Lots of things are quite funny about this game.
First and foremost, searching through the few games published by this developer you'll read about Legacy of Medieval (is this even English?) which has a precise release date: November 25th, 2021.
I'm writing as of the first half of 2018, so well.. at least we've got some precision here. Not the usual "within some months" or simply "in arrivo" (wondering how's translated that in English, since I use the Steam client in Italian.. probably like "incoming, we don't know when but eventually it will become purchasable"). No, we've got to wait for 4 years but surely it will be worth it.
Yagzz! is presented to us as a "cool, platformer" (sic.) by Exciting Games (well, it's not customary to be humble xD) and you're gonna face a cartoonish and full-screen first page completely written in Russian by default - only by randomly clicking through the Cyrillic letters you'll find that the English menu is the middle upper option: the lower ones make you choose from hard to easy.
The rest of the buttons are the usual Google Play ones - leaderboards and achievements - with the nice glitch that actually makes the "cup" button an exit one - click on it and you'll be automatically out of the game.
The gamepad button tells you the controls, not remappable: directional keys or WASD to move, "double space bar" to jump and the W key labeled as "alt. jump" (sic.).
The E key is assigned as "action" but you'll have to click on the ! sign on the left side to read it (don't know why, they could have put a right arrow)..
After another crash gave to me by clicking on the Play button (everything is clearly directly ported from the mobile phone) you'll have to select a level from the usual grid and start finally this platformer.
By the way the soundtrack is the same one of the meme with the cat playing the keyboard 20 years ago, just rendered a little bit slower.
You'll be in control of a sort-of ninja (looks like a poor Noob Saibot from the SNES era) and you'll soon get used to the strange controls - the W key (alt. jump) simply means that you can jump two times, in order to climb on the walls and do the normal Megaman things. I still don't get the spacebar thing, it does the same jump as W so.. why adding three keys for jumping if you're playing with WASD keys only?
Anyways, apart from the extremely crappy music that completely does not fit with a platformer, the game is really really bad.
The graphics are awful - witches and other enemies are simply MS Paint figurines that will float randomly towards you, let alone spikes, lasers (I mean, yellow bold lines) and other things.
If you touch or your messy hitbox touches something bad like an enemy or spikes and such, you'll instantly respawn from the beginning with no life bars or health points. Which makes everything quite annoying.
Your goal will be simply to obtain all the glowing orbs in a level and go through the red one at the end; you can kill the enemies only by jumping over them since you don't have weapons and on the other side if you kill them one by one and keep on respawing they won't respawn with you, leaving you with just the spikes and other things to avoid.
There will be a single bar on the upper left side of the screen, telling you how many orbs you've collected - nothing else.
The fact that the levels have automatic checkpoints though is nice, even if you are never told if you got to them or not, but overall the game is extremely easy - but I don't suggest you to go on hard since it seems that checkpoints are removed, but the game's difficulty (i.e.: levels and monsters) are the same.
Anyways, apart from this, the game is extremely boring even if it has 30 levels.
The game store page isn't funny, it's just stupid. You're told that you're 1- a dark knight 2- an afroamerican guy (sic.) that has to collect enemy souls (the orbs). But there is no story in the game, you just have to collect orbs and jump around, you can die 500 times and respawn with no lives or nothing else.
I found the whole thing really annoying. The enemies are always the same ones, and if you jump on them you get no animation - they just disappear from the screen forever. And the levels look all the same, with crappy graphics that confuse you and make it hard to understand what's the background and what are platforms and walls to climb.
Even if through the levels there will be some changes of backgrounds and settings, the whole thing just keeps on looking like a crappy mobile phone platformer and for more than 3€/$ such a game is really not recommended.
Had it costed like 0,99€/$, it could have been a so-so time waster (I still would not recommend it due to the shortness of the game, the lack of difficulty and the crappy controls).. but this price is really too high.
You can't even adjust the window screen, so that spikes and enemies will look pixelated and it's all really so so messy - I like indie games, but this one took the whole thing really too far.
There will be levels with just rotating saws and spikes as enemies, or level simply that can be finished in a minute. And the addition of the action key, E, adds actually nothing to the game itself - it's needed just for opening doors and nothing special.. like stopping some rotating saws.
The backgrounds as I said will always be extremely crappy, making it very difficult to distinguish where you can land, where are the spikes and where you can make use of the S key in order to get to the lower level.
All in all, this could pass as a free mobile game but really spending more than 3 bucks for such a mess with crappy controls, stupid graphics and overall nothing pleasant it's crazy in my opinion and I'd never recommend this game to anyone. It's an attempt of an indie (very indie) platformer, that ultimately ended in a bad way due to big problems related to controls, enemies, difficulty, checkpoints, even the soundtrack and effects are so so bad..
No, this isn't really the kind of indie game I like. Not at all. And well, it will take you at most 2 hours to finish it all from the beginning to its end, 30 levels of which 10 are probably doable in a minute and the other ones in tons of automatic respawns and free retrials.
And witches, seals, balls and such aren't cute monsters as they say, they're actually the figurines we bought in the street markets in the '90s. See the screnshots by yourselves.. xD
To avoid.
