ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

Ender Lilies is an emotional sidescroller RPG with a well-told compelling story, beautiful music & art, and solid gameplay. Its hauntingly beautiful style and satisfying world more than makes up for some slight combat blemishes, leaving a lasting impression as one of the most remarkable games of its kind.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a very atmospheric game, full of feelings and emotions. It is beautifully terrifying and terribly beautiful, allowing players to admire the destroyed cathedral and crumbling statues, a decayed village, a flooded temple of magic and other charmingly gloomy locations.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is that rare example of a game that melds classic game design with modern narrative sensibilities. It's at once a slice of platforming, exploration and combat that'll feel familiar to all, while also tacking mature themes with every beat. It's a treat to play, a sight to behold, and well worth your time.

ENDER LILLIES manages to mitigate my issues with the Metroidvania subgenre while surpassing any expectations I had thanks to its story, art, and gameplay. My time with it was so overwhelmingly positive that I found myself struggling to pinpoint things I didn’t like. To those (like myself) who found themselves enamored with Valkyrie Profile’s theater-of-tragedy style of storytelling, I highly recommend giving Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights a look. To all others, I’d highly recommend it as an incredibly strong action RPG platformer with breathtaking art, engaging gameplay, powerful writing, and an emotive soundtrack that is bound to leave its mark upon you.

Ender Lilies doesn’t revolutionize Metroid’s decades-old template, but that’s okay. It’s a well-made experience, and I had a great time pouring over two dozen hours into this adventure. The presentation rocks, the action is more rewarding than punishing, and its gothic world and lore are alluring. Ender Lilies is a great meat and potatoes experience, demonstrating that simply executing a familiar formula at a high level can be just as welcomed as reinventing the wheel.

With a rich and pleasant gameplay, a really neat artistic direction and a fairly well balanced challenge (a little less at the end of the adventure), Ender Lilies ticks all the boxes of the successful 2D action-RPG. There isn't much more to say, except that if you enjoyed Hollow Knight or Blasphemous, you are going to have a great time with the baby from Live Wire and Adglobe. Especially since the title has its twist, thanks to its mind system, which will allow you to recover new skills on the bosses beaten. Enough to forge your own style of play, within tortuous and increasingly challenging levels. In short, it's varied, inspired, rich with in addition a good lifespan. A very nice adventure.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights‘ combat could still do with some work, not least because the animation is so gorgeous that limiting your physical attacks deprives the game of an extra dose of visual finesse. But this is still a magical outing that will have you hooked until the Blight is nothing but a bad memory.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is hands down one of the best metroidvanias I’ve played in a long time. The combat is fun and unique, the environments are gorgeous, and the soundtrack is just **** first thing I noticed was how fast the load times are—basically instant—and even the death animation looks so good that it takes some of the sting out of dying. Combat is where the game really shines: you summon different spirit allies to fight for you, which makes every build feel fresh and flexible. It’s super high-action, smooth, and never boring. The boss fights stand out too—they’re not overly complex or loaded with crazy mechanics, but they hit ridiculously hard (often like 70% of your health per hit) and have huge health pools. That difficulty structure makes every win feel like a big accomplishment.Speaking of difficulty, this game can be tough. Not in a cheap way, but in that “one wrong move and you’re done” kind of way. It rewards patience and learning boss patterns, while still feeling **** music and world design are also amazing. The soundtrack is moody and beautiful, and the environments are detailed and atmospheric—you really feel pulled into the ruined world. Playtime is around 15–20 hours, which felt just right.Negatives? The story is kind of mediocre and the ending feels rushed, like they didn’t quite have enough time to flesh it out. Also, there’s no voice acting, which makes some of the emotional moments fall a little flat.Even with those flaws, I’d still recommend Ender Lilies to anyone who loves metroidvanias. It nails the core gameplay loop, looks and sounds fantastic, and the challenge is satisfying.Final Score: 9.5/10 – One of the best indie games out there.

It's a nice metroidvania with leveling system, the different attacks you can unlock give you different choices to modify your play style, althrough I usually sticked to the same stuff for most of the game. Also despite not being too hard, there are sudden spikes of difficulty that feel kinda cheap the first time you play it.

When I first started playing, I thought it was a complete Hollow Knight clone, but after defeating the first boss and starting to use its ability, my opinion changed. What's more, you don't have to stick to just one of these; you can use up to six abilities at once. (Don't forget the special moves from the abilities you get from the main bosses.) The game's art style, music, and gameplay are really nice, but the story honestly felt empty. The game has three endings, and I just shrugged off each one—it unfortunately fails to convey any real emotion. If you like Hollow Knight and are looking for a game of that type, I'd say this game is perfect for you.

Ender Lilies is absolutely NOT a 10/10 game. There are a few things the game does incredibly well: graphics, music, and the dodge mechanic. The combat is also alright, but it's also its greatest downfall. I had such high hopes for this game but in the end, much like what you'll be doing the game's protagonist - a weak af little girl in a white dress - for 60% of the game, it just fell flat. I got to the final boss and quit, because I absolutely lost interest. The game is one of the most grindy Metroidvanias ever made. But even worse, after you kill thousands of enemies and level up into the 90s, you STILL feel weak. The game gives you absolutely ZERO sense of accomplishment or empowerment. Yes, that's right folks, after 20-25 hours of playing this horrible lesson in frustration, you are still, ultimately, a little 14 year old girl in a white dress. I don't think anyone should play this game if they're looking for a good time. If you're looking for punishment, grinding, extremely confusing and boring level design with dark daaaaarrrrrkkkkk areas, a godawful map with no labels or text anywhere on it (they might as well not have given you a map at all), tons of enemies that can destroy you in 1 hit all the way til the end, extremely frustrating bosses that will take you hours of retries, and lore and a story that are just as boring, uninteresting and wretched as everything else in the world, look no further. For everyone else, stay far, far away. This is not the kind of game I will be spending my time on ever again. A Hollow Knight predecessor this game is DEFINITELY not. I honestly wish I hadn't even played it.

The worst map i have ever seen on a metroidvania. Music is repetitive, always kind of the same melody, sound effects are bad too, everything sound so weak and floaty. Art is ok, but too dark, everything looks kind of the same. Combat is ok and obviously it takes a lot of gameplay things from Hollow Knight