Vernal Edge

It's another one of those games where every decision was made against the player. Enemy hurtboxes are huge, they can 180 in a single frame so dodging behind is impossible, they continue attacks through being stunned, and all enemies have a massively inflated health pool but you die in 2 hits. Regular attacks do basically no damage and don't stagger, so as far as I can tell, there's literally no reason to use them ever. Charged attacks charge in like 1 second, do like 5x the damage, and take one of the enemies' 2 or 3 or 5 stagger points. The combat more or less amounts to running around and spamming the charge attack. Some magic is ok and may be useful, but the Vernal Edge attacks leave you wide open and cannot be canceled out of. They're so long that even if you use one immediately upon stunning an enemy, they will often recover and then hit you while the animation is playing out.

A hidden gem I stumbled upon while looking for cheap games this summer sale. Lovely spritework, great soundtrack, fun movement, and good lord, the combat. The fighting is actually so good and varied. You get to deal really sick combos, get new spells to do even cooler stuff, get new ways to defend. If you like metroidvanias, get it. It's really good.

I have attempted playing this game several times and each time It just doesn't capture me in the slightest. To me a big thing about metroidvanias is movement, combat, and exploration and this game fails on the first two. The movement is ok at best. It's just serviceable enough to get around and there's probably more funner movement options later on, but when I got the worst double jump I have ever seen it went from a bad game to god awful. If I recall it only works in specific situations, like hugging a wall or on special torches. I can't recall too well cause I memory holed it since it was just not fun to use. The combat is pure bonk simulator. The hits feel like doo doo, the sound effects are BONK - as in the hit sound would be more appropriate for a hammer or club type weapon. It may sound like I'm nitpicking but when the game revolves heavily around BORING combat arenas where you have to deeply involve yourself with the combat mechanics to properly deal with the enemies it really shows just how BONKerific the game is. Beyond that the hits feel like a wet noodle. Total snoozefest. The exploration from what I saw was actually extremely good! When the flow state hits the world is quite a joy to explore and move around in. I know I just got done ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the double jump - which is absolutely heinous, I would love to hear examples of a worse double jump - but the dashes and general exploration are the best the game has to offer. Also the main character is annoying. Just grating to be grating, I have no idea what their goal is with her cause I'm not gonna SLOG through her attitude. Every time the helper robot guy tries to be the helper robot guy all it gets in return is angst. It gets so one dimensional that I started wondering how much of an ass hat she will be in any given dialogue. Look I just don't like characters that are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to the helpful sidekicks without good reason.

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This game sucked. [list] [*]The combat was beyond bland; basically one attack and one viable spell. [*]The controls would occasionally stop working (and only *some* controls and not all at once, so I know it's not the controller) [*]The platforming was pretty bad; the detection on many surfaces was frustrating, especially because speed matters in many sections [*]Enemies and bosses were mostly sponges; some attacks have an infinitesimal dodge / block window [*]The music was mostly good except for one of the ending (supposedly climactic) songs that's an anime version of the Tom Green Show theme [*]The story is oh-so-freakin'-tired. I don't care about stories anyway, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥... [*]Incessant backtracking if you want to clear areas, but it's a Zeldavania, so what did I expect? [*]There aren't upgrades in this game, which is fine, but anything you find / buy is pretty inconsequential. [/list] The graphics and music were good, controls were snappy, so it wasn't frustrating to play for the most part, but so much of the machinery of what makes this genre good just isn't there. For what it's worth, Metroids and Hollow Knight are also terrible, so there's that.

it's not a bad metroidvania , if i could i'll give it a neutral review but the combat it's garbage, all spells and attacks are awful and do almost no damage, the memory system (passives) are useless too except for the typical metroidvania movement abilities

If Vernal Edge is so good where is Vernal Edge 2? 🤔