The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

What a striking game. I found it incredibly impressive how much you managed to express with the deliberately restrictive art style. In the short time I had with the game I rarely found myself not understanding what was happening on screen. My only point of criticism is the font on the intro text was borderline unreadable, I appreciate the attempt to recreate a retro feeling text box, but I think you might have gone slightly too far with it and an option to use a more modern font would make the game more accessible.

This game is an utter eye sore, and it's beautiful. Designed to feel like a remaster of a (corrupted) CGA game from the 80s, it brings back to life a retro experience that is really unique, not just because the limited graphics feel novel to modern eyes, but also because it creates a strange dichotomy where you both see the game world, and don't quite see the game world. Everything is recognizable, and at the same time, you never actually see the world like it truly is. This creates an air of mystique that wouldn't have been there if the game had detailed graphics, and engages your imagination. The game is a cinematic platformer, with all that it entails (clunky movement). It straddles the line between being a bit of a chore to play, and being properly challenging, and it manages not to cross that line. Overall, I'm strangely glad this game is "only" 4 hours long, so I don't have to look at its ugly face and suffer through the clunky controls, and also wish there was more of it, and would happily play a sequel. In conclusion, it's a unique game with a clear artistic vision that is well executed, and at only 4 hours of playtime, there's no reason not to give it a try.

The game looks really cool but has hard to read text at the start, and feels verry clunky to play due to its really low frame rate (its an intentional stylistic choice), theres also no modern optimisations like snapping or quick turning so every time you are walking to the left you have to stop dead in your tracks, move right and then jump to the ledge on top of you rather than just jumping whilst moving left and snapping to the ledge and moving forward, gameplays just slow and tedious and gunplay is simplistic yet overly difficult and quite frustrating. if you are into this sort of thing its probably a good game but it really wasnt for me and it all just feels too dated to be enjoyable.

What a blast! Incredible jump in the past. If you love Another World/Flashback go for it immediately! Beautiful art style and sound design, fantastic OST. The main game it's hard but fair, the Lost Tales mode (after end game) it's very hard, but still very good and add another few hours to the gameplay. Overall, a little masterpiece!

Divertido, estiloso e um pouco bugado. Jogo curto, mas bom!

its good

优秀的平台动作游戏，极简的像素风给了玩家更多想象的空间，同时也生动地描绘了废土风格的赛博朋克世界，但高饱和度和颜色对比强烈的画面看久了让眼睛很累，音乐优秀，人物动作流畅，但可能是为了追求真实人物的动作会带有惯性，需要适应。在能接受一些缺点的情况下这款优秀简直就是艺术品。

Що я можу сказати, гра дуже стильна ніби взяли і вичавили все можливе з 8 бітної графіки. Вона дуже мила для ока, але є одна проблема, не в ворогах чи складності а в тяжкому керуванні і всю гру ви будете боротись з ним, якщо подужаєте то вона принесе вам задоволення. Хто його знає можливо якби вона була довша на пару годин я б розбив би джостик об стіл.

想法真的很好，蛋疼是真的蛋疼。

[b]"mode con codepage prepare=((850) cga.cpi)"[/b] ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 🟩 great visuals, audio and animations 🔶 partially designed around replaying, prince of persia movement 🔴 unskippable cutscenes [b]vibes:[/b] faux remake cga nostalgia [b]loop:[/b] prince of persia like cinematic adventure platformer, explore varying areas and fight enemies with occasional bossfight [b]thoughts:[/b] this is a very neat experience, its heavily style focused as a cinematic platformer with all its rotoscoped visuals and animations and with its distinct appearance of cga graphics switching back and forth between palettes of cyan/pink and green/red. there's quite a lot of combat, a little too much, but it all felt fine, and some boss fights that mostly aren't very difficult but it was fairly annoying that if you died you'd have to go through their unskippable intro cutscene again. i was also a little frustrated sometimes with the controls around platforming but i guess that's part of the genre they're emulating with the movement animations. it looks nice, loved some of the set pieces. its a fun playthrough. [b]verdict:[/b] i quite like this, it was a neat experience, though i don't really feel the urge to replay this at least not right now [b]score:[/b] ⭐ / 🏰 out of 🩷 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3505814430