Absolute gem right here. The main concept of the game is not unique - sure and yet every single aspect of this game is just perfect, if you're into this type of games.

The first thought that could describe this whole game - a sterile room according to the very correct template. I was thinking in a such way during all my walk-through. I can't say that it's bad, but it makes a number of mistakes that could be forgiven for a game with a good story, at least. It has the story itself, but it is very superficial and is simply given to the player as point by point, not like a living stream as you can say. There is no involvement in this story. And without this atmosphere and history, other bad things become more noticeable and irritable. What I liked about this game is that it doesn't make any big mistakes and it doesn't have any bugs (yes, sometimes even simple platformers catch bugs and freezes(hello to Teslagrad Remaster)). There is also a good variety of bosses. They are interestingly drawn(except for The Worm). And I liked the design of the save rooms and portal caves. In general, that's all that I can say here. The whole World is built under a certain non-diverse template, which is interesting to explore only for the first time, and returning to finish something there is no longer particularly interesting. Some places in all zones of the game are simply copied by copy-paste. All enemies die in the same way - they burn out. It looks primitive. I VERY disliked the lack of a dodging and the fact that it was replaced by a step back - it was periodically confusing and instead of avoiding damage, I simply jumped on the enemy. And some enemies either catch up faster or hit further and this step back is useless. I understand it in that way, that the developer simply could not implement a normal roll over the enemy mechanics and made it easier - just jump back. That's how it feels, anyway. Monotonous and non-varied music. It seemed to me that work with inventory and crafting was weak. Often in the chests in difficult rooms there is a much weaker drop than what was dropped from some ordinary monster much earlier. Or the last level craft at the forge actually turns out to be weaker than the same drop from random monster much earlier. The last wave of monsters in the Arena also pissed me off. They dealt some WILD damage and I went through this damn 3rd arena 10 times longer than the local boss and the champion of this arena, whom I killed with the first try. And, by the way, about bosses: all mini-bosses and bosses, after the second, easily or just normally can be defeated by just butted in the face. Except the last boss of the game, everyone after the 2nd boss - you come into the room, turn on the shields and foolishly kick him as fast as you can with the strongest sword in the inventory. That's it! No duels, no tricks are needed. I received some share of pleasure from this adventure in general, and I can advise it to those who love platformers and metro-idvanias, but: 1st, Only at a discount 2nd, Only for fans of these genres, as the rest will be, most likely boring with it. In two words the game can be described as follows: some amateur man decided to make his first game with some standard sets of graphics and characters from the Internet, and according to standard semantic content(story, dialogues). It turned out quite satisfactorily and without mistakes, but also without anything that could stand out and be remembered.

Visually appealing, yet mechanically terrrible game. It is amazing that this game gets "mostly positive" in Steam, yet it is very very weak compared to better Metroidvania style games around here. Doesn't even worth to install this poorly made game. I wish they cared about the mechanics as much as the visuals. Storytelling is weak, and heavily depended on the books we collect around. They didn't even care to implement storytelling to the dialogues or the level design. They used a RPG style level up system inside the Metroidvania style. However combat with mobs are just plain boring. When you hit a monster, the attack doesn't affect it and it continues to walk towards you, and due to delay after your attack, you can't run away from their attacks and take damage for unavoidable reasons. You get movement delays after you attack, yet monsters don't get any delay or stun after getting damaged. This system is plain stupid. Check out Hollow Knight for better combat mechanics. And just to salt the wound, they removed any "combat animations" from the monsters. Monsters simply walk around, and damage you whenever they touch you (even from behind). Waste of time, waste of money. 2: Intolerable - Bad enough to make you refund the game.