It took me long to decide if it would be positive or negative review, which by itself should tell about the game.
If you struggle to decide to play it or not. Definitely [u]YES[/u] if you interest in great visuals, music and nice story. Definitely [u]NO[/u] if you looking for cool game mechanics and pleasant gameplay loop
[b]Genre:[/b] 2D Soulslike Platformer.
[b]Setting:[/b] basically Redwall tales with skaven-like Frogs which is cool
[b]Artstyle:[/b] Perfect
[b]Music:[/b] Very Good
[b]Combat:[/b] Interesting idea, lack of tuning, which sometimes give more pain that fun
[b]Story:[/b] okay, but nothing special and i felt like it was not enough motivation explained behind frog tribes
[b]Quests, Progression:[/b] Awfull
It is very immersive because of great artstyle, music and all that animated stuff and scenes that happening around you and on background plans (cities rebuild, festivals, fights). And it feels like a it's nice game, but than it is crushing under so many poor game-design decisions.
- Most annoying it's side quests which usually looks like you can take only one from one vendor at a time and which will lead you to the dungeon, but them after complete it, next one from the board will lead you in this exact dungeon and again and again, going throuh same corridor, same enemies, just why ? It is feeling like a waste of time.
- Most of the game rewards is weapons and armor, which is divided on light, medium and heavy category which practially make no sense really because light armor can be better than heavy stats wise. You just need to click more because armors of different types are in different ui sections. Also there is so many items that 90% will never be used just because most of the time player will use which is best. Also there is no way what to do with all that scrap in inventory, no selling or dismantling. Most fun thing is in the game exist smit that forging weapons and armor using resource called blueprints, but he forging random already presetupped weapons and armors. Great! Another piece of rubble into the pile
I like what developers intend to do with Tails combat it's very different from other platforms games and you feel all that collides with enemies. But is so many moments where you can't really read boss attacks because same indicators for different attacks and animations no different either. It's became in coin flip situation. Also i don't really like that roll not save you in process of roll. It creates many situations when you must read in miliseconds in which direction to roll and pray that you was right and that distance will be enough to not receive damage.
7- of missing bards in Crypt from 10
