Tails of Iron

I have mixed feelings about this game. The art style is great and the world rich of details. The story wants to be interesting, but is not told convincingly. It kinda "happens", as some NPC approaches, saying "oh no this happened" and "oh no now that happened". The side quests are anything but that, as the game requires you to beat them to get money to continue the main quest. At the most inappropriate times no less which frequently puts a halt to your exploring and causes you to visit recent areas again and again. [b]About the difficulty:[/b] The game promises "punishingly brutal combat", which is kinda true. I started the game on Bloody Whiskers, thinking "Eh, how hard can it be?"... Spoiler: Very. So I switched to normal and beat every boss in like three tries max. Played 100% including DLC in about 10 hours. The game is a lot about observing your foes and learning when you can punish them. Blocking is easy, dodging is annoying due to the varying and sometimes bigger-as-they-seem hitboxes of enemies. So you'll gonna die to bosses not really knowing what hit you. As enemies don't do as much damage on Normal, it is still doable though. Then I retried Bloody Whiskers because I thought I learned how the games works, and indeed it got a little better. But still: This mode is just not fun. The enemies and especially the bosses are too fast for the human eye, and if you don't see which attack a boss is going to do within 0.1 seconds, you're screwed. In the end, the way up to the final boss was just a five-minute memory game, starting over if you get hit once. I did it for my cursed addiction for achievements and I will never do it again. In the end, I still decide for a positive review because I had a lot of fun on my normal playthrough nevertheless, one I accommodated to and accepted the flaws.

The game has cute graphics and a simple story which surves its purpose. The narrator being voiced by geralt is pretty nice. My first playthrough was on normal difficulty and really enjoyable. You can easily stack armor and tank a lot of enemy attacks and mechanics. The only thing i found a bit annoying was the backtracking. You get side quests which in reality arent side quests as you have to complete almost all the side quests to progress the main quest. Now you might ask yourself why is this review negative? The Bloody Whiskers difficulty. If youre like me and like to get all the achievements you have to play through the game on the hardest difficulty. Playing the game on BW was the most grueling masochistic experience i probably ever had playing a video game even though it only lasted about 8 hours. When every enemy kills you in one or two hits (later in the game maybe three) you really start to notice the flaws of the combat system. There are a few attacks that are just labeled wrong (there are two different types of red markers one aoe, one frontal attack) which isnt a dealbreaker since you can and have to memorize the attack animations, but still annoying. There are dodge rolls in this game like in most souls likes (if you can call this game one). However you dont get i-frames during your rolls. This results in when you are positioned at the edge of the arena but also too far away from the boss simply not being able to dodge an attack. Because there are also no i-frames after being damaged. Often times you get stun locked at the edge of the arena by two or three attacks in a row so getting hit once just kills you because you cant dodge roll out of the sun lock. The hitboxes of a lot of the bosses are also embarrassingly bad. All these flaws combined make the game so frustrating and the BW difficulty being the sole reason i actually wrote this review. So if you only plan on playing the game on the regular difficulty i can actually recommend it. If you want to get all the achievements however or play on the hardest difficulty. Dont, save yourself your sanity.

So good. Ignore all the negative comments, game is great from artstyle, to story, and even combat. There are some frustrating moments, but never once did I feel I wasn't up against something I could beat. And yeah, it's good. Nothing more to say really.

手感稀烂，BOOS纯恶心人，机会没有后摇，一靠近就跑，不靠近就被恶心，刚看一刀对方方红感叹号了。不躲又不行，然后就是机会全屏的冲撞，闪早就快慢刀恶心你，闪慢又跑不出攻击范围，玩这个真不如去玩点别的，

Very stylish and thoroughly enjoyable.

Люди что занимались этой игрой как будто никогда в своей жизни не играли в игры Я даже не знаю чем игра может удивить кроме "о, крысы"... это всё Боссы скучные, геймплей такой себе. Как будто у игры должен был быть другой жанр, но в последние дни перед релизом они решили поменять всё и сделали вот это хрючево

温馨，简单，点的魂味，就是传送麻烦