A Brief Eroico Tutorial

Eroico expects you to get a feel for the controls by jumping in and dying a bunch. Instead, here's a guide concerning controls and a few of the features you'll encounter in-game.

Introduction & Bindings

You're probably buying this game for the R-18 goodness. The game itself is rather fun, however. If you've ever played anything like Castlevania, Metroid, Volgarr the Viking, etc., it's a lot like those.

Bindings

It doesn't really matter what gamepad you have. I have a Logitech F310 and a Steam Controller. You can use a keyboard, too.

The default bindings for controllers are as follows:

Control Stick - Move
A -> Jump
B & Y -> Dodge
X -> Attack

The D-Pad also works as a substitute for movement. You'll have to bind it manually for the Steam Controller, though. Should be the same for PS3/4 controller, though my only experience with that is DS4Windows and it jus werkz™ like the other controllers in these situations.

The default bindings for keyboard and mouse is as follows

Arrow Keys -> Move
X -> Jump
C -> Attack
Spacebar -> Dodge

Blocking Attacks

All enemies have an indicator of when they're going to attack. When you see this indicator, press down on the control stick or D-Pad to block it.


When blocking an attack, you won't take any damage, but you'll be knocked back.

Some enemies have attacks that don't look like they can be blocked, but they can. For example, the ranged slime attack can be blocked:

Jump Attack

You can jump on your enemies and attack them, Mario style, by jumping and pressing attack as you land on them.

Blaster/Squirt Gun

The player character has a ranged weapon, too. It looks like a water gun. Discipline your cats and other hostile creatures by pressing the attack button while pressing Up on your control stick/D-pad.



Refill your blaster by walking into bubbles like these:



The game doesn't make getting these easy, however, so don't waste your shots.

Dash Blocks

Throughout the game, you'll run across blocks like this:



If you jump into them while holding a certain direction, you'll be jettisoned in that direction. For example, this is a jump while holding up on the control stick/D-pad



You can also use the dash blocks to instantly kill enemies...



... or get to new heights faster than by platforming normally

Shockwave Blocks

No, not like Adobe (or Macromedia, if anyone's old enough to remember them). Hit these blocks to send a shockwave forward from your position.

You can use them like the other blocks for movement, as well

Increasing your Health - Heart Chunks

Just like in Zelda, but harder to get to. Collect 5 of these lil' devils to increase your health by a quarter.

Powering up - Pedestals

You know the little sparkles you collect when defeating enemies and sometimes getting bubbles? You can go to these pedestals and power up by trading those in:



It changes the blaster to have a burst effect when it makes contact with the enemy, and powers up your attack.

Go forth!

Eroico isn't a very mechanically complex game. The challenge lies in getting it right. Or getting to a save point so you can take in all of the scenes at your own leisure. Your call.

Just remember, there's always garlic bread.

[VinchenzoTheJackal & Shoon]

Is there a keyboard controls guide?

[Race(imaztion)]

This doesn't have quite enough keyboard reference. I know some people prefer gamepads, but I can't stand them for stuff like this.

[BAS1FUK]

This should be the official guide... the game is very frustrating without this knowledge.

[Smee]

@Kami the input for the downward stab is down-down-attack. It does double damage but leaves yourself open to counterattack, so it's only good as a finisher.

[Kami]

There's also a downward stab in the air that seems to have an input like the Quartercircle forward, but I haven't figured out the input for that

[WingManEXE]

Good guide, though it seems doing quarter-circle forward and attack does a dash attack that might be useful to add