Titan Souls

A lot of reviews say this game is incredibly frustrating and difficult. I can see their point on the side of the map. It is heavily reliant on consuming a lot of your time to find everything. But either use a guide or deal with it is what I say. When I play games that seemingly "waste of time" is all worth it to me when I find the thing I'm looking for. On the point of the frustrating side, I just don't get it. I myself at least was able to figure out most bosses weak points quite quickly and with ease. While yes the run back to some bosses can be tedious and can make you go insane, once you kill that boss, I can tell you from experience that it is entirely worth it. For reference, my first play through took 2:35:58 with 190 deaths. Is that a decent chunk of time? Yes. Was a third of that time running back to a boss fight after dying? Yes. But once I beat that final boss, it didn't matter. I SERIOUSLY enjoyed this game and that's why I'm coming back to try to 100% it after maybe a year or two. A very important thing to note is DO NOT QUIT. If you quit you will have just wasted all the time you put into the game. Finish it.

TLDR: This game is heavily reliant on you being patient to fully enjoy the experience. It will be difficult. But in the end (as long as you don't suck and take too long) you will enjoy the game.

pretty fun game, a nice challenge, though it took me under 4 hours it was a worthwhile experience, and i look forward to playing on harder difficulties.

git gud

good

this is good game.

Although I only played for a little bit, it only takes about 5 seconds into any fight to realize that this game is designed to kill your soul, and brutally, without mercy, without remorse and without sympathy. The only instructions you are given are how to shoot your arrow and how to roll and run...that is it....that is all you get. No upgrades, no tools, no tokens, no buffs, no other skills, abilities or anything but rolling, running and shooting your arrow and calling it back. There is no opening lore worth mentioning, because you will learn within the first 10-15 minutes that you kill a boss in 1 hit, just like they kill you, and only if you hit their only weak point....I am gonna be neutral on recommending(although it is forcing me to chose) this since i neither like nor hate it, but what I dislike is the difficulty is already at 100/10 from the get-go. So, GOOD LUCK

its peak

Not enjoyable. It's a game for masochists.

I played Acid nerve's masterpiece Death's door before i played titan souls, if i hadn't i might've not played this little gem. Boss rush games normally aren't my vibe, having only played eldest souls before this one. However given my downright amazing experience with Death's door as well as the fact that the games are connected narratively i just had to play this one. The fact that it's one hit kill for both you and the bosses (mostly) made this game quite interesting as attempts were as quick to try as they were to die to. This mechanic paired with the brilliant boss designs makes titan souls equal parts puzzle game as it is a combat game. Ofcourse timing and skills play a big part given that less than 20 bosses still took me 7 hours because of a severe skill issue. However beating them is still incredibly fun & satisfying in no small part due to the satisfying kill animation & sound effect. Sound in general is bloody amazing, especially the music! I'd even say that Acid nerve's biggest strenght is their impeccable music in both games. The game may be pricey for the lenght and content but if you look at it as buying an incredible album with a free game, then it's a whole lot more appealing! The game looks incredible anyways, with stunning pixel art and locales to explore. Story is pretty nifty despite its simplicity, with a nice tie in to Death's door's secret ending! And on a technical level it can run bug free on literal toasters lol. In other words no real reason not to play this one.

4 YEARS LATER AND I FINALLY BEAT IT!!! This game was super frustrating, but it was because of how challenging it was, which is what I like in my games. Don't hold my hand, and this game definitely does not do that. All 19 bosses killed, 397 deaths, 5:39:23 completion time. If you want a challenge, good music and creative fights, I highly recommend.

Fun boss battle game and interesting "1 hit to kill anyone" system, the battles are challenging, fun and rewarding and with many different creative ways to every single one of them, the game only fails at demonstrating the "weak spot" of a few bosses making you question if you are failing at the right thing to do or are just not doing the right thing having to resort to checking on the internet for answers, but those cases are rare, so if you are looking for a fun and challenging boss battler this game is for you.

All boss fights. Not my kind of game at all.

The game is okay... but the run backs are horrible.

Nah this game just outright is bad. your too slow for what thye want to do the bosses generally move faster than you and it makes it so you only maybe a second for room for error. Some people say the bosses are one shots they are not the 3 i fought have mechanics that require you to do something before killing them. although one of them may have been able to be one shot idk for certain as i grew tired of trying pretty quickly it doesnt feel fun at all. definitely don't buy this for 15 maybe 5 but even that is a stretch.

you died

Please go play ITTA instead of this, Titan Souls is simply over priced.

It's one of those games that are more obnoxious than hard.
The camera sometimes focuses on the boss rather than the player, the arrow can get stuck. The hit boxes are scuffed and the controls unresponsive.
spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to kill the Eyecube as the game didn't properly detect when I hit it in the eye, making me think I was missing something.
And there's a veeery long run back to the boss when you die.
Can't recommend.

Fun

some pretty clever boss designs that are pretty unforgiving. I agree that the walk back amplifies the frustration of losing but makes the victory better. speedrunning against my friend was very fun.

Jogo muito bom e Viciante

I like the stilization of the game but the mechanic feels broken. I finished regular mode with the secret boss in around 3 hours. Last boss is totally broken. Music is really cool. I adore that and give additional experience from the game but some bosses are more irritating than challenging. I do really respect The game was made by very few people but I feel like I wasted my money. Game very few times does not explain well what I should do and where I should go. I understand I should explore but I felt lost. Collide boxes are broken, a few times the game didn’t catch the hit so I fought. I'm doing it the wrong way, which confused me when I finally realized I was doing right. the color code does not feel right. Few times I didn’t notice the point because It was a different color than others. And weird language.. I don't understand the point of that, why devs didn’t make that in english. I feel even more lost. Anyway music and design 4/5

The game play is solid, but the decision to have a 5 second death/respawn animation and a 5-20 second walk back, in a game where you are constantly dying, is astounding.

There are some input problems which may cause unecessary deaths, the spawn points are distant from the Titans, but I love this game ~so~ much. Even though it recommends "strongly" that you play it on a gamepad, I couldn't help myself and finished it twice with my keyboard since I don't have a controller with me right now and the experience has been great. Brace yourself for a lot of deaths and having a great sense of gratification once the titans are defeated.

I like to say that I never really drop games, but instead just give them a pause. And after coming back to Titan Souls after dropping it in 2016, I am mostly satisfied in beating this game so quickly after failing so much in it 8 years ago.

Itself presents a mix between Shadow Of The Colossus and Dark Souls, in which you must roam in an empty and barren land in search for enourmous bosses that may kill you - and die too - in only one hit. This makes every battle feels frenetic and calculated, and they will end very quickly, in defeat or victory. To engage such creatures, you are given a single arrow and dodge rolls, a simple gameplay that doesn't overstay its welcome since the 20 bosses are rapid to conquer, even if at the cost of retrying a lot.

Such a neat concept and execution isn't devoid of flaws, unfortunately. The emptied overworld isn't as charming or atmospheric as SotC's, and the runback after dying to a boss quickly becomes very tedious, specially since the soundtrack feels so laidback. Other than that, you may realize that many of the bosses have too much predictable patterns and you can quickly find a hole in their strategy which is somewhat fixed, so you rarely shall feel the need to improvise.

A neat experience which shall take no more than 4 hours of your time, and even when having such problems, it do not fail to deliver a fun and rewarding experience.

Pros+
+Good music
+Good bosses
+Decent pixel art

Cons-
-Roll and sprint button are the same so, you can't sprint without rolling first since you need to hold it
-Gamepad is a MUST-HAVE because, with arrow keys you're limited to aim/shoot your arrows only vertically, horizonally and diagonally
-Long and boring strolls when you are defeated or exploring
+/- Game crashes at the moment you defeat a titan if you're not running it with proton (steam deck)

I got it for 1 buck so It's totally worth it but, if you time is more precious, then I don't recomend it

Don't get this at full price.

Not having button configuration support in a game with two damn buttons is just obnoxious.
Add the fact that gameplay is all about you pressing those two right buttons precisely... and its just rage-uninstall inducing.
If you feel smart and think that steam input emulation should work around it, think again because input emulation freaks out completely and sends the game the wrong inputs. Which makes your roll button shoot instead of run when held, and your shoot button run instead of returning your weapon, because the game thinks you are sending the other input and steam input cannot send the emulation that the game expects.

I would refund, but I got it for 1.41e on a 91% discount, so refunding is not even worth it for me.
I'd rather write this review and warn people of this bad UX design with that time.
Just don't get this at full price.

f u n !

Really enjoyable if you like a challenge. A few achievements that'll keep you playing for a while if you're a real hunter - great game overall imo and stunning art style!

Very good boss rush game

Normally, I don't find myself completing too many souls-likes, but this one's combat is really cool and I am glad I played through this in full ( including the truth ending ). It isn't long by any means though, just an incredible showcase of a cool idea. It is just frustrating enough to get you to that point of thinking there has to be a better way to overcome a boss, and then the solution hits you. Boss patterns are pretty complex and it not always easy to prep for each attack, even after learning them. The world map isn't all that interesting, as it is simply a means to get to the fights, but it visually looks cool. The soundtrack is impeccable, and I like the unique ways of getting to each boss ( except the chest one, that switch is stupidly difficult to spot on a TV screen ). I love the visual contrast of the 2D and 3D elements.
There was a glaring issue with game resolution. Only one resolution centered the game around the character and menu text, while the remaining options were completely off-centered, so I had to work below 1920x1080p. Otherwise, I liked this a lot.

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I hate the walk after dying, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, it's terrible, just incredibly fucking annoying

The bossfights are actually fun though

It is challenging but not rewarding experience when killing titans, beat 10 bosses already but nothing new with the character, for me it is not worth it to keep playing, You die a lot when figuring out the pattern of the boss and when you kill it you move to another area to find another boss to kill. The game play is not rewarding but tedious

Just damn.

The OST is brilliant in how it encapsulates the vibe pretty immaculately, and the gameplay feels satisfactory. Every death feels like it's a skill deficit rather than RNG.

This is a brilliant souls-like that I wish had fulfilled its potential. The controls are pretty straightforward: you shoot, and you dodge / roll.

goat

I don't WANT to review this poorly because the concept for this game is interesting and the story is neat, but ultimately the game is just not good. I can give credit to the pixel art though, I love it.
A lot of what I say in this review is purely my opinion , so take it as you will.

Firstly, the gameplay is very lackluster. What you're going to be doing the entire time is enter boss room, see that the boss has a different type of movement from the last boss (or similar, idk) and you shoot it's core and it dies. Boom, I just laid out EXACTLY how the game works, and combine this with run backs that were seemingly made long in order for you to play the game longer (as many people had already stated in various reviews), you quickly get tired of trying to fight the same boss over and over.
Secondly, in my case, I just can't spend a full hour or so playing this game. I tend to get on for a little bit (like 15-30 minutes) just making progress because I saw the game was in my library, thought "oh, I'd like to play this game again!" and then I just drop it and leave it in the dust for months after. Again, this is just MY case, but others may relate on how they just had their gameplay time just plummet.
Thirdly, there is hardly any replayability. For a first time run, you obviously want to kill all the titans and then therefore kill Truth, the final boss. Okay, there's my goal that I need to reach. Once you reach that goal, and the game is over, is there anything else? Nope, just the same game again but with translations of the titan names. You get an achievement, and... now you uninstall. Some people may prefer a game to have a total ending, meaning you beat it, you're done, but in my opinion I find that unenjoyable. I'd like to play a game again later on, but with Titan Souls I just can't see that happening.

Again, just my opinion, take what I say as you will. If you want more information, just go to YouTube and find videos showing gameplay and people reviewing the game, whom are much better at reviewing than I am.

Arrow go fiuuuuuum

super simple and annoying game. die and respawn over and over to find out pattern for boss beating. no controls settings. got tired after 10 minutes not planning to continue.

This game was worth it for 90% off, but there's no way I could recommend it even at half price. It's got some creative bosses, and the game is both pretty to look at and pretty to listen to. However, I can't get over how frustrating it is to constantly slog all the way back to each boss every time you die (which will be a lot). There's no reason for it, it's just synthetically extending play time in the worst way possible.

I really like the battle mechanic. Nice idea, each boss is a riddle you can solve. You're one hit, boss is also one hit but you have to hit a certain weak point you have to find and find access to. Maybe it would be nice not to have to go to the boss from the respawn point each death, especially that you die a lot.
What I was really missing was the plot. This game is essentially a boss rush and as such, it is really nice, atmospheric etc.. But I don't know who I am, what am I doing and why. There is this one hidden boss that doesn't fight you but gives you some information instead, ok, nice, but that's too little. The world seems to have some mysteries hidden in the past but there's none presented by the game. It kinda gives you a taste of what this game could be but what it isn't. It is just bad compared to e.g. Cuphead, which is also a boss rush but you know exactly who you are and why you fight the bosses, and where exploration is much more satisfying because it doesn't make you expect something more than it is.
Overall Titan Souls is quite a nice game with one unique idea implemented in a proper way but missing some other features. I recommend it if you like hard boss fights (note, it's 2d in pixel art style). I don't recommend it if you like exploration, unsolving mysteries or hidden/complex plot.

I'm leaving this note here to track how much I've improved in this game. Wish me luck!

really good game but too quick

super fun short time game, very interesting concept, super cool boss fights

done it only once on normal mode, there are a few modes, but i wasnt too interested in trying them

a big minus: the overworld is H U G E and you move rly slow, i got lost a few times while looking for the next path/boss

i would recommend getting it on sale, then it's totally worth it

Most of the game is good. Fake final boss was kinda ass and real final boss was kinda easy

This is a top-down boss rush game with a unique system of fighting. The game is sufficiently challenging and the bosses are also unique within their own right, nothing repeats. This as well as the variety of order you can challenge these bosses in allows for this game to be fun, freeing, and memorable. I feel like the final secret boss is extremely difficult and forces you to master the mechanics to beat him. This game is highly recommended and should be played by anyone who loves boss rushes and strategy games! 8.5/10

most mid 2.7 hours of my life too easy not even close didn't even have to run for 1.5 hours of play time thats how they get you

very hard

After I finished the game and beat all the bosses in one run I can say that I really liked it. A game that may seem simple at first because you don't get any abilities along the way is actually more than that, it's about creating a strategy to hit your enemy at the right time in the right place, but sometimes with a little luck you can beat some bosses right the first time. When it comes to the story, it's pretty hard to understand and honestly that's more of an obtional thing if you're really interested in getting informed after you finish the game. The soundtrack is very appropriate, it won't distract you from the boss because it blends nicely into the background. If you're looking for a difficult game with well-made bosses and challenges like more difficulties and HARD achievements, this is a GOOD choice. It would be recommended to use a controller but I managed to finish it without it so it's achievable, however for the hard difficulty I will probably use a controller

omg the run back so annoying

Nice for what it is, wouldn't buy for full price, get it on sale