The Masked Mage

[h1]follow my curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33882793/]GenXPlayers[/url] for more retro and indie reviews[/h1] I was attracted to this game because the character reminded me of chakan the forever man on megadrive. It turns out the sprite in the promo video was actually ripped from chakan (it has been replaced since). There are possibly more graphics borrowed from other places. The game didn't start from steam because of a bug. I had to start it from outside steam, and then the menu doesn't appear unless you press "enter", then there is no explnation or ways to change the controls. Once you manage to play, the levels are almost empty and the rare enemies have really simplistic patterns. You just walk until you find keys to unlock new areas. If you're still tempted to buy, take a look at the game's discussions first.

The Masked Mage bills itself as "a slow-paced, peaceful metroidvania game," but the only way a player could actually interpret this would be as an aimless, meandering, empty platformer with vaguely metroidvania-like progression. This game consistently commits the cardinal sin of having the player walk extremely lengthy, empty areas, doing nothing but hold a direction for absurd lengths of time. Enemies are sparse (and poorly-designed), level design is haphazard and thoughtless, and combat is an afterthought - your weapon appears to do damage upon collision with enemies even if you're not attacking or swinging it at all. The movement feels tight and the pixel art is quite beautiful, but those are about all this game really has going for it. Upon researching this developer a bit more, I see that they also developed The Skylia Prophecy and the Citadale games, which are equally forgettable. I'm beginning to wonder if this developer is some sort of asset-flip factory that just cranks out garbage for a quick profit. I would generally recommend avoiding this and other games by this developer. Find more reviews and recommendations on my Steam Curator page, Indie Infinitesimal: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41769714/

O jogo parece ser da hora, só parece... Logo que inicia você vê as configurações de controle do game, por um lado é ruim porque aparentemente são fixos os botões e não da pra alterar, por outro é bom, porque é compatível com controle... Foi isso que pensei kkkkkk, mas a realidade é que o controle não funciona, independente da configuração que eu colocar nos controles do Steam. O jogo é bem vazio, vai encontrar poucos inimigos por cenário (pelo menos no incio, porque eu não aguentei jogar mais pelo teclado sem poder configurar pelo menos da forma que eu me sinto mais confortável). Conclusão, não comprem isso.

O jogo é simples mas bem difícil, infelizmente é muito parado se comparado com outros jogos do estilo. É um bom jogo mas pode faltar ação para alguns jogadores que gostam de jogos mais rápidos. A trilha sonora é bem legal, imersiva no ambiente. Os controles também são bons. Recomendado no geral. Quem quiser ver um pouco mais do game, fiz uma live mostrando pros meus seguidores: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/420943601

Looks great fore a retro vibe, but it was quite boring to be honest. Lots of running around with no platforming, monsters or anything to make it interesting. And you'd run one way for awhile, find you cant progress and run back (which is normal for metroidvania) but with the lack of content/stimuli ...doubley boring.

主人公と妖精のアセットを他社製品からコピーしてきているように見えます。 ゲーム自体も以下の点で致命的な問題があるので購入は絶対に止めた方がいいです。 ・体力の回復方法が有限のアイテムしかなく、セーブポイントで自動回復はないです。 ・マップは単純にスイッチを見つけて押すと次のマップへ行けるのでいく、いった先でアイテムがあると 　一部アイテムを利用すると破壊、通過できる場所を進むだけで今のところボスも何も出てきません。 ・セーブポイントは、最初の1つ以外は隠すように配置しているためわかりにくいです。 ・敵から体力を回復するなどのアイテムが一切でません。 一番の問題は、体力を回復する手段がないため、序盤からオワタ式になるというハードコアゲームなため クソゲー大好きという人以外は受け入れられるものではないです。 ※ただし、クソゲー配信としては需要があると思います。

This game's main features if soft lock! Soft lock by using up your single use heal pickups while the enemies endlessly respawn. Using the heal button does not fill up X amount of health, instead you'd better hope your fairy friend is flittering close enough to you to catch some of the pixie dust. Sometimes it fills one tick, sometimes it fills five. Save points do not fill up health but they do spawn an invulnerable bad guy with homing missiles who can kill you in just a few hits, while you're trying to save. Soft lock because normal progression abilities use magic that refills incredibly slow but can be drained in just a few seconds by accidentally standing too close to a waterfall. You are a wizard who only has the smallest reach melee attack. While most of the enemies move along the floor where your attack is unreliable. The map is the strangest thing I've seen in a long time. You pick up pieces of hand drawn 3D diagrams but the line art looks like it was created at 100x100 resolution then blown up to pixelated hell. Almost every gameplay choice is baffling and counterproductive to an exploration adventure. Its a shame because the art and music are terrific.

VERY bare bones type of game. Your character is slow and has exactly one "bonk" move at the start at least and most of the time you'll wind up getting hit when you try to hit an enemy. Thankfully the enemies die in one hit so far anyways though. Healing is also jank because it relies on picking up pixie dust and having your little fairy friend sprinkle it on you... which very easily misses, and even when it does land it heals very little. Save points also do not heal either. While nice looking and has an interesting story premise so far I suspect it will be a slog to finish. I'm going to hit no on the recommendation only because so far I don't feel like it's worth 10 USD at full price, but I got it on sale at 90% off and as part of a bundle with The Skylia Prophecy which I already planned to get so I effectively only paid about 33 cents for it. I will certainly update my review once I complete the game as well, but as it is I certainly wouldn't pay 10 bucks for this.

Metroidvania con poche pretese. Il livello di sfida non sono tanto i nemici, quanto invece orientarsi e trovare i cancelli da sbloccare per andare avanti nella storia. Se vi piace il genere e non siete troppo pretenziosi, vi consiglio l'acquisto, vi farà trascorrere qualche ora in relax!

eu senti que era um walking simulator versão 2d