I hate this game

[kernot]

Really. I hate it. Well mostly becouse it hates me first almost every second and everywhere.
Before all the words gonna be said please answer: what is this game? Anima.Gate of... is not an answer. What you are wanting to create? Is it a beat them up? Is it action rpg? Is it a quest? Is it a f...king SuperMeatBoy? What is it? Did you try to combine everything yummy in one mix?

My guess it`s the last one and very uneatable (without even mentions of bugs, glitches, bad level design). After some time after start i kicked it - I didn`t know what to do, where to go. Almost every door was sealed without any explanation how to unseal them and just beating puppets in open corridors is nofun. After 5-6 month i accidentally started it and decided to play it for a while... And on a hill found new mobs that opened door to guardian(flying head). But i swear in my first try i searched upside-down this hill and there were just ordinary mobs. Progress started and i made my way up to Nightmare boss... and kicked it once again. He was way to strong.
After another month i decided to try last time before del. That was onesided - after loosing 2/3 hp he summon a lot of fakes and there is no escape. I was level 7 my build was 99% of time Girl with magic beam on distance or asault+launcher on close against easy mobs, ergo - just extra bars of hp(Jesus Christ he suck). And here arrived understanding that i`m noob(after watchin this fight on youtube). 30 minutes of lame farm -> 12level -> arcane summon-> kill the boss in a minute without healing. By the way - PRAISE GABRIELS GIFT OF LIFE!!! Had i this one sooner and there were no pain on first and second bosses becouse i`m out of healing items. With build Girl
Arcane summon+Light Holocaust+True Aweking+PRAISE GABRIELS GIFT OF LIFE!!! i run easy-breasy to worst and bad endings in no time.
And here comes true ending. Lady was easy, problems arrived on tandem of Romeo and Lady. If someone think that i`m not hardcore enough just try to beat at least 95%hp with distance atacks and using PRAISE GABRIELS GIFT OF LIFE!!! as healing. Why 95? Well after 85% he start to cast non-stop his sunny move with a lot of sword atacks + Lady help and after even 1 hit you are dead, becouse you can`t dodge you just gonna be hitted over and over again. And i actualy beat them. Fume Knight from DS2 didn`t kill me even 1/30 that many.
And now i stuck on pair knights vs Ergo( seriously why he so badly suck? his dodge suck, his assault suck, his skills suck. do you place him just that for "Babe do you know the funniest thing in this adventure? It`s the way i bump about your butt" ? His jokes super fun, but himself he is just a big joke). Gues i gonna drop it for sure, even on easy i can`t deal even 1/5 of hp at least to one. Imho it`s stupid.
Maybe i`m just not the man for this job, game just need way more skill...But wait explain me random camera turnover, explain me half sec droped fps...
Or this, near almost all doors i drop under textures and stuck.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837516852
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837516960
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837517069
or this using PRAISE GABRIELS GIFT OF LIFE!!! on moving object makes game stuck
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837517653
or why all kind of jumps is so screwed up? I already forgot how i fought 1,2,4,5 messenger but i still remeber flying head, and that nightmare without healing. I realy want to know name of man, who designed this level
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837520665
I gonna write his name on my woodoo doll. Almost everytime it was like jump from one edge to another edge. If camera glitched you are dead.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837517517
By the way every 4-6 tries you need to close game and start anew becouse thouse traps tend to work at the same time while they should one after another
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837517721
And the funniest thing - well, after a lot of deathes i made it, took the ring(useless) and how i suppose to return? Disappearing pallets disappeared and death is the only exit(and if savepoint wasn`t at the door on other side this gonna be game stuck)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=837520665
Bugs with skills - if you ever assign skill to a button then with chance around 15% you gonna cast it (once i had 4 different skills in row)
Level with season`s portals way too bright for no reason. And few more words about game design - once i had animation of unlocking a door at puppet`s house. I know that somewhere is the door and it`s now opened, but i have no idea where it is. i guess it`s on some else floor/arc/ maybe even game becouse i checked puppet house everywhere and didn`t find that open door). By the way i play keyboard+mouse maybe half of problems here.

Why so many angry words? Becouse when game didn`tpiss me off i liked it. I very like design of 2d level in nightmare arc(by the way in place where you need to push cube to jump over while escaping the boss you can`t jump over with Girl only with Ergo, after it becomes jumpable for Girl), Ergo jokes and Girls answers(seriously why he so suck ingame?), voice of reading memories, some other little things...
Sorry for bad english

[AnimaProjectStudio]

I am really sorry to hear that. We did our very best and I only hope that you had at least some fun with it.

[kernot]

Well. I have a lot of fun. In positive and negative meaning. Maybe my words were too harsh, but well the were a lot of pain behind them. Don`t get me wrong, i didn`t want to haras someone(exsept one, who create that jumping level) and "give my money back". I don`t regret that i bought and played it. All the wotds just for the next game gonna be better in technical aspect.

[AnimaProjectStudio]

It was me who created the jump levels (in fact, I did all of them but since we are a 3 people team, there can be only one of us in charge of the level design ^_^¡).
In any case, thanks for your coments. You can believe me when I say that I will have them in mind in the future.

[kernot]

Well, by chance i upgrade my pc and it solve some problems: i`m not lagging anymore, no random rotation out of nowhere. So i`d say game realy need some optimization. I check from low to ultra and don`t realy see any big differences.
Still bump in some glitches and bugs, but they don`t break the flow:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=865249190

Jump levels still problem but not so big as it was - die 4-5 times before reaching final boss but beat him in one go.

I`d give 7 out of 10 for this game. Bad optimisation, jump levels, very weak Ergo - I can`t ignore this. It would be nice to clear all achievements, but some of them don`t explain what to do(Bully for exmple). Anyway, I wish you luck and hope you make something new very soon.
Final boss looks like from Full Metal Alchemist, i hope there won`t be problems with rights.