Recent reviews by HaateXIII

Fun little metroidvania with interesting art, good controls, and a nifty story. worth.

Do you like well written RPGs? Do you like having the freedom to screw yourself over in ways you've never thought of before? What about the addictive qualities of pure crack?

If you like any of those, just get the game and play it.

A short little game, but so cute and fun.

Very relaxing to just kinda ...wander around the map and discover the world. and heartwarming conclusion to boot.

Not sure if I'll 100% this, but I'll likely be coming back to just wander around the world and look for things I missed.

The english translation is a little rough in a few places, but the game play more than makes up for it!

Definitely worth the play if you're a fan of metroidvania type games.

I wish there were a way to have a mixed recommendation, but, as there isn't, this trends more towards the negative side.

Positives first:
+ a very interesting take on multiple separate mythologies.
+ the puzzles are very good, and not simple push over types of puzzles.
+ as any decent metroidvania, you'll be backtracking all over the place to find new things when you get new powers
+ amazing pixel work. the sprites are very fluid in their movements, and they just look great!
+ very good "other" art (i.e. everything that's not pixel work)

Neutral:
~ The fast travel system, whilst at times frustrating, does have a decent amount of nodes. Time between unlocking those nodes can be a bit long (and those nodes are also the only place to save).
~ the bosses are fairly difficult (as one would expect from a game with the "Souls-like" tag), but some of them are absolute push overs, if you find the right spot to stand/area to move around in; whereas others demand extreme precision to avoid attacks and be able to retaliate. Mostly, tough but fair, some do cross that line to "ok, this is no longer fair, this is straight up bull s**t."

Negatives:
- The movement is kinda jank. So many places that if you get looked at funny by an enemy, you get bounced down four to five screens, and have to *try* to claw your way back up. The control of your character in mid-air is slim to nil.
- It's VERY directionless. Like, once you're out of the first area, you're put into a "Right, here's the world, go find something to do".
- Whilst the puzzles are complex, there are quite a few of them that are VERY obtuse.
- OH HEY LOOK, IT'S AN INSTANT DEATH TRAP OUT OF NO WHERE WITH NO WARNING! Great. There's 20 minutes of platforming and exploration I'm going to have to do again.
- So, so many stupid traps that have no indicator. It's a "git gud" kind of play style, rather than "hey, you've been at this for 20 hours and have figured out the tells for the traps in this area, here's a bunch of other traps with either no tells or tells that you'll only find after the fact"

I did *kind of* enjoy my time with the game. At least enough to put in about 30 hours, but the frustrations I had overcame the joy I had. Rather than some games, where after I beat them, I'm excited for a second play through, or to find a randomizer of them, La-Mulana 2 is one that will go back in the shelf in my game library and likely not be pulled up again. I know there's post-game content, but I just did not enjoy my time enough to go back for it.

And note to people who think the movement in this game is fluid, go try Timespinner. *THAT* is fluid movement.

Fun game, very visually pleasing, movement is a solid 4/5, but a little on the short side (i.e. I 100% it [in game] in about six hours). I'd still quite recommend it at full price though!

This may or may not be as addicting as pure cocaine >.>

For a person who loves turn based tactics games, this was slightly less addictive than crack.

For an early access game (at the time of me writing this), it is VERY polished. The voice acting is amazing, the animation is clean, it's a good challenge, but doesn't seem impossible.
The writing is amazing, and the lore is just so, so grand.
This game keeps up the Supergiant quality of amazing music, gorgeous visuals, and great writing.
I can't wait to see what the finished game is going to be like!

Love the meatspace variant of this game, and the digital version improves on it so much (by handling all the book-keeping for you).
Great implementation of a great game.