This game is a chore. A downright boring pain in the neck ****. The story is non-existent and the gameplay makes me want to rip my hair out with how obtuse it all is. I'm sure on some level it's a perfectly fine game but it is riddled with such small annoyances and flaws that it makes me hate the thought of playing this game. I HATE THIS GAME. There is said it. I don't want to play it. Let's start with the story. There is none. There is a vague plot that kicks starts the gameplay where the MC's parents do something to the elemental spirits to go away and plunge the continent into disarray. That's it. Year later you leave to right their wrongs and meet characters who don't pretend to have significance or personality. They are NPC's not characters. The world map is laid out like a labyrinth where everything is twice or three times as hard to get to then it should be and I'm not talking about treasures or the temples. Just getting to the towns in this game is such a pain that i question how such a frustrating world map came to be. Finding the map seller is sometimes impossible without luck and worst of all sometimes he's blocked off until you complete the actual area he's in before you get the map. Money is a chore to collect. Not only do you have to find several upgrades to your wallet but god forbid you find a chest filled with coins while your wallet is full because the coins will disappear into the void and when you really need them the most you will simply not be able to find enough coins for whatever upgrade or items you need. Grinding for coins in this game is such a nightmare that my time is too precious to waste on this crap. Combat is exactly what you'd expect from an old school top down adventure game like this. You swing your sword at enemies a few times to kill them. But don't get to close because if a single pixel touches you while your trying to attack, you take damage. You can try to use the elemental powers, the things the game is based one. Except only half are offensive and so weak you're better off risking the sword. The elemental powers are equally frustrating sometimes. Some are only useful in very rare occasions and even then I seriously question why they were designed to work like they do. Ice you used to shove pillars which reset themselves when you leave the room. The water allows you to walk on water in a bubble but if you get hit the water pops and you take damage from falling in the water and start back over on dry land. Again the little things like the game just lets you jump into bodies of water and take damage. Any other game wouldn't let you go into the water period without a swimming but not this one. If you want to take needless damage go right ahead. The entire game is riddled poor game design flaws and lack quality of life design that should be present in a game that may mimic retro 2D adventure but have adapted to modern game design. Plenty of people find pleasure and joy in this game but I simply do not. This game is miserable to play.

Elementallis es un tributo al gaming clásico. Aunque es notoria la influencia que The Legend of Zelda tuvo en su desarrollo, Elementallis no se limita a copiar la fórmula pues agrega un sistema de elementos para interactuar con los mapas y contra los enemigos, lo cual amplía la fórmula original. Si bien el diseño de personajes es algo limitado y la historia es poco profunda, el diseño de niveles y su jugabilidad supera por mucho lo anterior; en cuanto a los gráficos, estos son bastante buenos y logran igualar (e incluso mejorar) lo que he visto en otros juegos indies del mismo género. Es refrescante que aún existan desarrolladores interesados en brindar experiencias retro, sobre todo en una época donde los jugadores se enfocan más en explotar la potencia del hardware, Elementallis es un juego que me sorprendió gratamente y que me hizo recordar mis primeros años como video jugador, es un juego que todo gamer de la vieja escuela debería probar. Gray Fox/NTK

Gameplay is kind of fun. But reviews promised Zelda like game, but story feels like like a parody out of super nintendo era games.