Source of Madness

I've had this game for a while, but not played too much. The little I have played has been enjoyable. It's fun having a simple inventory system with random drops in a platform game like this. Platformers aren't really my thing, but I wanted to leave a positive review anyway since it seems that this game is now getting bombed with wrong information reviews regarding the usage of ai to create this game. Anyone white knighting "muh artists" and giving negative reviews to what you would perceive as ai slop are wrong on this one. Here's what the dev had to say on this: "Soooo okay, this is NOT AI slop, this was made way before AI art became a big thing. There are a few cutscenes that were made with an old Diffusion model and later animated with another system. This game was made with love between mainly the years 2018-2021. I do regret adding the diffusion cutscenes especially with the stigma anything neural network based comes with these days. But the game is mainly made with hand drawn art that was later treated with an algorithm that I find ethical called deep style transfer which basically redrew our own art in the style of a source texture that we photographed or made ourselves. Personally I am proud of the world building I made in this game and it has a very unique physics based world and procedural enemies. As for fun, I think it could be better but a lot of people have enjoyed and loved it. I am trying to perfect fun in my new game Midnight Horde that is not using any of that stuff at all this time. I think it is more than worth it, if it sticks with you it is at least 10-12 hours of unique worlds."

worth trying it out but the AI textures make the game unplayable. i understand it's supposed to be weird and dark and cosmologically evil and stuff but this is purely from a brain perspective. its hard to really understand where the boundaries of objects and creatures begin and end. mobs seemingly have no real rhyme or reason to their shape--they feel like splatters that move around straight out of a dev sandbox engine. the game feels good and the controls are alright and the abilities and trees seem meaningful and engaging to pursue. and its a cool concept lore-wise. but it just feels like no effort was put at all into the textures and the out-of-the-box AI-ness of them doesnt help at all. it hinders it, actually. ie, you think something is meant to be a door, but is it actually just a wall? something so basic and yet its so annoying when trying to just play and enjoy the game. feels like an image was half-rendered and the game was shipped anyway. anyways, good try. try again maybe?

Extrañamente adictivo, la escenografía, el arte de fantasía oscura me recuerda a varios juegos estilo metroidvania, los controles son sensibles y la jugabilidad es desafiante.

recomendo

For the price, it can be fun. uses a lot of generative AI. Might need some balancing on the holy cloak because I finished the first act on my first playthrough by healing between fights.

No entiendo un carajo la historia, pero esta muy entretenido y divertido el gameplay

Taka tam prosta, nie skomplikowana gra. Daje rade.