Red Fury

A fast action game with great art and grim atmosphere that feels very authentic. The game has potential, but in it's current state is hampered by bad performance, questionable controls & design choices. The game offers a decent challenge, but also takes away this challenge by clearing bosses and enemies after you die, that you weren't able to defeat on your first attempt. Combat mechanics are pretty good, but feels hindered by bad performance. On my pretty good gaming PC my framerate is constantly shifting between 55-35 throughout the game, which is pretty bad. The game's length is quite short: my first playthrough took 75 minutes (with pauses in between because I was streaming and talking). Positives: +Art that looks inspired by oldskool manga like Dororo and Lone Wolf and Cub. +Grim & unsettling atmosphere that captures the stories, folklore and manga based on old times in Japan, you'll be confronted with torture, poverty, starving villagers & demons. +Very fitting and good music. Negatives: -My main gripe is that, after you die, the game clears (most) bosses and (certain) enemies that you didn't beat on first try taking away your opportunity to learn the mechanics and actually beat them. I find this a baffling and unacceptable design choice. -Bad performance (on high end PC). My framerate without much action going was around, drops to 40 with multiple enemies on screen, drops to 30 with many enemies. Because the framerate isn't stable I feel it hinders the combat. -Controls/mechanics: there is a delay after landing from a jump which prevents you from hitting enemies standing behind you. Many times when I wanted to hit these enemies, the character would attack in direction I didn't mean to, resulting in getting hit or death. -Custom controls: I would like to map block to a button on my gamepad and be able to use the d-pad instead of analog stick for movement. Unfortunately that isn't possible, you can only map attack and jump. Again I feel the game certainly has potential, but in it's current state I cannot recommend it.

A surprising amount of effort was put into this short little game, with every run feeling a bit different depending on how often you died, where you died, which bosses you killed or missed (or spared), etc. I got 5 different endings while trying to do a deathless run, and wouldn't be surprised if there were more. Your movement and attacks are very fast, but the overall character control feels more deliberate rather than fluid, demanding careful spacing control with your dashes, backdashes and jumps. Because of that the game plays much better using a keyboard. It's difficult but never truly unfair, with every enemy action being telegraphed by unique animations (again, surprisingly high effort), every hidden enemy having a hint to their location, and so on. The biggest and possibly crippling issue is performance - yes it can drop sometimes, and yes it can affect combat, adding to the difficulty. A good chunk of my playtime was me trying to find a stable framerate by switching between Windows and Linux, trying different Proton versions and launch options, and other tweaks, unsuccessfully. I still can't bring myself to give this game a thumbs down, but I understand if someone would. It's a damn shame that this game seems abandoned, and between it's Steam and Dlsite sales, there may be no more than 10 people who might've seen even half of it's endings and bosses. Also if you decide to play it on Linux and the sound effects wouldn't play - either drop the Proton version to 5.13, or set the Japanese locale in the launch options: [code] HOST_LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 %command% [/code] Why would that only affect the sound effects but not the music or anything else is beyond me

Jogo muito divertido, gráficos bonitos e fluidos. Porém necessita urgente de uma atualização. Há bugs a serem corrigidos, e podem ser acrescentados ou um sistema de pontuação, galeria, mais dificuldades. O jogo apesar de bom é curto demais, se fosse dar uma nota daria 6, mas caso o jogo estivesse em seu pleno potencial mereceria um 10, sinto que esse jogo foi abandonado pelo criador, oque é uma pena, pois é um ótimo jogo. Espero que o projeto fique melhor. e mais barato, com a correção de todos os problemas valeria o valor pedido, mas do jeito que esta deveria ser cobrado no máximo R$15,00 Very fun game, with beautiful and fluid graphics. However, it urgently needs an update. There are bugs to be fixed, and a scoring system, gallery, or more difficulty levels could be added. Despite being good, the game is too short. If I were to give it a score, I’d give it a six, but if the game were at its full potential, it would deserve a ten. I feel like this game was abandoned by the creator, which is a shame because it’s a great game. I hope the project improves and becomes cheaper. With all the problems fixed, it would be worth the asking price, but in its current state, it should cost at most $3.00. とても楽しいゲームで、美しくスムーズなグラフィックがあります。しかし、緊急にアップデートが必要です。修正すべきバグがあり、スコアリングシステムやギャラリー、難易度の追加もできます。良いゲームですが、短すぎます。評価をつけるなら6点ですが、ゲームが本来の潜在能力を発揮すれば10点に値するでしょう。このゲームが開発者によって放棄されたように感じており、残念です。素晴らしいゲームなので、プロジェクトが改善され、価格が下がることを期待しています。すべての問題が修正されれば、要求された価格に見合うでしょうが、現在の状態では最大でも400円が適正です。