The Waste Land

I've never had SUCH A BAD TIME with a metroidvania as I had with this game! Everything it tries to do, does it wrong. The gameplay is totally broken, the graphics are confusing and uninspired, the repetitive short loops of boring music for dozens of minutes wil drive you nuts, the level design isn't interesting AT ALL... you don't get satisfaction nor gratification with any action in the game. Everything that makes a metroidvania a great, satisfying game, this game does wrong. Avoid at all costs.

I was hoping to like this game. I decided that I would put it down and play it later when I had more time to get into it. It was then that I realized there was no way to exit the game properly. You have to minimize and force quit.

I wanted to like this game so bad, but there isn't even the courtesy of a game over screen. If you die you literally have to exit to the main menu. Can't program a reset button? Really?

Busted old game that got abandoned by it's devs and producers. Can barely manage to get the controls to work, and even then there are so many broken instant death and OP boss moments, it really doesn't make the game worth playing. Better off with a more polished Metroidvania title.

Another review says the follwing about this game: '[...]if you [i]were[/i] a fan of old metroidvanias, you will like this game'. In a way, they get it right, but also wrong. I definitely [i]was[/i] a fan of them long ago(twenty or so years), but it takes a lot of charm for me to like games that capture too many of the elements that I hate about the games from my childhood. I really wanted to like this game(paid full price; Engl. nerd), but it was 'meh'. I can deal with games that emulate the feel of fourth generation console games(slightly sluggish controls make timing essential, etc, etc), but this game didn't do it for me. I recall the enemies being particularly unimpressive. I guess that about sums up my experience with this game: unimpressive and lacking charm. If I was stuck somewhere where could sit in idle thought or play this game, I'm sure that I'd enjoy playing it after tiring of idle thought.

Не плохая игра, правда для тех кто не знаком с таким жанром, будет трудно освоиться.

обоже, как меня уже достала эта игра вечно агрящиеся монстры, вечно летящие за тобой мухи, бабочки, шарики солдаты, вы ахринели? я вообще то тут мир спасаю! а все почему? о, что это, алень? обоже, он белый! какие странные рога! это олень-альбинос? интересно, какое у него мясо? дай ка чикну его! и о нет, везде летающий дед-умник с его а*?:?*%тельными советами, как королю жить дальше. ммм, дааа, однозначно 10 летающих дедов из 10

If you want something like Castlevania 2, but a little more modern, here you go. Plays a lot like a forgotten NES game, and I mean that in the best way possible.

3,9 из 10

Not Recommended