Regions Of Ruin

I really like this game, but it's also very finicky and tedious. I enjoy tedium but I don't know if I would recommend it. If you like repetitive gameplay, pixel art, and don't have any vision issues with small UI or small items on the ground, you will probably like this game! It's got the old school charm of opening individual levels to walk right and smack everything to death. There are fun impact-frames, slow-downs and zoom-ins whenever you do crits, and the pixel art is fun. However, the game really doesn't offer anything that other games have. The controls feel clunky (controller recommended) and that can make the combat occasionally feel clunky when you're trying to dash or jump only to find that your character just doesn't respond to the inputs. The game balance feels a little off; it starts out easy then ramps up the difficulty dramatically, then goes super easy again. I'm not even quite sure how I got stronger, just got lucky and found more equipment I guess. Played on Easy so that might just be the difficulty setting. Building the home settlement gets annoying because you can only move right or left, and eventually your buildings get scattered. I find that I'm dashing constantly to get to one building to the next. Loading screens SUUUUCK. It's a cute little screen with tool tips, that's fine, but going into ANY location prompts a fade to black and loading screen. Every. Single. Time. Each location takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Countless fade to blacks. Wtf is this game loading? Every area is tiny and reuses the same assets... UI is tiny. My impaired vision made it hard to read. There is an option to scale up the UI, which was great, until I realized the map became bigger than the screen and I literally couldn't see certain buttons until I adjusted it. So... Bad UI scaling. This game has the same problem as all pixel games; the detail is in the tiny scraps of pixels, so if you have poor vision this game is not meant for you. Ultimately, I actually do enjoy this game. It took me an hour or two to get the gameplay loop, and eventually I found it somewhat relaxing to gradually explore the map and clear out levels. However, I am a boring, repetitive, tedious person. I do not believe the game appealing to this side of me is a good sign at all when it has other flaws. My suggestion is that if you REALLY like pixel games and think this old school gameplay looks fun, wait for a sale.

i guess, on sale tho

Quería jugarlo en español, pero no es posible. A pesar de disponer de la opción para seleccionar el español, está totalmente bugeado, aparecen texto ocultos o con caracteres extraños. Al seleccionar otros idiomas, no pasa. Me habría gustado al menos poder traducir yo los textos y disfrutar del juego, pero no he visto que sea posible.

Me gustó mucho el juego, aunque no tiene una gran dificultad creo que la historia/mapa/misiones/mecánicas están muy logrados. No es muy largo de completar, no puedes esperar un AAA... Pero para echar el rato creo que está increíble.

cute

Very fun, lots to do and a good learning curve.

Far from perfect, it is really enjoyable. It presents nice game mechanics, but the scaling ladder seems a little harsh.