Recent reviews by barnaba

If you played this back in the day and have nostalgia for it - you know you want it, you don't need my review. Seems to work fine.

But the game is so braindead lol. It's like Vampire Survivors - you fly a ball of fiery death, and everything that shows up on screen just dies. Dodging is highly optional, and that's good because good luck being able to see enemy bullets in this mess.

I had fun, but I'm not sure you will.

The voice acting (at least in polish) is so bad I unpacked the assets and use some of the lines for memes.

The second half of the game is buggy af. The shooting sections are terrible and the game would be better with them removed all together. It's also pretty easy to softlock.

If you don't know poland / slav countries - this is probably not for you.
If you don't like the very weird politics pushed at you (sure hope this was for art, otherwise whoever wrote it should seek help), maybe skip it.
If you expect your games to work - skip.

If you like jank and you like the art-style and you're willing to learn very non-standard beat-em up (with a very useless tutorial), I'd still wait for a sale, because it's really not fair to sell such a buggy mess for 70 pln.

I don't think I'll be playing the new game plus.

Overall OK, sadly nothing special.

Things of note:
- it takes under an hour to finish (which is a bit low, but then it was getting a bit tedious, the concepts are really simple, so probably a good call). Maybe a bit low for the price.
- There are some fun sequence skips you could do, intentional or not they are always welcome.
- There are no achievements, single life/continue clear would maybe make it stay a little longer.
- the visual choices don't serve it too well. It's often not clear where the enemies will shoot and the screen is too small. At this graphic complexity give me a hat or maybe weapons reskins, not only palettes! It'll literally take 3 minutes to draw a top hat or an axe that matches this style xd
- The sword concept feels a bit underexplored.

It's clear the developer put work in, but it lacks soul and spice to be something worth remembering. Probably better on a smaller screen, like a steam deck. I'd probably be interested to see a reimagining/sequel now that all those years have passed.

And if you're by chance reading this review (doubt anyone will) and you liked weaponeer, see Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio. Maybe you'll enjoy that too.

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CALLING IN A REVIEW BOMB

Glad I haven't bought any premium stuff and even if the PSN thing blows over somehow (if not, I'll be requesting a refund) I won't be spending any additional money on it. Corporations always get what they want in the end.

This game is much better than the trailer would have you believe. For example the snail can wear funny hats.

In all seriousness though, I love it more than I love celeste. The game was in humble bundle, so it's easy to find legit (very) cheap keys if you're into that sort of thing.

barely a game. Eventually I fell down from the map and wasn't feeling like redoing the previous section :(. In other places it was extremely restrictive. It's ok if you have some change and nothing to do, but you can do better.

Dark souls of Tcheco. Will teach you everything you need to know to survive in a Brazilian mall.

This is one of those "meh" reviews. It's cheap, it's an underdog, it works well on linux, even in a multimonitor i3 setup, and I'm the first to review it. Not a game that deserves to be 100% negative, or even 50% negative for sure. It's a decent looking game with an actual novel (or at least underused) idea behind it.

That said, the choices the game gives seem very simple and frankly a little boring. The AI in early missions - only missions I've seen - just gives up after building single windmil (eco building) and barracks (production building, but it's hard to imagine needing too many of those, as you can spam at least 6 units per turn from just one and then you have to manage them all). Based on UI and promotional materials I don't think there's any more things to build, but I might be wrong. The rules of the game aren't very intuitive and maybe a simple manual/video or a help screen would be in order. The sounds are pretty annoying too.

Wasn't able to play the demo on linux, so that's not cool. Also there's a tiny bug regarding z order of a tooltip on the menu screen.

TL;DR I wish the dev the best, but this looks underdeveloped, even though what's here is reasonably polished.

good game, still worth playing in 2023 (careful in 2024)

so easy and boring