Vampire's Best Friend

i love it

Garlic goes well with tomato juice

It says metroidvania on the tags but it seems the only that upgrades is your irl skill. Refreshing and difficult.

This is an absolutely fantastic game in so many ways. The controls feel very strange and unintuitive at first, but the more you play, the more you realize just how well thought out every single part of the level design is. So many challenges are carefully crafted to require you to make the most out of your 5 second timer and push your understanding of the core systems in new and interesting ways. Collecting every garlic was a blast, and I'm excited to jump back in to try and get that 20 minute achievement!

Fun difficult platformer where the open exploration helps mitigate the frustration these kinds of games could have.

Highly recommended! Wonderful little game that takes a simple set of mechanics and wrings every bit of creativity from them. At a basic level, the game is very approachable and you'll be feeling like a natural in no time as you learn how to maneuver with your precious few seconds of flight. There are open-ended rooms that let you familiarize yourself with controlling the bat and, when you're more comfortable, others that will require and reward absolute precision. The game will be challenging in a few places, but you can roam around the map freely to carve your own path. Completing the game only requires about 2/3 of the game's collectibles to be gathered, after which point you can still continue to complete what remains for a bonus ending.

[h1]我是吸血鬼喜欢吃大蒜很正常吧？[/h1] 画质十分精美的像素精准平台游戏，通过不断吃大蒜来增长蝙蝠的滞空时间，每一瓣也只涨0.025秒，一整个4瓣只涨0.1秒，玩到现在我总共也才2.8秒滞空，海浪升降过弯还是不够时间，难度系数挺大，还有我恨弹弹花！

Vampire's Best Friend is one of those games that takes you by the shoulders and says "Hey. Look. I'm doing something different with the controls here, alright? It's not what you'll be expecting and it'll probably take at least 20 minutes before you really start moving with intentionality and it will almost certainly frustrate you… but just trust me, alright?" I did trust it. And I ended up loving it for being uncompromising in its difficult but ultimately masterable controls that massively enhanced what would have been a very easy experience otherwise. The premise of the game is that you're a bat flying through a mansion to try and collect enough garlic to save your vampire friend. However, you can't actually land on the ground, only on the ceiling, and your flight time is limited. So every movement must be calculated, not merely to get the collectables you need to clear the game, but simply to get around. Your only moves are flapping left and right (I suggest using the shoulder buttons) but the real bugaboo with this game is mastering the momentum, because it's key to everything. You really need to get a good grip on how you move, not just in the sense of what pressing the buttons does but how you speed up, how you slow down, the rate at which you pick up speed, how the angles you take will affect your ability to turn. It's really sophisticated stuff, frankly! You might be able to see a bulb of garlic and have an idea of how to nab it and safely land, but figuring out how you must move to do so is another thing entirely, and you might need to practice multiple approaches to see which ones are viable, if the way you're doing it is viable at all. The game never tells you the specifics either, you must intuit this yourself as you play. And I won't pretend there are some anger inducing moments, especially early on when you don't have a handle on the controls yet (since the game is open world, there's no real ramp-up of difficulty, it throws you in right away). But I'm someone who counts the original Balloon Fight as one of my favorites, so this is really the momentum-based flight platformer I've been begging for for years, without even really knowing it. It is incredibly satisfying to break through the barrier on some of these challenges, knowing I did it only with my skills acquired along the way. Aside from that, it does have that charming NES graphical style and music that, while certainly nothing new, are well done. The style clean enough to make it clear what you have to get through in order to beat the stages, and that's all it really need to be. Like I said, this is one of those games that demands a level of precision from you that you can't fake, and that's going to push some people away. But for a certain kind of platformer lover, you won't find a better challenge. 9 outta 10

at first i just liked it, but then the movement clicked, and i couldnt stop playing until i finished it. get past the small growing pains and you'll realize that one batformer isnt enough we need more.

Awesome, really fun little platformer with a clever and unique control scheme. Once you get a feel for the movement there's plenty of challenges to face and secrets to find. Charming pixel art, lovely music, short enough to knock over in a few hours though highly replayable, heartily recommend giving this a try!