Senaste recensioner av Kade

A really good Metroidvania that I personally believe is up there with the genre namesakes and heavyweights. It doesn't reach the highs of Hollow Knight, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night or Super Metroid but has some pretty great platforming and combat rooms. It's relatively easy but between the difficulty & accessibility settings and some in-game items the difficulty is highly modular and you can make it really hellish for yourself if that's what you want. Two things I'll dock it for are that the combat "Challenges" are actually a tutorial for some crazy mechanics and interactions I didn't know about at all and the game never communicates that to you and that one of the criteria for 100%ing the game is really stupid and tedious but easy to overcome. Highly recommended if you want something to tide you over until Hollow Knight: Silksong comes out.

EDIT: Just remembered another thing I didn't like about it after seeing the key art and it's that the main character looks stupid as hell. Don't know why they gave him the Killmonger hair lmao. Anyways, they added a Sands of Time costume for free so just equip that as soon as you can.

Great little puzzle game that's very reminiscent of Nintendo 3DS eShop games like Box Boy, making good use of a single multi-purpose mechanic that never overstays its welcome, though I wish it was a bit longer. Still highly recommended.

Legion Commander can't jungle in this game.

Hi-Rez retire ♥♥♥♥♥

So, I'm not exactly sure what this game was like prior to the release of the NEXT (1.5) update but what I've been playing or thinking about non-stop for the last three days makes me feel like I'm playing a completely different game made by a completely different studio than the game everyone harrassed the developers for two years ago.

It's 100% not going to win over anyone who isn't a fan of survival sandbox games (the starting hour or two is a mess and will turn away a lot of people) but what's presently in the game is honestly some of the most engaging content I've experienced in the genre. I've encountered quite a few problems with the UI, mission progression and crafting (some people start with recipes that others don't have, making progression and base building nearly impossible at the start) but the developers seem to be updating the experimental branch very frequently with fixes that make it to the main client within hours.

Despite the issues, I'm really impressed with how seemless everything in this and how much depth there is and I hope the developers can keep up with the demands and interest from the community. I'm glad they didn't give up on their game.