The Dark Queen of Mortholme

What a fun little concept. I am a huge fan of the souls series and this game puts you as the boss. Very simple but it tells a compelling story which I would love to see fleshed out. Give this a game a go, it's really good.

Jogo com proposta interessante, mas com potencial alto demais para o jogo atingir. Recomendo jogar pelo menos uma vez, fácil de jogar.

This game is terrible value in terms of price to playtime, it is beatable in under an hour and not replayable at all basically, but it's still pretty cheap in terms of comparison to other games, and it's a very polished and thoughtful experience that explores the themes of personal growth. Spoilers, for this and for Undertale: it shows the perspective of a videogame final boss who has to deal with a player endlessly repeating their fight in a way reminiscent of how Flowey from Undertale worked, a character who was aware of the player's save file trickery and other game mechanics who grew sick of the neverending cycle but can ultimately be redeemed, just like the queen in this game accepting defeat at the end (or not since there are multiple dialogue options, and a tough to get ending where you kill the player enough for them to actually give up). That similarity to Undertale, as well as the differences making this short experience unique, make for an amazing experience, that I would recommend. The vibe of the world and the depiction of a really tough fight that takes many attempts to beat reminds me of soulslike games, specifically blasphemous which is a 2D game in that style, though this game isn't challenging at all outside maybe the secret killing the player ending. The amount of polish and exploration of interesting ideas here with the 2 characters ideologies (and abilities since the queen physically can't simply leave the throne room to level up, not within the scope of the game at least) regarding personal growth clashing, it does leave a desire for a full game in this style, and that's where I'd recommend Blasphemous as I mentioned, despite having only played a very small amount of that game, as well as Dead Cells and Hollow Knight to a lesser extent. As for games where villains take the focus to shine a spotlight on how unfair they have it in the face of heroes with plot armor (or to show how overpowered villain characters are fun to play as I guess), Lego Batman and Lego DC Supervillains come to mind since I'm a nerd, but besides that there's Destroy All Humans, and probably some other examples proving that this game isn't 100% unique in those elements, of course. Overall, an amazing experience, especially for how small of a game it is, the way it tells the story of the queen and the player guy is awesome, and the one area of the game looks beautiful. The way you snap away the corpse of the player again and again, and the queen never even getting to sit back down before the player shows up again, perfectly drive home the point of the monotony of the repeated task. The blood on the floor from all the previous battles and the final form of the queen are such perfect extensions of the idea of this being an average videogame thing as well as being awesome touches to bring the polish level all the way up.