I'm going to coin a term called "Pixel Hypnosis" where a game will have extremely good pixel artstyle, but will be extremely fucking boring to the point of drowsiness. I'm not gonna expand on that anymore, just how I feel about some indie games that go for good pixel art.
Souldiers is a Metroidvania that uhhhh, is boring. You get to choose from three classes at the beginning, and you cannot change. Cool for replayability or bad because they diverted focus between three characters? Im going the latter. I chose soldier and they just have a sword and shield. Sword has like 3 attacks that I can tell (you can get more skills but few and far between). You can block or parry but the parry fucking blows. So, not a lot to the combat and doesn't feel very satisfying. There are subweapons that all feel bad too.
You can switch between elemental types as you unlock them with your right thumb stick, I do like this. Quick changes on the fly that also can facilitate exploration in the overworld along with combat advantages.
The wrapping of this game is also woefully generic. Soldiers in armour, woopee.
Souldiers is a Metroidvania that uhhhh, is boring. You get to choose from three classes at the beginning, and you cannot change. Cool for replayability or bad because they diverted focus between three characters? Im going the latter. I chose soldier and they just have a sword and shield. Sword has like 3 attacks that I can tell (you can get more skills but few and far between). You can block or parry but the parry fucking blows. So, not a lot to the combat and doesn't feel very satisfying. There are subweapons that all feel bad too.
You can switch between elemental types as you unlock them with your right thumb stick, I do like this. Quick changes on the fly that also can facilitate exploration in the overworld along with combat advantages.
The wrapping of this game is also woefully generic. Soldiers in armour, woopee.
Silverhand
5 months ago