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Its hard and thats a good thing.

TIL the masses of casuals that have recently invaded the Souls franchise when Elden Ring got popular have severe case of skill issue when they cant outlevel content.

Well crafted, thought through and snappy, with every element present serving a purpose and making the experience better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNY9feH3rw

Great retro game. Very smooth, polished and soulful, joy to play and experience.

Cozy: The Game

Alright, this was really good. In every way.

What's the point of having closed beta, then open beta, then one demo, then another demo if you're going to ignore all the feedback?

* no rebindable controls
* healing is still a non-replenishable consumable that you need to farm for or buy
* parry is two-button press for whatever reason, on top of being absolute jank to begin with
* no video settings of any kind

We told you about all these problems many months ago, how do you release a game without fixing any of it? How do you release a game in 2023 without rebindable controls? Castlevania had it in 1997.

Also: you cant pause the game. Just like in Souls and Bloodborne. Except, the reason why thats a thing there is because of constant online interactivity in those games. Last Faith is a singleplayer game.

Between copying bad elements from Bloodborne and the mentioned above no pause, this game and its relationship to From Software titles really makes you think of those tribal people that ended up carving out wooden clubs in the shape of muskets. No understanding of why something exists or how it works, just blindly copying it (including copying the mistakes, like the vials from BB).

Will update this review when/if listed problems are fixed, but for now its a negative. Nice art is not enough to carry game when there are critical gameplay elements missing.

Combat is so unbelievably bad that it makes you laugh, enemies and bosses have the most pathetic, non-threatening movesets I've ever seen in a game like this

Despite having topdown perspective and attacks being in all directions, there are only two animations for every character, left and right - so even when you or enemy is actually attacking up, you still see it as "left attack" or "right attack"; this is incredibly lazy

Amateurish level design of samey copypasted environments with very little intent behind them, navigation is tedious both because of lack of landmarks, ingame map or sensible way of guiding the player through the level

No rebindable controls

Stay away.

Nice retro platformer with metroidvania elements, great value for price

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