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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 6.2 hrs on record (5.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 27 Sep, 2016 @ 1:50pm
Product received for free

Okay, this game? It's bad. I mean, it's really bad.

The plot is the "always memorable" my village and family were attacked and now I have to avenge them kind of thing. Nothing spectacular here. The main character has the personality of a brick, and apparently three voices! Yeah, get this: on story cutscenes he'll sound like this tryhard British nobleman, with horrible voice acting that doesn't even match what the subtitles are showing. His second and third voices? Oh man.

He'll say the same canned 5 lines EVERY TIME he spots an object you can interact with, so get ready to hear "what this is, an object"; or the classic "haha, I'm going to get fat". I say he has two voices ingame because some of these definitely sound like Text to Speech, but when you're not moving, the third voice will come in and start singing...?

You'll traverse through 8 different levels, although if I were you I'd stop at the end of level 1. Level 1 allows you to hear this "amazing" voice acting by yourself, have a few laughs, and be in awe of how bad and glitchy this game is. It's like watching a bad movie with your friends, it has a few "so bad it's good" moments, high comedic value.

The gameplay..? Umm.. It's a spamfest. Yeah there's a skill list but I never paid attention to it, since most mobs just die by spamming the attack button. Even if they defend they'll eventually try to attack you but since you're already spamming you'll almost always attack first. The framerate gets godawful at times, and for this game, there's no reason. It looks like something out of PS2 games, and I have nothing against dated graphics, only poor optimization. I love how the game has ranged weapons, and you can use these, yet there is no normal enemy that thinks of even using a bow. Dark Souls this ain't.

There's this Survival Mode with leaderboards but the bad gameplay doesn't justify its presence whatsoever.

It also started putting in jumping puzzles in a certain level as if the engine itself is good for such things.

The soundtrack...? I remember it had tracks that looped for the entire level, and these can take a while. There's only one combat theme but I wasn't expecting variation there. No track comes to mind. Forgettable at best, annoying at worst.

I am fully aware this was a one man team development for this game and while that is admirable, doing such a sloppy job and making the game so glitchy (i've died randomly in midair, got launched to oblivion, got kicked around chasms, you get the point) and badly optimized won't give you an excuse to put this out there and expect praise. Especially when you're charging money for it.

Please don't waste your money on this.

"What this is, an object". - 10/10
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