever style takes your fancy. As long as the retro vibes don't bother you this is a total steal ESPECIALLY on a sale.

First let me get the good stuff out of the way: - Faithful to the style of games this is based on - Charming graphical style and music - Easy to pick up and play with a partner Now let's talk about the rest. So this game is kinda hackishly put together and is largely built around fetch quests. A LOT of the game is fetch quests that lead into fetch quests. At first, the premise of a co-operative metroidvania sounds pretty damn cool, until you play long enough to realize how much the co-op aspect feels tacked on last minute to better sell the product. When you find yourself in a position where the player you've chosen is straight up unable to do anything against some bosses while the other player must do all of the work, on top of the design largely reflecting the singleplayer style play where you're able to switch characters on the fly, it dawns you just how much the game isn't really built around co-op at all. As a single-player experience, this game is pretty alright, albeit very tedious. I'd also say it lacks a bit of imagination in that it owns the stock RPG themes and presentation without deviation from those, which might be nice for some who like that theme in itself. The boss patterns are horrible. Absolutely awful. There's numerous times where I found my partner and I could not understand the telegraphing or hitboxes on the bosses or their projectiles, and many of the deaths simply felt out of our control. On top of this, I found Pampas to lack a lot of interesting qualities as a playable character. I'm unsure if this is by design or not. As you progress through the game, you unlock new abilities to bypass certain restrictions and become stronger. Selene being a magic user unlocks a number of spells and interesting qualities, whereas Pampas mainly gets direct upgrades to the strength of his sword or armor. His upgrades feel kinda lackluster and lazy in terms of gameplay comparatively, so if you're playing as him with somebody else, the whole time you're gonna be saying "Man, I wish I could get something cool like what you're getting. I'm just a dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥ knight swingin my swooooord" All in all, this isn't really made to be a co-op game I don't think, and what you're really getting out of this is a very mediocre metroidvania with some decent music. This really needs work, because the co-op element is one of the few unique qualities it has going for it, and if that's not taken enough into account for the bosses and level design, it's pretty damn lame.

It's a fun Metroidvania! A nice big "overworld" castle to explore, with more linear "dungeon" areas with bosses. And of course, lots of items and upgrades to get. Plus a neat gimmick where you can steal enemy abilities to use as subweapons. If you've heard of Maze of Galious, the parallels are not subtle. Which ain't a bad thing!

Feels more like a busywork simulator than a metroidvania, you spend roughly half the game doing chores for the gods. Upgrade items are almost entirely found within the main hub, you really only need to go into a dungeon to finally finish the game or if a chore needs you to go there. There's roughly 42 items (more if you count different tiers of upgradeable items) and maybe a third of them feel like they impact gameplay in any way. A lot more are so extremely niche you might never see their effects or exist solely as a key for some arbitrary lock. The dungeons are ok but same-y as they follow a very rigid format. None of the bosses were fun, usually they were weird gimmick affairs that lock you into a very specific strategy but then take a long while to kill even with that strategy. I gave up on the final boss, he's an absolute damage sponge who gives less and less time to attack as the fight goes on

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一个人控制两个人组合探索恶魔城，玩起来怪上头的，地图做得很好，我觉得地图找到93%左右就不用管了，剩下藏宝地点不是人能想出来的，非常奇葩。比如背对墙站好几秒、在一个地方蹦蹦跳才会出现隐藏梯子，这咋发现的......打倒数第二个boss一定把剑升级了再去 。倒数第二个boss和最后boss有点难。 虽然没中文，但也能玩下去，任务地点都会标好，你去就行了，神庙里的提示看一下，其他的剧情不重要。看起来复古，除了部分小钥匙头疼了几次，实际玩起来难度比想象中友好很多，推荐推荐

一言で言えばMSX版ガリウスの、ファン制作によるMSX２版続編といった感じのゲームです。 ガリウスはMSX、ファミコンともにプレイ済みでかなり面白かった記憶があり本作を購入。 本作は良く出来てはいるんだけれども、さすがに本家と比較するとBGM、効果音、マップ、自分や敵キャラ、背景やアイテムのデザイン、ともに劣化といった感じで今一歩物足りない感じです。まあそこらへんはインディーですから。 という訳でガリウスっぽいゲームがもう一回遊びたいなって人に向けて だ け おススメにしときます。 逆に過去作のガリウスを遊んだことが無い方にとっては、ガリウス自体が癖のあるゲームですのでもし購入を検討されている方はそれは覚悟の上で。 今ふり返ってみるとMSX版ガリウスは昭和のゲームですが、本当に良く出来てたなと思います。

Segundo juego que me paso de Fran el primero fue unmetal, (unepic sería el tercero y estoy en la parte final, a ver si me lo acabo antes de poner la reseña). Este me ha parecido el mejor de los 3, porque lo he jugado con mi hijo de 11 años en coop local y dice que ha sido su juego favorito de todos los que ha jugado. Nos ha costado mucho acabarnoslo pero lo hemos conseguido y la parte final nos la hemos tenido que pasar en Steamdeck porque en pc a dobles hay monstruos que son directamente imposibles, ya que a dobles hay ataques que pampas no puede esquivar, lo mismo pasa con el Kraken, que Pampas es imposible de llegar a través del agua al monstruo y tuvimos que pasarlo en solitario. Aún así nos ha encantado, lo hemos disfrutado muchísimo y nos encantaría un pampas y selene 2 que cuente la segunda parte de la historia. Felicidades Fran por el cariño que le pones a tus juegos, son preciosos y mecánicamente super divertidos.