Nine Sols

le jeu a une ambiance impeccable des combats fun, des boss inspirer,une histoire poignante, que demander de plus?

so i am reviewing the game while i haven't finished it yet, because my gamepass pc subscription ended and my save game file was lost after i did reset my pc and the cloud saving didn't work. from what i've seen and what i played, nine sols seemed to have a great potential, the visuals and art style were great and the gameplay was kind of fun, i liked the UI design and also the way the story was going, and the characters. but, i didn't find that specific "spark" that i do find sometimes in video games that end up in my favorites, i don't know if it's just my relationship with metroidvania and 2d games, or the game just came in a time where i lost that passion for video games. overall i liked the game and maybe i would've liked it more if i continued playing till completing it but that was my review for the amount of time i've already played.

Gorgeous graphics and animation. The world design, characters, and presentation are all top tier. The only reason it doesn't rate higher for me is the insane difficulty spikes.

Nine sols is a great game with great combat and good story, why 4/10? Because it has the worst boss ever existed with the most poor design and most glitched move set ever, defeating this boss is purely on luck weather he's gonna glitch this time or no, gotta give it to the devs I have never seen a less devoleped boss in my life, great game with a strong weak point, fuxi

Perfect example of a badly polished release. - bad pacing : the game just insists on interrupting gameplay to dump some sub-par story. The beginning is too slow too which doesn't help. - map design : serviceable but not impressive in the slightest. Nothing stands out but the furnace level which slows down the game making you wait til the blaze goes off... - Combat : worst part of this game. Specially bosses. Hitboxes are so poorly designed, damage detection all over the place. Combined with overlaying attacks coming from blind spots. Leaving you often taking damage in the cheapest ways. Bosses also mouvement is all over the place, they track your mouvement as well as well as their attacks making footsies out of the question. Cheap environment hazards on boss arenas just feel added nonsense for the hell of it. Also hits stuns so you get chained quite easily into a fatal combo out of nowhere.. Not that you need a lot of hits to die. Healing and HP a irrelevant on boss fights because they kill you in 2 or 3 hits max. Just a sluggish effort to go through all this.. - Progression : most progression isn't that interesting. Asmentioned earlier, hp increases doesn't matter when you get killed in a couple of hits. Art direction and music are quite nice even. This game shows how good tram cherry are. Polishing the game before release is everything because of how important first impressions are.