Reseñas

• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2023

  Briefly: - Will immediately remind you of Castlevania - Is apparently short, but I don't have a lot of time to play games so short is fine, although... - ...replayability would be nice. This doesn't seem like a metroidvania at all. - Music is good - Controls are great - Enemies are meh - Map is fine, but I haven't had to backtrack so.. - Love the pixel art, though the environmental graphics can also be meh at times Recommended, but don't expect a metroidvania, and go in knowing it's a short experience. Like Super Metroid, except Super Metroid can be replayed for ~30 years.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2023

  I'm leaning toward refund right now after 1.5 hours. Art style is gorgeous but that's really the best thing about it. It's a basic SotN clone but without leveling / equipment / RPG stuff that adds depth. You just explore a castle with weak level design, meet a ghost teddy bear that heals you and function as a sort of faerie. I've had 2 crashes so far upon continuing the game over. I got an armor suit that let me traverse underwater and turn into a siren that swim through water. There's some fun platforming sections that make a decent use of this.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2023

  I can just say that this game is amazing! The gameplay is outstanding, the controls are simple and give the player a sensation of power and versatility, it’s clearly an example of “less is (much) more. The cutscenes are beautiful and remind me of beloved childhood characters, yet they are fresh and innovative. I’m not a big fan of metroidvanias, but 9 years of shadows, doesn’t seem to keep you backtracking and it keeps driving the story forward. I’d recommend this game anytime!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2023

  It seems like the game has a memory leak problem. Many people are reporting crashes, I watched in task manager and the game easily goes into using 2GB+ of memory and then still growing further.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2023

  9 years of shadow is somewhat decent, but ultimaltely not a very good metroidvania. I do not regret playing it once, but not going to replay it in future. Your heroine explores different parts of a big castle, battling monsters and collecting stuff along the way. Each area has its own theme (fire,water,poison,etc…) and the corresponding power-up that allows you to solve the puzzles in that area and continue your journey. End of the area is usually a boss fight. Also each wing has a few optional bosses. PROS: + very good visual style and general aesthetics. Sprites, portraits, locations, background illustrations and so on are all vibrant and top-notch; + layout of the castle is decent, the locations do not feel samey; + couple of interesting boss fights (mb 2-3 for the entire game); CONS: - enemy variety is not great, a lot of reskinned monsters; - difficulty is insultingly low, you will steamroll like 90% of the game. Srsly, most boss fight (with a few exceptions) you will win with 1-2 tries, regular enemies are literal trash; No option to change difficulty either (even after you complete the game); - traversal is…annoying. The castle is big and you got basically only one way to fast travel – the big central elevator with a few stops. Everything else is you running by foot, with gets really old very fast; - upgrades are meh. Just small numerical increases, nothing fancy. The plot-related powers are also kinda uninspired, ive used only the basic hit attack all game; - the game is rather short for a metroidvania. I did a 100% items run in like 7h TL;DR A game you might want to play if you are starving for a new metroidvania, but nothing really fancy besides the looks. Gameplay gets boring pretty fast.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2023

  the game keeps crashing and im only 3 hours in. fun "ok" castlevania like game. good art... terrible stability. wait for patches and fixes before buying
• gamedeal user

  Mar 31, 2023

  Game look beautiful. Game plays OK (some of the aiming is below par when it comes to the companion and a Steam controller). This game crashes all the time at this point. I'm more than happy to give this a positive review once the crashes are fixed but I cannot recommend this game in its current state.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 1, 2023

  Para ser el primer juego que hace el estudio, se fueron a la mierda en el mejor de los sentidos! Lanzaron un metroidvania que se ve hermoso y se juega de mil maravillas. No reinventa la rueda ni trae nada super revolucionario, pero los giros de tuerca que tiene con las mecánicas son excelentes. El pixel-art es divino y la música no destaca tanto por sus melodías pero sí por el estilo. Muy pocas cosas para criticar, la verdad que la pasé bomba y me quedé con ganas de más (se me hizo cortito, y eso que lo pasé al 101%)
• gamedeal user

  Apr 5, 2023

  I would love to recommend this game for its beautiful art, music and gameplay, however in the last hour of my playthrough I was experiencing multiple crashes within a small time frame so I wouldn't recommend buying it until this is fixed. I would love to change the review once this has been taken care of but it feels aweful to not be able to finish this wonderful game due to technical issues. :) Hope it gets fixed soon so that I can enjoy the rest of the story <3
• gamedeal user

  Apr 13, 2023

  Alright, I just finished the game! Congratulations to those of you who are good at Metroidvanias and are saying that you finished in 5 hours, but maybe take my 30ish-hour playthrough as an example of what this game might hold in store for people who are not super familiar with the genre. I had a great time, the pixel art was gorgeous, and there were lots of memorable bosses. I was initially taken in by the colorfully light-edged aspect of the art, which you can see in the promos. Little did I know going in that those edges are crucial to the gameplay, with different armor sets having different effects - the function follows the form - and the form happens to be very beautiful.