TUNIC

First game that made me bust out a document to take notes

tunic? mu bueno mu bueno mu bueno

just such a fun little game

Really fun game mechanics and a really engaging combat. When people say this is like Zelda and Dark Souls, they are correct on that front. Most of problems with Tunic come down to I what considered its main draw, Tunic's unique language (looking it up, its referred to as 'Trunic' so I'll be calling it that from now on.) Browsing through some reviews critical of this feature, a lot of people often lament that they cannot understand it and wished for a sort of 'tool' that translates the text. This is where I have to heavily disagree, my criticism for Trunic is how it's surprisingly optional it is for reasons I'll get into later. Throughout my experience, I was never forced nor challenged to play on the game's terms and learn the language incrementally; instead, most of the required information of where to go, what mechanics you need to learn to beat the game are either shown visually or, shockingly, told to me in plain English. While I am now aware that a lot of the late-game side puzzles require the learning of the Trunic language, by the time I found myself faced with these massive obstacles, I did not have a single idea how to even begin and resorted to looking up guides after I had simply enough. Sadly, from what I've gathered, I have a feeling that this was intentional on the game developers part, to have a community to come together and solve these mysteries which I assume was very fun when Tunic initially released but, nowadays, this just lead me to just looking guides and finding the world feeling foreign and I just don't find that fun. This resulted with me not enjoying a lot of the story, worldbuilding, and characters as much as I could've. I think a lot of indie games have this fear of frustrating the player and leads to the neutering of what would be interesting concepts; I think Tunic is one of these games unfortunately and leaves a fun game with a very dull world.

Incredible ode to snes Zelda. Such a modern and brilliant take with lots of great improvements. This sets a new gold standard for zelda games.

Génial !