Quando eu assinei o game pass eu não conseguia achar um jogo, então eu apertei do botão do random do game pass e ele me recomendou esse jogo e mano, eu joguei um dos melhores jogos que eu já joguei na vida, os graficos são lindos e muito criativos misturando 8 e 16 bits, a historia é genial e hilária tinha momentos que eu ria alto de verdade, sem falar dos plots twists absurdos desse jogo, principalmente a da metade do jogo, a trilha sonora tem uma diversidade sonora bacana, tem desde uma musica mais alegre e determinante até uma mais epica como a da ultima.
Genial, engraçado, e muito criativo, se fall guys foi o meu jogo favorito de 2020, The mesanger foi pra mim o melhor jogo que eu joguei em 2020

As an homage to games like Ninja Gaiden, it’s a challenging throwback with some platforming and traversal mechanics to keep it original. As a metroidvania, it’s bog-standard.

Once the game starts as a Ninja Gaiden-esque 2D sidescroller, it rarely lets up the fun. It throws all its best material at you: gliding, grappling hooks, a kickass chiptune soundtrack, and constant forward momentum. However, that momentum comes crashing to a halt afterwards.

When the game switches genres from 2D action sidescroller to metroidvania, you’re crammed with so much backtracking and aimlessly running from time warp to time warp that you start choking. Most of the game’s backtracking stems from the time travel mechanic. If there’s a way you’re supposed to be going and there’s a wall blocking the pathway, you’re in the wrong timeline. But instead of just switching timelines on the fly, you have to run back to a gate or hole in time to jump timelines and THEN you can proceed. This is just padding.

Bosses range from alright to annoying. A lot of them force you to wait for an opening to attack them instead of bosses from games like Mega Man or Shovel Knight that are almost always open to hit.

I 100%-ed the game and the reward is an honestly inferior item to its counterpart. It felt like the developers wanted to make two different kinds of games and Frankenstein them together rather than carefully blending the two genres. I would’ve preferred they stick with one or the other, particularly the Ninja Gaiden gameplay.

Very good use of humor and plot twists. Enjoyable main mechanic of being given multiple jumps when you hit enemies or objects, strong traversal abilities. Nice art, music, sound effects in each style though I think the music can get a bit annoying in the 16bit style and the actual swing of the sword doesn't sound as good (though it does sound like something developers probably would have used for the time).

Opening linear 8bit gameplay is strong but easy, some areas can become more interesting in 16bit but the actual use of Metroidvania gameplay and backtracking is boring and limited. Once the game had it's big twist and sent me out looking for notes with the new time travel (8bit/16bit) mechanic, it killed any enjoyment I had. The plot twist was done, the humor was mostly done, there is no more equipment to collect, and I was walking around areas I had already been in trying to find what I needed to to win while mostly just fighting the same very limited enemy types. You might change to a certain time run through 10 screens and multiple save points only to get to the end and realize you probably had to be in the other time, run all the way back to switch, run all the way back again only to get somewhere that you haven't run into the character you needed to advance anyway. Some reviewers and a lot of talented Youtubers that focus on platformers really enjoyed this part of the game and how things changed between the time periods but for me if the game wasn't so short I absolutely would have just quit. Death pits can frequently look like paths.