Vernal Edge

Just not much fun for me. character is really "floaty" which make it harder than it should be to traverse the map. restart point too far away from bosses, no option to lower difficulty without restarting from scratch. bosses have too much health (they hit you for 75% of your health bar, you hit them for 1% of their health bar. just frustrating, and not even the fun kind of frustrating,..

Unintuitive exploration, poor enemy variety. Got stuck a little bit and realized that I just didn't care about the game enough to go around the islands another time. Combo system is cool, but outside of when there are multiple enemies you aren't really incentivized to do anything other than the one combo you normally do.

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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.

A great time from start to finish and one of the best Metroidvanias I've played. The music was a treat for the ears and the pixel art is wonderful. A lot of people have mentioned having issue with navigation, but I never had any problems figuring out where to go. My only real negative is that the game does have some technical problems, mostly Vernal getting stuck on terrain sometimes. 10/10 game, give it a try!

Хорошая игра с крутой боёвкой, мб лучшая боёвка в метроидваниях. Хороший пиксель арт, сюжет ну нормальный, может вам понравиться. в общем всё.

Vernal Edge is a mediocre Metroidvania with poor direction. Gave up on it 1.8 hours in. I like the premise and 2d graphics, and the ability to go to different floating worlds. But I hated the need to hunt down maps in unusual and sometimes impossible locations, the need to visit a harder island to get a powerup so you can leave it and explore an easier island, the PS1 graphics of the overworld, the controls in general, and how there's not much variance in the enemies. Kept dying and wandering blindly until it was no longer fun. Might give a second chance in the future when I'm more masochistic.

Some rough edges in terms of areas feeling a bit... abandoned, but that's part of the lore and gives the game a haunting vibe. Very well made combat and comboing, movement is slick when you master it tho the player is never actually told how to double jump when they do get the ability, music/pixel art/story are nice... I think the biggest issue is that there's not many people who've played it and a lot would get scared away by the relatively low score, so there's not much of a community for a game that you'd think would have a big speedrunning group. Like, the subreddit is dead and the main metroidvania reddit doesn't like it for some reason so it feels lonely to play it. Still, a VERY unique experience you won't get elsewhere. I highly recommend it.

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Vernal Edge done. 2nd run, the first time I arrr it and got so horribly lost that I abandoned it. Game was hard even on Normal, it has an excellent combat system but you'll fail a lot until mastering it. Fungal Mines' song made me buy it and try it again. Painful, 7/10. Okay so why a 7? Because I liked it, but the platforming is sometimes really painful. Combat is super fun and the spells/memories management is great, exploration is rewarded, but some rewards from some challenges are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Music wise? I don't like some, that's normal, but I absolutely LOVE others, specially Fungal Mines, one of the best songs I've ever heard on a metroidvania + when you're in combat the music changes, that earns a lot of points and cheers from me. I really would've liked something to help me find the secrets, something that would beep when near one or something because damn, I really, REALLY wanted to nurture that flower... I lost many secrets as well seeing the achievements, shame, I explored a lot. That said, I recommend the game if you're looking for a fun metroidvania with lots of exploration, a cool lore that I enjoyed and man I love Vernal, I love her rudeness, I love how she takes ♥♥♥♥ from no one but still has a soft side. Her reasons are valid, her hate is unlimited. Support the developers of Vernal Edge and enjoy, steam sale is coming soon so grab an indie or two.