mano.
eu nao tenho palavras
pra definir
o tanto
que eu amei
esse jogo
eu NUNCA joguei zelda e mesmo assim eu fiquei sei la encantado
a ambientalizacao desse jogo é ABSURDA de boa
é bizarra
incrivel
magnifica
a gameplay é uma delicia
os segredos sao mto satisfatorios de encontrar ou resolver
e a mecanica de tu completar o manual guia é genial
maravilhoso .

Decent-ish 2D Zelda inspired action adventure game with some Soulslike elements. Your enjoyment will be largely dependent on how much you buy into the mysterious fake language and in game manual discovery premise. Personally it didn’t land for me, but I can see that aspect being a selling point for some people. Combat is fine, but is pretty limited. You’ll end up doing a lot of backtracking later in the game, which, combined with the steep difficulty curve on the final boss leaves the whole experience on a sour note.

Tunic is a game that takes the cool things from the old retro games, and brings it to the modern age beautifully, albeit not perfectly. It's one of those games where the less you know going in, the better it will be. My two gripes that bring this game down is that the combat is sustainable, but it could be much better, and some of the puzzles are ones you WILL NOT be able to figure out without googling the solution, BUT the game is fantastic and most of the puzzles are thrilling. The music is awesome, and assembling the instruction manual is a really cool way of showing the player what to do. Highly recommend this game!

A love letter to the 8-bit era action-adventure games of our youth.

Okay, everyone's comparing this game to the NES Zeldas, which makes total sense after you find the cover of the in-game manual or notice that our main character has a Zelda costume on. However, I think it is more a tribute to the whole experience of NES action-adventure games rather than a close comparison to the early Zelda offerings. Modern techniques and style are used to capture the same spirit of exploration and growth as you hack and slash and magic your way through a slew of enemies. With the addition of the cryptic language and the pieces of the manual that "tell" you about the secrets of the world, the whole game becomes a nostalgic dream of those bygone days of sitting in a basement room decorated in too many shades of brown but living in pixelated 8-bit lands of pure imagination. Probably even more so if you imported a Japanese-language game and tried to read the manual even though you did not read Japanese.

It truly is a wonderful experience for those of us of the golden (well, maybe greying) 8-bit generation. Mostly. I found myself either too impatient or too uncoordinated to bump this up to legendary status. For example, I would constantly underestimate the reach of my sword or stick. I also spent a number of minutes just wandering, looking for what I was supposed to be doing. My -- potentially self-inflicted -- frustrations led me to get to that place in game where you "just want to finish" which takes the experience down a bit.

To avoid frustration, I started turning to the internet's collective resources instead of flipping through the in-game booklet after I had retrieved a crystal (or maybe two). Perhaps this wasn't the intended way to play this puzzler but it does kind of fit into the experience, right? Some of the ways to find treasures or unlock secrets were so obscure or complex that it would take the collective work of a number of folks to discover the solutions to them all. Maybe this is the game's multiplayer mode? Whatever the intent, if you 100% this game without looking anything up... kudos to you.

In the end, Tunic is a stellar game that's just a bit too frustrating for me to cherish forever like some of those old NES games.

Review from thedonproject.com

This is a very cute, very charming and very likeable game that I don't want to play more of after giving it an hour or two. It's a Zelda type game where you run back and forth in an overworld, while also delving into some dungeons and solving some puzzles, with some of the coziest graphics I've ever seen, relaxing music and the just plain adorable focus on the game having an in-game, Famicom-inspired manual complete with wonderfully cheesy little illustrations and explanatory text, just like a real Famicom manual. However, the fox moves far too slowly for me, in a game where you're supposed to do lots and lots of running back and forth, and I don't know why there's so much combat when it really kind of sucks. Clunky, slow, cannot cancel a single frame of animation. Probably on purpose to be retro, but I'm just feeling frustrated with the actual game while enjoying the aesthetics, and I no longer feel like I have time for a game that's only ticking some boxes for me and not all. If I felt like I had more time to play whatever I want, I might've stuck with and learned to love this game, but in a market as flooded as today's, I'm just going to have to prioritize other games over this. Glad I checked it out, though.