Разработчик: The Vanir Project
Описание
It takes place in a diverse world, full of enemies from your worst Nightmares!
In your quest to save the Noctum from a self-proclaimed ruler, you'll meet weird and unique friends and foes. But tread carefully when talking or interacting with NPCs: Quirky characters and their reactions can have game-changing consequences. Fast reflexes and a taste for exploration are key if you intend to collect rare items, vanquish enemies, and eventually face your deepest fears.
This story takes place in Donorok, in the state of Noctum. After the King of Noctum, Aster, disappears, chaos rules over the world. The relationships between Monsters, Mongos and Dreamers are completely unstable, and Donorok - the land so heavily affected by the chaos - slowly absorbs terrain from the surrounding regions.
Balder has taken over and has ordered the monsters to retain any child who falls into the Nightmare. The key to continuing his rule is with the Nightmare Boy, Billy.
A colorful palette and an aesthetic straight out of your worst Nightmare! Main character animations are made up of over 500 drawings. Each level has its own unique enemies and atmosphere.
- Character control is responsive and dynamic. As you progress through the story you will discover new abilities such as double jump, triple jump and hanging on walls. Powerful spells, explosives, and friends along the way will aid you in untraveled paths.
- As the player exploring every corner that forms the Nightmare World, you will slowly complete your map.
- There are many collectibles throughout the World that will decide which of the different endings the story concludes with.
- Characters on your journey will offer advice, but it's up to you to take it - or not!
Each scene has its own musical composition and atmosphere. This provides an immersive experience and truly surrounds the player in the Nightmare World. This has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of Vic Hernand.
Nightmare Boy started out as a way of learning programming and game development. We’ve ended up making a game we have loved to play. We’re an Indie team of just 2 people: Mr. Garcai and Víctor Ávila. All graphical assets are credited to Mr. Garcai - illustration, design, scenarios, etc. He’s the creative mind in the team. Víctor takes the programming, development, animation integration…and puts all of Garcai creations to work!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i3 (3.2 GHz, 3 MB)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Graphically, you hardly know what is an enemy and what is part of the background.
There's no clear indication of what platforms are passable.
Too fast respawn of enemies.
start out ok, intriguing story. control is not tight but bearable. but man the backtracking is horrendous. also, the hero runs sometimes too fast for the screen to catch up, resulting in unfair hits...
all in all, not recommened.
this game is really addictive
I wanted to like this game, but the controls are awful. It feels like you are playing an Ice level the whole time, I got as far as the actual Ice level and quit because it was unplayable.
Cool graphics. Controls are nowhere near as good as the store page would imply. Jumping has an actual invisible cooldown, it's impossible to jump again immediately when landing. You'll have to wait about half a second at the least.
It also boasts a decision system where your choices influence the game. This would work much better if it DIDN'T ingrain them into your data. You can die or kill yourself after making any choice but the game is gonna stick with what you picked.
Basically it's probably very easy to fuck over your own progress by picking the 'wrong' dialogue options.
As other reviewers pointed out, the game uses a permanent old TV effect which you cannot disable. The few settings options that are offered are for sound, resolution and m+k/controller options.
I'm probably not going to continue playing this game as all these little things combined with seriously slow and boring dialogue and unskippable cutscenes which are also slow.
I want to like this game but so far I am hitting some major sticking points that make this game incredibly difficult to recommend.
First the controls feel incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes double/triple jump just don't trigger. You can be spamming your jump button and have no response from the game. This includes attacks either sometimes not working at all or just not connecting with enemies.
Wall grab is incredibly inconsistent when jumping off a wall. Sometimes you jump short distances, sometimes long. I thought I was holding a direction wrong on the d-pad but that turned out to not make any difference. It felt random.
The little creatures that the game establishes early on that you should not kill are everywhere and can be killed by just about anything you do. One of the most aggravating things is sometimes enemies will just stand on a group of them or these things will hide behind a chest which you need to attack to open. This means there are points where you pretty much have to damage boost through enemies or avoid opening chests if you want to avoid incidentally killing these things.
If I am going for a run through without killing any of these things the game should not make it so difficult to avoid them or so easy to kill them. I think so far I have only encountered boss/save rooms where these things are not just slapped all over the place.
(It would be great if you could make the choice early to kill or avoid them, That way it allows for players to choose which path to take in a play-through instead of just hoping you don't accidentally kill them and never notice)
Bosses can range from aggravating to leaving me confused. The clockwork giant skeleton is a great example. If you are on the right side of the room the hitbox for it's wave attack is larger than if you are on the left side of the room. It is also a boss where sometimes touching it can damage you and other times not with no real indicator as to why. This is incredibly confusing and makes the game extremely difficult to figure out if the bosses do not play by consistent rules.
Visually the game looks interesting, but the forced scan lines make this game headache inducing to play for long periods. The ability to turn off the forced scan lines would be hugely appreciated.
Saves costing gems is fine at first but when the save cost tends to ramp up faster than gem intake it seems to encourage farming/grinding for gems which feels less rewarding and more like a cheap tactic to increase play time. Having cost for saves ramp up with area might be a better system to give for more natural pacing of the price increases. As it is now if I run into a few tough areas and save a few too many times I'll just be farming between every save.
The fanfare for receiving items is overly long and makes receiving items just dread inducing. Anytime I have received an upgrade its pretty much the game's way of saying "You're sitting here for another 30 seconds to a minute"
Cut scenes cannot be skipped and should you need to restart the game(For instance in cases where you accidentally kill one of those little creatures) you'll find yourself waiting for multiple minutes to slog through some of them over and over again.
A shop keeper that has vital items for progression can be locked out entirely if you don't lie to him. If there is no alternative location for these items as other reviewers have pointed out then there should be some way to get the shop keeper to sell to you eventually (Maybe at a higher price or open the shop via a quest line).
At the price I paid for this I cannot be too mad, but I am glad I did not pay full price for this game in it's current state.
I loved the game. The art style is cool and the game-play can either be really easy or really hard depending on which difficulty setting you decide to play it on. It is a fun little metroidvania that easily used up ten hours of my life getting most of the achievements. The last three I don't expect to be too tough on easy mode, except for the pacifist achievement which I think will be more of a pain in the butt than the rest of them. Those damn mongos are everywhere and it is tough not to kill one on accident...
If you like metroidvanias and bright colors this may be a game for you.
There are two secrets that I couldn't figure out though and they may be connected. There is a trap door at the beginning of the game that I can't open for the life of me and an area at the end of the game that I can't quite reach. If anyone figures out how to open that damn door please post the solution to the discussion boards...
EDIT: I got the last 3 achievements in one final play-through on easy mode and it took about 2 hours. The pacifist achievement was still annoying though...
I came across a review of this game in a magazine and decided to give it a try. Turned out to be one a great surprise, a good reason for trying more indie games. I had real fun and would definitely recommend it, specially for the ones who feel nostalgia for 2D classic games such as Castlevania
play it with trainer, metroidvania style, good game, but difficult.
Really loved this game. Aesthetics are amazing, and the story has a lot of hidden depth. At the beginning I was wondering if I was imagining some meanings, but as I progressed in the game I realised it was all carefully planned. Pay attention to the dialogues, as they´re really good. Maybe it´s a bit too difficult though, and better map or guidance to decide your way would be appreciated.
Just finished it, but I´m replaying it again as I didn´t get all the Asher pieces!
I defeinitely recommend this game!
fun but challging game.
The game is a good platform/metroidvania with smooth controls and nice graphics. I would not say it's a masterpiece but it's worth playing.
I can't say that I don't like the game, as, conceptually, I do. Unfortunately, the faux-interlacing effect that the game has destroys my eyes, and gives me a headache after ~15 minutes of playing. We moved away from interlaced monitors for a reason, and it wasn't because an artificially-generated interlacing effect is somehow less annoying.
Unfortunately, as another reviewer mentioned, there are no video settings at all. No option to choose your resolution, no option to disable the interlacing effect, and, seemingly not even an INI file I can edit to change settings. It checks your hardware, and sets things how it feels like they should be configured, and that's all.
Add an option to disable interlacing so that I can get into the game a bit, and I might recommend it.
Edit: The game is much more playable at 1080P, thanks to the new resolution settings, but the interlacing still bothers me - though, not nearly as much as it used to. I would still like to see the ability to disable the interlacing effect - though, being able to set the resolution to my monitor's native 1440p might help enough to get by. Here's to hoping it continues to improve.
Thanks for listening to your customers. Hopefully I will be able to play soon, to be able to give you a full updated review... but we will see how long I can play with the interlacing effect!
No options to change resolution or pick desired viewing mode such as windowed, borderless, or fullscreen. This game forces a specific resolution in fullscreen because reasons. Cannot recommend this to anyone with a basic feature such as viewing preference customization removed for the end user.
This game is awesome, pure and simple. ( And I own a TON of platformers ) I will edit this review as I progress in the game...
This is a really cute Metroidvania/platformer. It is the right amount of spooky for Halloween and has a lot of charm. There are many colorful enemies, backrounds and friendlies, which is really refreshing in our current dark gloomy trends in gaming.
At the time of writing this I appear to be about 75% along in the game and around 5 hours in. This game seems to be a little on the challenging side for a mostly casual gamer like myself. I did end up switching the difficulty to easy, but that's after playing through a ton of Cuphead recently and getting tired of dying a lot in.
I do want to make a point to say the music is really good. It helps to push the game even more towards Castlevania, which is great for me.
For under $10, it's a great game for fans of Castlevania, or for people that like Metroidvanias and want something a little different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEoHf17H-g
A really fun little Metroidvania game that is literally family friendly. A 5 year old can play this and enjoy it and a 50 year old can play this and enjoy it as well as everyone in between.
The graphics are charming, the combat is rewarding and challenging right from the get go (depending on set difficulty). Has a nice retro filter if you're into that, it can be toggled on or off, so you don't HAVE touse it.
Definitely worth the 10 dollars it costs.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | The Vanir Project |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 02.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 59% положительных (17) |