Another one of these. A thread about a shitty game that had potential, but fell flat on it's face because of multiple horrible mistakes and incompetence distilled to steaming pile of weird gunk. I'm going to play it through and post screenshots, I'm here to share the experience.
And the game is:
Ravager
"Ravager is a 2D open world platformer that is inspired by Norse Mythology."- Blurb from Steam page.
I have to be perfectly clear here: do not buy this game, if you like good games. Even if you like games that are so bad they are kinda good, this is not one of those. I play a lot of really shitty games, but I have a good reason that I will explain in later posts.
Unfortunately I don't have screenshots from the beginning/tutorial, because I honestly thought I would not be playing this one through, it was that bad. And I, sure as hell, am not going to play the "tutorial" again. So let's begin.
Game begins. First you get a short cutscene of the viking character on a boat, and a long ass wall of text, explaining that you are cursed to respawn forever, so you need to find a way to die and go to Valhalla. I instantly noticed that the graphics look really shitty when the pixels are moving. At least all the pixels are rectangles, unrotated and the same size, so good job I guess.
I really hate the look on games that go lowres pixel art, but spoil it with some completely lazy resize/rotation/layering effect. The "paper doll joints + pixel art-animation", warrants an instant uninstall for me.
Next post will be the controls and animation part.
Just as a clickbait: Something happened in maybe about 1 hour in, that changed the game completely for me. And it's not what you think.