The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight

definitely one of the games I´ve played of all time abandonware, the only reason you should buy this is to listen to the single worst OST of all time

The Joylancer is a game that feels like it has all the potential in the world. It's a gameboy color styled retro game that aims to for high speed and high precision combat. It did not like up to that goal when i first played in 2015, and it still leaves me disappointed. The Joylancer has a very complicated control scheme for two buttons in an attempt to create deep, high-skill combat. You have dozens of different moves that can launch you up, or down, or counterattack, or block etc. But in practice, I always find my best success in tactical button spam rather than skillful moves. Everything is moving too fast for me to respond to, I'm vastly outnumbered, the limited color schemes make it hard to identify enemy vs attack vs. background and the damage you suffer from getting hit is high. Random button spam gives a high chance of counterattacks and normal stuns. Sure, a high skill player may have room to show off but, for me, button mash was the way to go. (It didn't help that combat ranks seemed random to me and high spam seemed to offer me higher ranks) You do get some real good feelings during some of the boss battles. Unlike normal enemies, the large sprites make it easier to read and react to moves, and the lack of a dozen enemies lets you focus on the fight. It was in these battles that I felt like I understood what the developer was going for and I loved it for just a moment. At the end of the day, the level of polish and the heart that was put into the game is obvious but not enough to save it. It definitely fell short to me on all fronts and considering I've waited 5 years to give up on it... I don't have high hopes on any possible final release actually blowing me away.

Jogo em eterno acesso antecipado. Desenvolvedor abandonou o jogo

Jeu non terminé et tout buggué, même si vous choisissez un système de difficulté en jeu, cela ne change rien, de plus le tutoriel en jeu est mal fait et incompréhensible. La carte des niveaux est vide. Normal le jeu n'est pas terminé et est en Accès anticipé depuis 2014. De plus la direction artistique style Gameboy Color est mal retranscrit ce qui fait que les couleurs font mal à la tête (n'importe lesquelles qui sont proposé). Le pire c'est la musique c'est du bruit 8-bit dégueulasse qui fait vomir des notes de façons étrange et mal placé à certains endroits. Le jeu peut parfois planter, si cela arrive faites une vérification des fichiers, même après première installation, cela règle tous les soucis de plantage.

At first glance, this game looks awesome; however though, the controls with the Nintendo Switch controller are just awful. You get stuck in menus without any real clear way of existing, only to get further stuck. I had to alt+F4 to exit the game because I couldn't find the "select" or "A" button to progress through menus. Not intuitive.

the games great the controls are great the music is killing me so pretty much its good

This game looks like something I should absolutely love but the soundtrack is so grating I'll never really know.

[h1]The [i]Annoy[/i]lancer[/h1] First, mute the music. Breathe. Yes, as you may have gathered from other reviews, [i]Joylancer[/i] has bad music. It's really bad. Confusingly bad. [url=https://youtu.be/ekQ_CTdCt_o]Even all of Joylancer's music played at once sounds just about as good as the actual intended soundtrack[/url]. But music can be muted, and there's no point founding a review entirely on one single shortcoming. The other shortcomings are yet to come. Joylancer is reminiscent of Megaman, but with hack n' slash elements. Similar to [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/535480/Sundered_Eldritch_Edition/]Sundered[/url] at certain points you are locked into a cordoned-off section of the stage and forced to kill a set number of enemies to continue progressing. Graphically, the game is rather pretty, with a decent variety of enemies, all stylistically presented as 16-bit animated sprites. There are numerous palletes to choose from, allowing for you to customize the feel of the gameplay, and tailor the experience to the particular nostalgic gaming experience you wish to replicate. Alas, [b]T H E A F O R E M E N T I O N E D S H O R T C O M I N G S[/b] [olist] [*]Joylancer insists on options for everything, often leading to screens looking like clustered pre-Y2K webpages. It feels rather like the illusion of complexity since... [*]...the gameplay is surprisingly simple. You can button mash and still get almost perfect grades every level. Speaking of levels... [*]...there aren't particularly many and the map doesn't care to signpost where to go next at any point. There are dozens of empty areas, which seem to serve little purpose but to prolong the journey between stages. The whole map feels distinctly unfinished. Which is probably why... [*]...this game was released as an [i]Early Access (shudder)[/i], a business practice now unfortunately synonymous with abandonware and shoddy craftsmanship. And, make no mistake, this game is certainly abandonware. The developers made claims of an intended release date from Early Access, yet never followed through. What they've left behind feels distinctly like a beta version, not a finished product. [/olist] Joylancer showed a lot of potential in many regards. That's probably why it made it through to Early Access: on a promise. At this stage, it looks like most of the promises the developers made will never be fulfilled, and it's not worth the purchase for the 20 minutes of fun it offers. 3/10