Valkyrie Saga

Great platformer with a cozy and soothing feel. I spent a lto of time exploring, the challenges were fun with a nice soft souls like feel. Made me think of elden ring many times, but for kids ? (In a good way)

Enjoyable platforming. But there is a lot of jank. The city ruins you find later in the game have stone pathways that are part of the floor geometry, but you can get stuck in them. They have some sort of collision that causes the player to get stuck at random spots, and there's a lot of 'em! But this game being what it is, I say $8 was reasonable.

A bit janky but I quite liked this game. Music was nice and eventually being able to zoom around the map was neat.

Cute simple and fun platformer, fairly easy to end up skipping big chunks of the platforming but it somehow doesn't feel unintended, must try

Retro style platformer with fresh movement. It's not perfect (I found a way out of bounds in one of the side levels, the one that gives the guard ability and darkness spell, wasn't even a glitch, the wall was just too short and had a gap), but none of the problems so far have actually worsened my experience with the game. I really like the sprint, it's satisfying to use. I'd imagine the exploration could seem rather aimless for some, but so far I've had a pretty easy time of it. This game reminds me of a short hike in it's gameplay, with the upgrade system and main goal being similar. It also greatly reminds me of Psuedoregalia. That said, its certainly an original experience. So far it seems the lore is interesting, but I'm worried it might turn out to be darker than I'd like with the way the story goes. But I haven't actually made it that far yet, I think I might have found an unusual amount of the dark parts for how early into the game I am.

The game is excellent. Very satisfying exploration and platforming. The only complaint I have is that the dialogue boxes look kinda bad and while I didn't have an issue reading them, I could see someone else having a hard time. A solid color behind the text would be an easy fix.

Great game for any open world platforming fan. The flight system works similar to games like banjo kazooie where you can unlock more and access new areas by getting crystals to give you more air time. The visuals, dialogue, and music remind me a lot of Quest 64. Very interesting and addicting gameplay loop. Overall I had fun with it. I do have a few minor gripes though: You can randomly get completely stuck on the map. Usually not a big deal because you can press start and send yourself to the last save point but if this happens while you were progging some tough platform section then the situation becomes pretty damn painful. The game would not run in vulcan or w/e the default visual mode is. Was just a glitchy mess. It runs ok in open GL which is the other option. My issue with open GL is that it doesn't seem to run at consistent framerates. Depending on where I was facing Id see 40-50 fps. The open GL thing isn't the worst thing in the world but I did notice from other peoples screen shots that other peoples graveyard dungeon had a lot more light when my playthrough of the dungeon was essentially pitch black (and so annoying af) The last minor gripe is that I wish there was some type of tracking system with the quests or that you could mark the map. There was a few times I would get a quest item but had completely forgot who had asked for it. I wish I had taken some notes by the time I got to end game.

Valkyrie Saga, a very retro style platformer. Early style 3D platformers aren't really a genre I enjoy, I don't have nostalgia for it (I'm an NES/Genesis/SNES era kid and skipped the PS1/N64/GC/PS2 era for college and early career). I find the very low resolutions hard to see, harder to follow in motion, and I don't enjoy the oftentimes janky movement skill and combat mechanics of the time. That said, I did enjoy Valkyrie Saga. The movement mechanics were pretty responsive, and getting upgrades really felt well. The combat is as janky as I expect but it fits with the feel and aesthetic of the game, I tried to avoid most of it unless necessary. The speed you could get with upgrades was pretty great! There's a lot of content, I got the "normal" ending but there are others, some much more violent and grim. There a fair chunk I didn't do or find as well, so if you like exploration you will probably like it. In line of its retro aesthetics, you don't have things like a quest tracker, a detailed map, a list of NPC's, or anything besides environmental guidance. You will likely need to write things down you will need to come back to. I didn't write something down and never managed to find one of the npc's that wants orbs again after I initially found them (40 orbs one), There are a few issues with the game, there are a few places that'll get you stuck in terrain. This happened about 5 times through my full 8 hour play, and only once was I able to attack dash out. Every other time I had to use the return to last statue option (accessed from the prayer button). Finally the graphics and feel was a problem for my vertigo. I could only play for at most an hour at a time. At least unlike the games that inspired it, it has a consistent and good frame rate! There are some nice options for visibility, I just wish I could adjust the Field of View a bit more to make the fast and tight movements less dizzying. Overall, while there are issues and while it doesn't scratch my nostalgia, it's a decent game and worth picking up if you do like that era of games. Roll's also cute!