The Girl from Arkanya

This game is an absolute delight. I cannot understate how much I adore this game. Its a Zelda-like that has a talking magical Capybara as a helper. It was a lot of fun to play and the vibe is amazing, reminding me how much I like cute Zelda-likes as a genre. I will say it is not a game without flaws. Those boil down to the combat is not terribly challenging, it has a pretty dumb runback mechanic (Which is offset by the combat difficulty), and there is a weird lack of dungeon maps, as well as some minor bugs. However, I personally do not find these fatal flaws because the art, music, and writing feel targeted at me and brought me great joy and has such great personality, and it has a lot of pretty good puzzles too. There was only one I felt poorly done, but I get why they did it, and it was navigable, just tedious. This is currently my 'Game of the Year' as classified by games I played for the first time this year, similarly how I felt about Crypt Custodian around this time last year. Took me 12.5 hours to roll credits on stream, and I will likely go back and 100%, or at least get all of the puzzles. It's an adventure, ja?

aint nothing but a good day to adventure with a jug of beer and cheese while looting the nature! very great adventure game akin to old school zelda games now with co-op! not too long nor short that dosent overstay its welcome and can be fully completed if ya want its nice

Very good game, comparable to Minish Cap in many ways. It has relatively simple combat, although the special attack/energy system makes the flow of it enjoyable. The puzzle types are pretty neat, mostly dealing with using your dungeon items to move around or put one of your two characters onto certain switches. Lots of little caves to explore hidden around the map to find some secrets and collectibles. Really, no complaints here. If you like top-down zelda games, this is one of the good ones. ...Also, Marisa is such a funny protagonist. Playtime: About ~16 hours to 100%, including the time I spent just wandering around listening to the music or revisiting areas to make sure I hadn't missed anything.

Cute little game. Had a nice journey. It was an adventure, ja!

I saw the people claiming the game was too difficult, anyone who thinks that should feel ashamed of themselves. I didn't even bother wasting time figuring out the weaknesses of bosses, it was quicker to pound everything into submission with my sword while I drank health potions nonstop. If you're porting this to the Switch, the current difficult level is probably fine, children are the target audience for that console. I'd probably recommend a higher difficulty level for the steam version though. Really, all you'd have to do is take away the healing potions and I would have to fight the bosses fairly.

Overall I'd recommend it, though it did have some problems I feel could have been addressed. I enjoyed the unique setting and story. It had nice pixel art and music. Most of my issues stem from what I see as lack of quality of life decisions. You can only have 2 items in your hot bar at a time and it's a bit annoying to have to constantly swap between them. The game doesnt use all the buttons on the controller (LB & RB are unused) and I feel more items could have easily been added to them. The treasure inventory is also a bit of a hassle in the same vein, either the treasure inventory is too small or the merchant should be quicker/closer to fast travel points to sell your stuff. Felt like needless backtracking to sometimes have to stop what you're doing and have to seek out a merchant to sell your items. My final nitpick would be adding a way to run/roll/speed up in some way. This might not be needed if the other 2 issues were fixed, but regardless I think would help. But despite those issues, I still think the game is definitely worth playing due to it's uniqueness. I mainly bring up those small problems because they seem easily fixable, and would add a lot to the game. I look forward to the devs next game.

Really fun Zelda-like game. While I feel it's on the short side, I honestly had a really good time with it.

oya bru. cute fun