TERRACOTTA

WARNING. NO NOT BUY THIS GAME. GAME CAN'T BE COMPLETED. This game has an issue in the second level that a lot of people are facing that literally prevents you from finishing it. This issue was addressed to the team months ago and still no fix. Also, the positive reviews here are very very sketchy. People with only 1 review posting here. Especially coming from people from Spain (this game was made by a Spanish developing team). Very little time was spent on this game from all the reviews so nobody got to the bug just yet. In short, you can't finish the game and there seems to be fake reviews all around. Don't make the same mistake I made. And this is not even me going into detail about some of the questionable game design and other bugs.

TERRACOTTA is an action-adventure video game developed by Appnormals Team and published in the United States by Freedom Games and plusDSgames. Gamers play as one of the terracotta sculptures made for the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, that were then buried with him for protection after death. Gameplay First, thank goodness the developers give players a choice between using the keyboard and using a controller. I grew up using a controller, so playing on the keyboard is just harder for me, and players have to think fast and be quick in this game.  Playing as the unnamed terracotta warrior, gamers have no weapons. The gameplay is strictly defensive, which is amazing and oh-so difficult.  While trying to figure out the puzzle mechanics of a level, gamers will have to run around in circles trying to avoid the cursed warriors’ arrows, spears, and spells.  That being said, gamers are not defenseless against attacks. Players use the power of Qi to manipulate natural elements like wind, water, and earth to pass through levels. The game has two dimensions, the Yin and the Yang, in which players use their Qi to travel back and forth at will. Your Qi can do different things depending on which dimension you are in. In the Yin dimension, which is the world of death, where the terracotta warriors are frozen, players’ Qi can be used to build walls, activate the elements, and draw puzzle keys, which will have effects in the Yang dimension. The Yang is the afterlife, it is bright and moving, and here the terracotta warriors are represented in their spirit form, where they will attack you! In Yang, Qi energy can throw up a fast shield or dash through a quickly closing door. I absolutely love the mechanics of traveling back and forth between the Yin and Yang worlds. Developers even separated leveling up based on Yin and Yang, so to gain a new Yin skill, that skill has to be found in Yin, and vice versa.  It is important to travel back and forth often because players will find coins, statues, special story elements, and paths in one dimension but not the other. Each level of the game involves figuring out how to use the environment to navigate the traps and other warriors to get to a special button that, when pushed, will release the souls of all the terracotta warriors who were active on that level.  This is easier said than done since the complexity of the game levels up quickly. And, as mentioned, players have no weapons to fend off attacks; players have to be extra clever and willing to try unexpected tactics.  For example, getting all the warriors in Yang to chase you around, then switching to Yin and using your Qi to draw a wall around them, before switching back to Yang, with all the warriors now trapped inside a Qi wall, giving you enough time to figure out how to activate a gate. Or, and this one caused me to rage quit several times, learning how to perfectly time an arrow from a Qi crossbow with an arrow from a token soldier to hit two different buttons simultaneously while running away from spears. OR, to rapidly switch back and forth between Yin and Yang to lure the horseback warrior onto all three blocks of a door lock and then hold him in place by activating a wind dragon before running around to set up Qi walls to bounce the wind to spin the windmills to open the freaking gate! I usually listen to a podcast while playing a game like this, lose myself in the puzzles, and zone out. In this game, I couldn’t because I was thinking too hard about what the heck I had to do to get through the level. Story The story is great.  Gamers play as a single terracotta warrior inhabited by the worthy soul of a poor farmer. This warrior is the only one out of eight thousand soldiers who is not suffering from a mysterious curse. I haven’t made it to the end of the game yet, but I think the curse is the spell the first emperor placed on the soldiers to make them servants in the afterlife. The Chinese goddess Nüwa seems upset at the imbalance that trapping eight thousand souls in perpetual servitude has caused in the natural order and has helped awaken you as a terracotta warrior to free the souls and restore balance. Even though the plot seems relatively straightforward, I like the story idea that gamers play as soldiers fighting against the person they were meant to protect in life in order to save their fellow warriors after death. How long is this game? Developers say the game is between 15-20 hours. I have to say I have doubts about this estimate. My first time sitting down to play I played for about two hours. Then I restarted the game, and knowing how the puzzles worked, I blasted through the same amount of the game in about forty minutes.  As I progressed into the game, I learned that this forty-minute section was about halfway through the “introduction,” where I learned the game’s basic mechanics. I hadn’t officially started the game until I was transported to an underground chamber with a giant diagram representing the Tao on the floor. This diagram led to eight new levels, or what I’m calling elemental paths, for me to explore. Each of these paths centers around a different element, like wind, water, fire, etc., that players will learn to manipulate with Qi. According to developers, the end of the game is a nine-level extravaganza that utilizes all eight elements the player has mastered throughout the game to defeat the Big Bad. This…sounds like a lot! Now I’m no quick gamer. I’m a completionist that needs to find all the little statues and coins (also, I can’t jump in video games, which can cause problems). Taking that into consideration and doing all kinds of fancy math, I would say it takes 3-4 hours to master an elemental path. That includes the boss fight at the end of each path, which, believe me, is not easy.  Being generous to myself, I guess it will take me around thirty hours to complete this game. But this estimate does not include rage quits, which I think will add several more days.

A really cool game that mixes both puzzles and action to fight the enemies. It has a really cool concept with two dimensions and the use of energy to create barriers! Also, I love the designs of the different scenarios and the music

Interesting idea, the music and the visuals are nice. There is some storyline as well in there somewhere, but nothing important, the small stories are nice. But this game should be in early access or in its current state cheaper. In the later parts of the game it even feels like I am supposed to be the one testing it for bugs. In the last chapter at least you can bypass a lot of puzzle elements just by jumping "creatively". I think that was an oversight by the developers, but I was really thankful for that, because by that time the game was way too tedious and annoying. The biggest problem in the last chapter is when you fall of the map in certain levels the game either puts you to the start of the current level (more annoying in pointlessly enlarged levels) or doesn't register your demise and you just fall endlessly. In the latter case you have to exit to the main menu, restart your save and walk around in that absolulety useless starting elevator "dimension" just to get to play again. (Okay, this elevator place is not that problematic if the game works as intended, but when you have to restart you session multiple times, you just wish it never existed.) Oh, and if you didn't find some collectibles and small stories in the first part of the game (before the elevator) for whatever reason, well, shame. Currently there is no option to revisit that part of the game without completely restarting you save file (at least I didn't find it). There are some other miniscule bugs here and there (which grow in number the more you progress), but nothing serious. At least the game can be completed now. It is not bad, but for this price I wouldn't recommend it, only if there is some discount on it.

An interesting game, for sure, but far too janky to be enjoyable. First of all, the English text is complete gibberish most of the time. I understand English is not the dev's first language, but I don't understand Spanish or Chinese! What scant tutorial there is makes no sense; I needed to look at a youtube video just to learn how to play. The controls themselves are also super fiddly and not very intuitive. Even Controller support is iffy, and sometimes struggles to register when a button is being held down. There are also bugs. The player character sometimes falls out of world, as does collectible objects. Sometimes enemies just run into walls forever, and collision seems all over the place. I understand this is an indie game, but for a "finished" game (that you expect people to pay real money for) bugs of this sort are inexcusable. And I ran into these despite only playing for an hour! It's a shame, because I can see what the dev is going for, and I'd love to play a game like this, but the execution is all over the place. It's not unplayable, just very disappointing; I have ultimately decided to refund rather than go any further.

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Unique application of puzzles combined with some action. I love the setting and the Asian lore, controls could improve a bit and some parts look a bit difficult for me, but overall I'm having quite some fun with it, in a refreshing way.

Unfortunately a game breaking bug on second level, where you are supposed to use a new skill, but the key bind for that does not work, neither does the controller bind. That prevents me from continuing with the game, luckily under 2 hours, so I was able to refund it.

Really good game. The puzzles are fun, Qi is such a great mechanic thats used well throughout the game, it's got great art and music inspired by Chinese culture. 8.5/10

西班牙开发组做的中国古代题材游戏，中西合作开发，中国参与了编曲和配音等等内容。 很能促进中西友好啊。我国文化又被歪果仁传扬了。 玩法体验独特，需要鼠标画符实体化，作为空气墙挡板。 防御或者利用机关反杀，卡位等等，用途多样。 阴阳两界交替，虚虚实实切换解密。 大量中国元素很令人自豪，兵马俑，长城…… 场景很大，很美，祖国山河壮丽，神秘，道术…… 目前不能自定义键位，键盘党很难受。推荐手柄。 另外说一句，发行商名字叫加鸡腿（plusDSgames），哈哈~ [table][td][b]关注我们 [/b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30253125]甄游组[/url] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34433893]第一印象[/url] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40602490]免费游戏[/url][/td][/table]