Has anyone played this? I just beat it and wanted to know what other people thought of it. I personally really enjoyed it. Now, I don't have a DRM free version of the game unfortunately so I can't share that but here is the soundtrack for those who might be interested.
Forgot to mention, don't buy the game just yet. It stutters like a mother fucker in certain sections. Apparently they plan on fixing it but that patch has yet to be implemented.
Brody Martin
Beat the game, watched a friend of mine 100% the game on Twitch. Devs are great and have been very responsive with everyone's bug reporting and are working on a patch for the majority of bugs they've received. Including the stutter, Xbone controller mishaps, camera breaking in relation to elevators and more. It's only $15 so don't be fags, buy the game or wait for a sale that'll drop the price even lower.
Christopher Flores
Forgot to post what I think of it. Great game, perfectly encapsulates the term "Metroidvania" and the game is fucking gigantic. Gameplay is extremely varied and there's a lot of abilities to unlock. I'm fucking stunned that 3 people made this game as big as it is, and play as well as it does while looking as good as it does, in just 3 years. This is definitely a must-play game
Owen Williams
Where's a demo? I'd like to try it before shelling out muh shekles (it does look nice, but I want to know how it plays first hand first)
Ian Campbell
Just pirate it and buy it if you like the first few hours of gameplay. The only time they had a demo I can think of was for their kickstarter.
Carson Adams
This is already GOTY to me for a variety of reasons, I doubt that anything can top it. Yet have to finish it, it's really big, which is one of the reasons why it's so good. Most 'metroidvanias' just don't have enough map for it to feel GOOD. Here you can explore like a motherfucker and it actually is rewarding to find shortcuts and everything. Feeling is great, difficulty is good.
All around it's just incredible to see an indie game that feels DONE. Nearly everyone I ever played feels unfinished in some aspects, this here feels like a finished, complete game.
If it means anything, I literally pirate EVERYTHING, but I'm going to buy this now. First game I bought since months.
Alexander Sanders
Looks great. where i can pirate it before buying?
Tyler Taylor
If the devs aren't injecting their political agendas into it and it's a good game (looks kawaii) I honestly don't give a fuck at this point. If I could download a demo NOT on steam or outright buy it on GoG I would.
Just finished it. For a small kikestarter game, it's fucking huge, well polished gameplay-wise and gorgeous. A GOTY contender, at least for the budget category. Too bad it's pretty glitchy.
Too bad this thread will be spammed by people thinking praise = shilling, like every other thread like this. How dare people like video games.
Just google it, it's drm free.
Asher Watson
why the fuck do you make a thread about a game but don't mention at all what the game is like?
Evan Carter
oh no
Lincoln Walker
I haven't played the fucking thing, but I'm not an idiot. These are the key descriptors:
That's fucking it. Not "Lush RETRO environments" "catchy authentic 8 BIT soundtrack" or whatever the fuck else you're looking for in the clickbait headlines of your (((discerning))) review sites.
Nathaniel Ramirez
keep it in your pants boy jesus christ
Matthew Johnson
it begins
Zachary Anderson
Execute this nigger.
Joshua Gonzalez
A videogame
Ryan Young
LOL
James King
What the fuck is that?
Caleb Miller
You're either retarded or high because all this shit you're making up reading between the lines is just off the fucking rails. You should probably just take a deep breath and then hang yourself.
Lucas Hughes
Remember to filter the always filter spergs. You, or the thread gain nothing from falling for the bait.
Wyatt Nelson
Get with the times gramps
This better not be dolphin porn, thanks anyways for the dolphin porn
Dylan Jackson
Something that you play on your TV/Monitor and later regret spending so much time and money into
Mason Hall
Are they fun? Is this video-computer game fun?
David Jenkins
I've got a copy of the files for an early build of the game on my home PC. I'll post it in a couple hours.
But seriously, someone post a pirated version, because the early build doesn't really show you anything.
Zachary Cruz
You're right, this is a calm board for calm people who peacefully discuss video games in a respectful manner.
You asked OP a question and didn't read the extremely short thread to see the answers given. What do you want me to assume, seeing those two things together? Can nothing be inferred from that observation?
Fucking idiots.
Tyler Campbell
The frame-pacing and stuttering is pretty bad, also trying to find where to go is also pretty bad, right now searching every corner of the game just to find some kind of powerup that allows me to fight the fast moving girl again. I do like the boss fights but trying to find shit usually leads to bonus crap instead of vital items I need to make progress.
Xavier Taylor
I didn't know about this game until yesterday, so does anyone know what the story is with some of the unreached stretch goals being in the game, but the 2 other characters not being in?
Gavin Gutierrez
Well I fucking hate art style to begin with. Seems like reddit fetish-bait to me. Also another fucking metroidvania but without huge ass assortment of weapons, armor, abilities, and spells, how goddamn original. Are you fags sure, you aren't shilling? Maybe I'm wrong in my assessment somewhere?
Nolan Sanders
The abyss stretch goal was probably to turn it into a proper zone, with challenges and shit. The one in game exists mostly due to the game's story.
The colosseum of fools was probably easy to make since it's mostly reused enemy logic, so maybe the artist finished everything he had to do and had extra time, so they just told him to do it and slapped the resulting shit together with duct tape. It's the area where the worst bug can happen, permanently blocking you from the last weapon upgrade and the 100% completion, so it's pretty obviously rushed.
As for the extra character, the devs delayed to polish it, along with 2 backer bosses.
Cooper Powell
It's a solid game. It's not a groundbreaking or revolutionary. It just does it's job and does it well.
Parker Turner
so far i have seen people claiming it is a Metroidvania, but also a souls-like… it feels kinda like salt and sanctuary, but more manageable
Ethan Rodriguez
Last game that did its job and did it well that I'm aware of is Order of Ecclessia, and it still was wishy washy compared to something like Aria of Sorrow. I dunno if my standards are too high for something made on kickstarter money though.
Blake Garcia
Are you forgetting Dragon's Crown?
Alexander Nelson
I'm talking about so called "metroidvanias" there, not games that did their job in general.
Isaac Moore
Looks cool. I'll pirate it to see if it runs. If I like it I might buy it.
Are the developers shitlords?
Christian Baker
there hasn't been a developer that has been a confirmed shitlord since RWS or maybe the Hatred devs but they are not important
Angel Russell
Fuck off shill
Jayden Clark
As long as they're not mouth-breathing retards it's cool.
Here, now give me proof they're SJW cucks.
Jeremiah Taylor
Tell me why I should play this game and I'll give it a pirate, the only metroidvanias that I've played and liked have been Toki Tori 2 and Dark Souls 1 though I haven't played many others.
Doug Stamper (Castle Crashers and Battleblock Theater) seems pretty problematic, at least from what I've seen on his twitter.
Zachary Wright
I'm like 80% through the game and so far breddy gud. Got fucking no loot bug at colosseum and thanks unity stuttering is annoying and make some deepnest areas outright unplayable but otherwise it's very solid metroidvania/platformer, worth trying out. On a side note I read that unity has telemetry shit that can't be turned off in any unity game so the question is what IPs do I block to prevent that shit?
dubs user, pls.
Ian Jenkins
Follows Nathan Grayson, Jim Sterling and Feminist Frequency.
Would you kindly fuck off now?
Jacob Lee
It looks like generic crap.
Like we don't already have a million different "artsy" games where the character has no abilities other than jumping and moving. What these people fail to get is that the simple act of movement should be fun in of itself, like in Mario or Sonic. Instead the character has no acceleration, instantly goes to its top speed and can adjust its jump trajectory as much as it wants. It has no weight and they manage to make even movement boring.
Why can't they ever get it right?
They're SJWs? I didn't know that, but if they are then it makes perfect sense as these people don't understand anything about quality.
Lincoln Smith
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Cameron Green
Screencaps, nigger. I don't have twitter because I'm not a faggot.
Brayden Sanders
The shill wants proofs m80s, it's not like team cherry's twitter account can be accessed freely by anyone.
Eli Reed
Can confirm that they follow Grayson, Sterling, and a bunch of other assholes like the dev that made Night in the Woods.
Whatever you do, don't buy this game. Pirate it at most.
Joshua Green
Except clicking on who someone follows prompts me to log in SO I CAN'T FUCKING CHECK.
Evan Butler
Isn't it the usual indie circlejerk in order to promote their indie shit? I'd rather see their posts or whatever has SJW tendencies because that middle school tier witch hunting is stupid.
Owen Ortiz
mega nz/#!1B8jSILC!DEqLW150d1p2lrB83lX_nzCs4x50vsYY8tlKwRQOukI
This is the demo / early build. It's not much.
Nicholas Price
Wouldn't being in the indie circlejerk count as a SJW tendency? Regardless… The fact that they pander to the indie circlejerk means that they're already getting enough sales from SJWs who buy anything that's in their circlejerk.
John Baker
Kek.
Jack Brown
SJW don't buy games period.
Dylan Butler
Just found out about this game the other day been hearing good things about this quite a bit lately, get excited and decide to finally look into it because I'm always looking for new metroidvania shit. Into the trash it goes.
Eli Sullivan
Then they have absolutely no excuse to pander to them, but they still do. I can understand journos, but why developers of shit like Night in the Woods which is as SJW as it gets? They also advertise Owl Boy and shitty female game designers/streamers.
I haven't played the game yet, though. If it's fun, then I may change my stance, but I'm not buying their game when they spend their advertisement money to associate themselves with rest of soc jus indieshits.
Ryder Morgan
The reason they are pandered to is because they are EXTREMELY LOUD and diligent in their complaining, have a moral high ground, and have friends in high places. Also to correct my statement SJW buy games, they just don't play them longer than an hour. Which is perfect for games like gone home.
Carson Green
This is neither metroidvania nor soulskike, it's a straight up metroid clone but with melee attacks instead of shooting. I fucking hate that people come up with retarded super specific sub-genre names first, and absolutely don't follow them later, slapping it on random shit. None of it is metroidvania or soulslike in any way, shape or form.
Gabriel Myers
Well, at least with this game I don't see them pandering, just following some retards on twitter. A click isn't really pandering. But I'll just continue this train of thought since I've thought about it a lot. I believe most developers are just clueless and follow anyone back who shows support for their game and is even vaguely related to game development. Look at the number of people they follow, you're not going to keep track of what 500 people do or say when you ought to be working on your game. And you're not really going to turn your nose on free coverage/support, especially if it comes across as good willed.
Honestly, as long as devs don't spout their agenda publicly, sabotage other developers or get industry favors on the level of ol' Phil Fish, I don't really care. There's not much you can do to show them what kind of people they're dealing with. Demonizing them for it doesn't work because they'll just think you're a troll. If you tell them they're following a bunch of insane cultists they'll think you're making shit up. There's no easy solution to this and I don't think there ever will be. So I think the best way is to support those who are in the know or at least neutral.
SJW's don't even buy games, dude. They just watch LPs or browse tumblr to gush over the fanart.
Brandon Ortiz
I don't think any of those are required for a metroidvania, I mean neither castlevania nor metroid had much in the way of RPG mechanics.
Metroidvania is just a big interconnected map where you see a door you can't pass and find something that allows you to pass it at some point later in the game (like you see a cliff you can't jump to early on and later when you get a double jump you go back to that cliff to progress forward). All that other shit you listed is just surface elements.
Ryan Roberts
That b8 made me smile, nice.
Wyatt Rogers
thank ya user
Zachary Clark
No, metroidvania is a genre cemented by SOTN and its sequels, all of which have those. It's the influx of shitty indie games years later deluted and made genre completely irrelevant.
So basically metroid? Where is "vania" in there?
I'm being honest, fuck you.
Brayden Walker
He's right though, It's more like a straight metroid like.
Aaron Nguyen
That sounds like shilling to me.
James King
One of the devs said roughly the same thing as you. At first he went with that people were telling him, but then backpedaled. The interviewer was a major faggot, too. archive.is/K50je
I can see that, sure. It should still piss you off that you'd have to pay so that they can make up for what they're losing in "advertisement costs", when all they're doing is linking to girl streamers.
Henry Campbell
To compare there is this Valdis Story game that has both ability-based map progression AND RPG-syled character building with equipment, skills and shit. That is a proper metroidvania. Games like this, Ori and the Faggot Forest or Axiom Verge are just metroid clones. Or metroidlikes, or whatever the fuck you call it, just not metroidvanias for fuck's sake.
Luis Sanders
Words are as they are used, almost noone uses metroidvania in the context that you're using it and I'd best most people who do use it don't actually know that it originates from people calling Metroid a Castlevania clone, they just think the -vania is the same as -like.
Then words would never change and we'd be speaking ye olde English right now wouldn't we?
Dylan Watson
So in current context metroid is metroidvania huh? Good to know.
Gabriel Carter
Marketing is so fucking easy nowadays that linking a bunch of people a video of your game would add up to maybe a days worth of work, and that's all you really have to do. I don't think anyone loses money on advertisement.
Oliver Garcia
I know it sounds dumb but if we're going to purge videogame genre names that are misused then we have a lot of purging to do. No one seems to understand what an RPG is, MOBA is a retarded acronym, RTS should be RTT, and I don't even know what to make of "soulslike" since it's so vague as to which specific elements of the souls games it's supposed to refer to.
But of course we aren't going to change gaming terminology so you might as well just go with it to avoid confusion.
Evan Russell
I wouldn't fucking mind some large scale purging tbh.
Julian Smith
Check wiki, user en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroidvania that's how most people including me see metroidvania. Soulslike isn't even a genre, plebs just stamp it onto everything where you can lose something when you die. And btw, Hollow Knight has parry, it's very strict with frames though.
Don't forget roguelikes.
Isaiah Williams
This makes me more upset than it should.
Brayden Young
He looks cute. Is there R34?
Jace Cruz
Did you just fucking assume xir gender?
Dominic Harris
What was it called, when frames are rendered at inconsistent speed? Frame pacing? Unity is know for not being able to maintain it. So yeah, fuck anything with "strict frames" on unity.
Alexander Walker
Yes, now where's the damn porn?
Owen Morris
Behold.
Adam Cox
Fuck, I forgot to spoil it.
Nicholas Walker
I want to blow him. Any drawfags ITT? lewd him
Justin Fisher
The shilling for this indieshit is embarassing.
Leave, you piece of shit.
Aaron Hernandez
Iwannafitin guys are amusing.
Blake Thompson
This game came out like three years ago
Angel Myers
Wait, after looking at the Steam page it says the game came out last month. What the shit, I remember hearing about this game in 2014.
Carson Foster
maybe you remember the kikestarter promises for it when was announced
Noah Parker
Sure it wasn't something else "knight"? Shovel Knight, perhaps.
Carson Perez
>>>/cuckchan/
Jack Carter
You know, for what it's worth, one of the guys on the team follows an openly anti-feminist Twitter account.
Christopher Green
>Pro: West, gun, life, gay, ISRAEL Oy vey, Chaim!
Tyler Jenkins
Look, you take your victories where you can get them.
Austin Reyes
you sound like reddit but you seem nice enough please wait at least 6 months before posting.
Robert Cox
Suuuure….
Jaxson Price
you can tell this is a shill because the red one doesn't have a dick
Brandon Barnes
...
John Ortiz
I pirated this, played a few hours and loved it so much I straight up bought it. Turns out it's only nine bucks on GOG.
Unfortunately got hit with the GOG specific bug :( . At least it's fixed for future playthroughs.
I have a question though… I've been absorbing ghosts ever since I accidentally absorbed the gravedigger… is this frowned upon? Poor Cloth ;___; Still haven't touched the Glade, though…
Leo Turner
Wow, this game is really filled with bugs.
Daniel Ortiz
FUCK YOU I ALREADY DID THAT STOP STEALING MY JOKES YOU FUCKING SPIC proof: