Recent reviews by Jack0

This game has no right to turn worst mechanic in Resident Evil into a core gameplay loop of GOTY 2024

I really wanted to like this. At the time of writing this review I have beaten pretty much 100% of what's there to beat.

Goodies:

Soundtrack - Kinda slaps, ngl

Concept art - When it's good, it's a nice change of pace to what's typical

Mixed opinion:

Movement - really great time to time, makes me wish more attention was given to level layout and where each jump actually lands

Combat - Spam spam, but I've had a few "whoa you can do this?" -kind of genuinely awesome moments, which I can't with a good conscience say were designed, but very rewarding nonetheless when they happened

My issues:
Bugs, lots of bugs.

Soft locks - there are quite a few, most notably when using skip dialogue -button you can easily soft lock your game and lose all progress since your last save. These soft locks just make you unable to control your character range from permanently immobilizing your character until you re-boot your game, to just forcing you to go back to Sanctuary.

Autosave - Doesn't actually save in between each level, and doesn't save checkpoints in level

Broken achievement - There is the "Return to me" -achievement which at the writing of this review doesn't actually work.

Inconsistent character art - Is your main character a twiggy loli, teenager or a thicc dumptruck, we simply don't know.

Enemies - most can be just skipped, as the obvious main way of farming money is the 2-3 boss

Movement mechanics - Everything that bounces you has this insane acceleration which makes you most of the time overshoot your landing if you are used to precise platforming. Levels overall just lack the polish to make speedrunning a game like this feel like something I'd want to do.

Combos - For whichever reason combos reward a flat amount of money and it caps at 20 coins. Seems like a wasted potential. How combos actually work is a mystery is not also explained.

Inconsistent difficulty - Most of the difficulty parts of the game feel like they were oversight due to lack of gameplay testing, and compared to how easy the game is, there are a few really odd moments here and there. Yes, I'm looking at you, autoscroller level.

Story - Just a lot of non-sense, not that I was expecting much. It's weird though how none of the sexual relationships seem to make any sense, they just kinda happen.

Wasted potential - I do genuinely think, that with a bit of level/enemy layout tweaking, bug fixes and consistent artwork this could be a great game. And if the devs ever decide to put extra effort in, I hope you do some extra challenge where the movement speed from chaining hits is actually utilized.

Surprisingly good, very easy learn and seems to have an infinite skill cap. Important to note that at the time of writing this, the game is at a point where it's possible to experiment in PVP, theorycrafting hasn't ruined this game.

Words don't do justice to how badly they butchered the writing in this game. The final blow for me was Tiny Tina. They massacred her.

Just don't buy this game if you have played BL2 or care about writing even in the slightest.

Great platformer with a ton of homage to other great platformers. High production values in the audiovisual aspects and spot on controls.

Played this together with my daughter and to me, it would appear to be the only high quality game with a small girl as the protagonist.
Only complaints that I have is that for a game that is (probably) aimed for little children, this one is definitely too scary and also might be a tad too tough to complete.

Tried in early alpha, tried again in release and BOY is there a ton of content added + great polish. GOTY 2020 easily.

Game mechanics 10/10
Visual design 10/10
Audio design 9/10
Soundtrack 10/10
Replayability 10/10
Difficulty: At a sweet spot, not too punishing, but will make you work it. Next to no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ difficulty. Odd reverse difficulty curve though.

Short and sweet. Everything on-point. 666/666 would recommend

Best Metroidvania out there right now.

This game got me into the Total War series, probably the best RTS available right now. If there is a downside it is that you kind-of REALLY want to also own the TW WH1 aswell to get the full experience, and preferably some DLC too. Those though do come to a sale fairly often.

Helvetin hämmentävä asennus tälle DLC