Worldless

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Beautiful art style, pretty poorly-executed combat system. Boring, slow, irritating.

There are no words I can use that can quite explain what I feel about this game. In a way, it makes sense, considering it too uses minimal dialogue all around. But after exploring all it has to offer: I have never had an easier time recommending this game. Worldless is a metroidvania with "turn-based" combat. Its combat is actually one of its strongest points, because within your turn you're given control of a 2D-Fighting-Game style character, and can only do as much damage as you can combo actions together. After you're done, you must defend against the enemies. It's fluid, flashy and rewards good timing, with unlockable upgrades making the moves you can make even more awesome. Without spoiling anything, the game does have an interesting take on the "Two halves of one whole" storyline, even if it's plot is somewhat minimal. But to be honest, play this game because of the IRREPLACEABLE union between its fluid combat, incredible soundtrack and absolutely beautiful art. It might even teach you how to be better at 2D fighting games, who knows.

This game seemed really interesting, but it had a couple of problems I noticed right off the bat. First, the intro cutscene ran horribly. My best guess is that they decided not to make it prerendered for some reason. I was playing this off a laptop but even then I shouldn't be getting my frames per second turned into seconds per frame. Second, the gameplay was a little rough around the edges. The visuals were incredibly smooth, but the gameplay didn't match that at all. Moving felt awkward and as far as I could tell its impossible to buffer jumps. Third, the combat felt very clunky and poorly explained. I was told to press certain buttons to attack but the buttons shown didn't match the buttons I had to press. This is an issue I've been dealing with for a while, so I figured out what was going on pretty quickly, but the added confusion made learning the combat system far more confusing. I'm certain the combat gets more interesting, but the gameplay loop of mash the same button, mess up the parry timing, get hit, repeat isn't exactly very fun. While I was trying to quit to the menu, I stumbled across something that showed me a bunch of combos but by that point I had had enough due to the final issue. Finally, the biggest problem I had and the one that made me quit the game. I mentioned it a bit in the previous paragraph but the game showed the wrong buttons, both in the tutorials and in the absorption minigame. Instead of A it would show B, instead of B it would show A, instead of X it would show Y, and instead of Y it would show X. As mentioned previously, this is a recurring issue. In most games it's just a mild inconvenience but with how confusing this game was already this made the game unplayable for me. I'm using a nintendo pro controller which is probably the source of the problem.

Maybe it gets more interesting later on, but the gameplay feels lackluster. The combat is okay but too easy personally, and the platforming is downright boring

nice game, but I m stuck. its pretty tricky with fights and level design.