Reaper: история о бледноликом мечнике

fighting system and storyline was okay but way too much filler and the movement is horrific; you're often bombarded with random ambushes because they place waypoints far from each other to initiate those attacks. the enemies also are just annoying, even with upgrades you get hit with many projectiles and insta-die or enemies you can't fight because they run from you with the same damn speed. movement system especially dashing is so random; you'll accidentally dash for no reason. you'll also bounce off random things too.

ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

when this game got 'fixed' it became unplayable unfortunately

i wanted to finish off a game i used to play on mobile and i didn't mind the terrible map controls or repetitive battles because it felt fast enough. very unluckily for me this game got updated when im probably 3/4 way through the game, this 'fixed' the game and made it smoother and better functioning, this caused the game, for me, to turn into slow-motion. it felt like playing in 0.5x speed, everything slowed down (not lag/frames), i can't believe this was the intended way to play the game as it now feels unplayable, whatever was wrong with game before, vsync, poor refresh rate, whatever it was, made it playable but now i can't even bear to finish it :(

Very enjoyable world and an okay combat system.
Direct mobile port.
Extremely linear with 0 replayability value. You either have no choices in matters, or when you DO have choices, they lead to the exact same outcome.
Last third of the game feels very messy, with combat encounters being utter garbage - millions of the same 2 ranged flying enemies being thrown at you at once because it's the only way this game seems to know how to make an encounter "difficult".
Final boss sequence is both very grating and rushed, and the boss itself has one attack and relies on 90% damage reduction to stop you from rolling it over. Enough said.

Do not get the wrong impression, I LOVE this game dearly and appreciate the love that went into it. Big fan of this game, but it is SUPER flawed in the one department that you encounter most; the fighting system.
The fights are very tedious and it takes about 3 fights per quest. That's not too bad until you consider the ungodly amount of quests you have to do before beating the game. The story was incredibly entertaining to theorize on, yet it's hard to enjoy the story due to the frequency of battles (especially around the end of the game.) The battles themselves are pretty fun, yet the lack of new enemies and instead recolored sprites becomes upsetting after a while when everything is introduced.
The level design is also god awful in some scenarios. There's one specific fight that comes to mind, where you have to fight flying enemies, enemies that shoot projectiles (that can stun you,) and melee enemies. The catch is there's two platforms, and thorns that surround both edges parallel to one another. thorns do damage when you jump on them, and the gap makes it practically impossible to jump it without taking damage. And unless you have an upgrade to reduce the damage taken from falling into pits, you will lose almost all of your health by falling. By the way, did I mention pits are EVERYWHERE in this game to the point that upgrade is practically mandatory?
spoilers for how the final boss plays out, the final boss was dragged out for SO long, and it wasn't even fun to get through due to the fact the boss has a singular attack it does the entire fight. I want to love the boss to death because of the design, yet it was so frustrating. along with this, the one attack it does has homing stun orbs so if it flies above one of the arena pits, good luck. It took me 6 hours on and off to beat the boss and it didn't feel rewarding rather relieving. I could never bring myself to play this game again because of this element alone.
Finally, my last gripe would be with the bouncing coins. there could be 500 coins total in a chest but because the money bounces, you're going to get 70 coins tops. It really feels like the game had more passion put into the art direction and dare I say story (in which it really starts to pick up around the end) had more love put into it than the main part of the game itself.
The game is beautiful. But please just watch a playthrough.