Spirited Line

한대 맞으면 죽는 정말 짧은 보스러시 게임 스토리도 아주 약간만 있을 뿐이고 그냥 보스잡는게 끝 일부 화면 앵글 같은게 조금 불편하지만 적당히 할만하네요

This is a thumbs-up with caveats. Go in expecting jank. Hit detection and hit boxes can be iffy. The later bosses can feel more tedious and punishing than truly challenging at times. The lack of music outside of boss fights (and every boss has the same simple loop other than the final one) really kills the atmosphere. Otherwise, I had an OK time with it. At such a low price, grabbing on sale is worth the 1-2 hours it'll take to finish it once (which also gives all achievements). With a bit more polish, especially some music between bosses, variations of music for each boss, and tightening up of the fight design for some, this would be pretty good. As it is, it's an OK proof of concept that hopefully bodes well for an improved game in this style later from the devs.

Legal, senti falta de mais sons nesse jogo e algumas cutscenes pros bosses, precisa de uma polida com certeza. E quem sabe não adicionar uns chefes novos.

Great little game

Reviewing games after playing them for such a short period of time is generally mean-spirited, ill-informed, or ill-intentioned, but as the game itself is quite short, I feel less bad about doing so. Also, making games is incredibly hard, so I'm not sitting here saying I could do better. I'm offering my opinion on what I played of the game. There are two massive issues that hindered my enjoyment of the game, in a way the cranked the frustration levels to 11. The first is the camera, which doesn't show you enough of the later fights, and obscures attacks (placement/direction etc.) on both the left and right sides of the arenas way more, leading to incredibly cheap feeling deaths (I got lost in the camera behind one of the bosses, unable to see myself OR the boss, as the camera's positioning wasn't zoomed out far enough for me to see). The second is the insanely punitive hitbox on your character, sometimes arbitrarily so. Having played a pretty decent number of Souls-likes, the timings and 'means' by which some attacks 'hit' you feel really harsh and not particularly 'fair'. Difficulty is fine, if it's executed fairly. Even one-hit death games can execute the hitbox in a way that's fair when done right, but here, it just feels the wrong kind of punishing - the unfairly punitive. The ways both The Rat King and boss before that (briefly forgotten its name) hit you rarely feel actually fair, in a way that actively saps any fun I was having out of the game. There are a couple of other issues that get in the way (the 3-5 second lingering shot everytime you die is a pretty big frustration), but the two I mentioned are the biggest and the most impactful on the game's enjoyment. While I got frustrated at the earlier bosses, I persevered and got through them - the two penultimate fights though? I noped out of those and the game because just how frustrating, and how (in some ways) 'not my fault', failure felt. It's got a great PS1-style aesthetic, or at least has a look that evokes the nostalgia for that aesthetic. It's just a shame how obstructive the camera is and how punitive the hitboxes feel.