A game where you pet dogs, kill gods and try to stay hydrated along the way.

An impressive outing for a solo developer. While "Fountains" copies most of its homework directly from Dark Souls, it ultimately feels more like Zelda or Hyper Light Drifter cosplaying in armor. The more flippant tone, snappy combat, and Metroidvania style progression set it apart. I had quite a bit of fun with it and kept picking it up even after getting caught (repeatedly) on some of the rough edges.

As others have said, there is a very noticeable jump in difficulty at the end of the game. Unfortunately, the majority of the previous gameplay-- exploring and fighting in various locations-- is basically dropped in favor of a series of boss fights. This was pretty disappointing actually, as I thought the level design up to that point was good, but I did enjoy the individual fights.

There's only so much content you can expect out of a single person, so I'm happy enough to see a tighter, completed product than something overly ambitious and under-baked.

It's a decent game but it has some issues that make me ultimately not recommend it. These are of course my opinion so if these are things you're looking for or just don't mind you'll probably like this game.

1) Combat is a little too precision for me. I like challenging combat but you're expected to dodge alot and the iframes are pretty tight imo. That might be ok normally but the enemies are smaller on the screen and their attacks aren't super readable imo. If you like precision platfomers but with combat this might be a plus for you though.

2) Map has too little detail for me. I genuinely can barely make out what things are and I'm often guessing where to go next with alot of fumbling around.

3) Boss design. I see what they're trying to go for and i beat a couple of them, but when i got to a fire shooting guy, I just didn't enjoy the rhythm of it enough to learn it. It was alot of dodging (but kinda boring dodging) for a small opening for one or two hits. And then alot of boring dodging again. It drew out the fights length and i just didn't enjoy the "dance" of it. Once again others might love this.

Ultimately I loved Hyperlight Drifter and really wanted to like this, but just wasn't enjoying the game design.