Feudal Alloy

tutorial dint make any sense at first and its just overall mid

I personally couldn't even finish the game, as the controls on keyboard were insanely hard to use, and the controller was better, but there is still no mapping option, and as a person who plays many games with controller, I accidentally wasted many items and acidentally pressed other buttons. A mapping option would be great.

The game has good design and is well animated.
Now here's why you shouldn't get this game: The story sucks, the controls are terrible(especially for PC).
There's no point in having a checkpoint if the defeated villains keep getting spawned. The instructions to do in game are not there and hence doesn't really help the story. There's no details to items in inventory on how they help my character in power balancing. This game becomes torture after a while. The developers can still fix it if they change on some of the things I mentioned.

great controls and art design, but too many enemies that are too persistent. I quickly found myself feeling like I needed to grind to build up my character, but even after getting some good armour, it still wasn't fun

Great game. VERY challenging platforming though so you really got to have skill and even then it will take some patience. The game doesn't do a good job at giving you enough XP to upgrade as much as you would like. You get just enough to MAYBE upgrade one full tree. I did a little of each but it's a bummer that I didn't get to experience the higher tree bonuses. The keys can be a PITA to find. I had to find 4 that I was intended to get early game but never found and before running down the final hall after the last boss, I went and back tracked and found them. I didn't get all the chests and I feel like I saw 100% of the map so they just have hidden some exceptionally well. My final critique is that the story is just laissez-faire; the opening is ok since we need some kind of motive but then you get to the 2 bosses (which there looked like there were more than 2 bandits that stole the stuff) there is no fuss whatsoever. They just silently die. The end scene is like "he did it" and that's it. Felt out of place given how passion-made this game feels otherwise. It is a beautiful and well made game.

This game is just plain fun. I don't play very many metroidvanias, but this is definitely a good one. It's a little more on the challenging side, but it more than makes up for that with its visual charm.

The only big hangup I have is that the controller inputs are completely messed up. It might be because I use a dualsense controller, but I did see other people having issues with xbox controllers as well. I did end up mapping the keyboard inputs to my controller and that has been working pretty well (I also uploaded it to the steam controller configuration for this game so you all can skip the painful part of sorting it out).

Feudal Alloy

Feudal Alloy is a fun, small- to medium-sized metroidvania with nice graphics, an irrelevant story line, mostly good controls, hard-to-understand upgrades, and an interesting checkpointing system.

+ good-looking game
+ nice design of areas - graphical and structural
+ interesting checkpoint system
+ soft-spot: upward and downward slashing
0 souls-lite
0 HUD going for looks rather than info
0 upgrades (skills & items) are too vague
- single savegame slot
- some attacks seem hard to reliably execute
- inventory has strange size and is not convenient
- pet peeve: rare unexplained damage-on-contact
- pet peeve: skills cannot be disabled

The story delivers some motivation at the very beginning of the game and is not touched on again until the very end.

You find the occasional checkpoint which can be activated to effectively select it as the active respawn point - you appear here if you die. (Activating a checkpoint also heals you.) However and unusually, it does not save your state. Any item you consume or drop will not come back on death. On the plus side, anything collected will not vanish on death - including items, money and experience. I like that. It makes me recklessly run into challenge rooms because even if I die I end up with more money and level progression.

The inventory has 90 slots. There are less than 120 different things in the game - some stackable consumables and mostly equipment. Why not allow all of them in the inventory?
There is also no easy way to filter or sort the inventory, or compare things in the inventory to equipped things. Sorting can be done by dropping things and picking them up in the wanted order. Comparing equipment is done by equipping - the cursor shows the "stats" for the selected equipment in the inventory, equipping it will usually put the previously equipped item under the cursor.

Is it souls-lite? Arguably. Almost all situations can be learned and damage avoided, and learning does not take long.

Pet peeves and soft spot
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[li]Pet peeve: Some enemies can deal unreasoned contact damage, i.e. they are not doing anything and have nothing like, e.g., spikes.[/li]
[li]Pet peeve: Once a skill is bought it cannot be disabled.[/li]
[li]Soft spot: I was delighted to find the game has "Zelda 2"-like upward and downward slashing.[/li]
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Upgrading is not supported by numbers and the effects are hard to judge. There is a skill tree and equipment comes with stats. (There are also some progression rewards that may add combat options in addition to their metroidvania aspect.)
Apart from the starting gear, equipment (weapon and armor) come with two features where a feature is composed of a type and (presumably) strength, e.g., "Damage *", "Damage **", "Armor *". An item may have two features of the same type.
But "Damage **" is not double the damage of "Damage *". An early upgrade to more damage feels almost inconsequential, i.e. the first enemy requires 3 hits before and after the upgrade. Although damage dealt will increase noticably eventually, this initial change is disheartening.
Similarly, skills have only vague descriptions indicating, e.g., melee damage will increase. There is even a "Parry" skill which I am convinced has no effect at all. It does not let you parry. Instead you need to get a reward called "Block" that lets you parry, independent of the skill.
Changes usually make themselves known when fighting harder enemies.

When falling, the camera may be unable to keep up. This can make your avatar needing to react to danger without the player seeing what is going on.

Altogether, I had fun with and recommend Feudal Alloy.

A personal favourite of mine. The challenging gameplay plus the amazing visuals and music come together to create a nice gaming experience to remember. Hoping one day there will be a part 2!

5 years ago I watched a trailer of this game and got hooked by the art style but unfortunately, I'm in that era in my life that I don't wanna waste my time on worthless entertainment. the game does not have anything new to offer. it became really repetitive after 4-5 hours. basic level design, no story or storytelling, basic gameplay, and ... . other than the beautiful art style there isn't any good or special thing about "FEUDAL ALLOY". Waste of money and time in my opinion

not the best but not the worst, the gameplay is classic metroid style where you unlock abilities going further, not too many varieties of monsters and only 2 bosses, the game is not too hard and i found all the collectibles without too many problems.
sometimes the hitboxes are terribl and is difficult to know where you will land when you are falling, and i got stuck sometimes under the map against the final boss, but for 2€ (the pric i paid on one sale) is not too bad 6.5

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i actually loved this game and couldnt put it down till i beat it... be warned tho there is ton of wonk and a buncha jank. but i can see some thing special in this game... if they make another game kinda like this its gonna be great.... fingers crossed

fish

The game was released five years ago, but it still seems unfinished and unpolished.

The art style and animations are very good, but everything else isn't. I played the game for half an hour and ran into a bunch of bugs/problems:
1. The skip button jumps and rotates all the time distracting me from enjoying cutscenes.
2. Default keybindings don't bind WASD to moving, which is not too bad because the game has control settings.
3. The developer has "Use Physical Keys" disabled in Unity Input Manager, which makes default keybindings unplayable on non-QWERTY keyboards.
4. The game allows me to use keyboard in menus to focus different buttons, but does not allow me to press them by pressing Enter or Space. In other words the game forces me to use mouse in menus despite the fact that character is controlled purely by the keyboard and the mouse is not used at all outside of menus.
5. Help screen takes up 90% of space of the game menu, but lists the default keybindings not the ones, that I assigned in the control settings, which makes it useless. By the way control settings are accessible only from the main menu.
6. I accidentally pressed something and now my character sits on the ground and refuses to walk anywhere. I failed to understand what to press to make him stand up.
7. In-game menu contains only two buttons: "quit" and "continue". I tried to quit in order to access control settings from the main menu in order to fix problem#6, but mouse is invisible in this menu, so I failed to press quit.
8. Because of the above issues, keyboard controls are unusable and I was forced to use a gamepad. The game splash screen was recommending to use a gamepad when I launched the game, but it didn't say the game was unplayable without one.
9. The surface colliders are very inaccurate: my character starts falling off a cliff when visually he is standing with both feet on the ground. On second thought, it seems there is no fall damage, so accidental falls off cliffs are not so bad.
10. I found a big room-like machine that did something to me. I thought it was a save point, but then I died and it wasn't a save point, so I don't know what it is. I don't understand much in this game, I wish there was a tutorial.
11. After moving from room to room, I can't go back right away. I have to walk a few meters inside the room and then return to the entrance, which is annoying.
12. After half an hour of playing, I died and respawned at the very beginning of the game. Are the save points very far from each other? Did I miss them despite trying very hard to press all the buttons and interact with all the objects on my path? I don't know.

I really like the visuals in this game and really wanted to play it, but there are too many things that annoy me.

Ёсць беларуская мова 10/10. The game has the belarusian language 10/10!

good.

great game

Can't really add much to what others have said. It looks nice and it's fun for a while, but gets repetitive fast. Equipment is pretty much cosmetic. The stat bonuses are so minimal that they don't really matter. The story is pretty basic, no background lore at all. I can't find a reason to finish this aside from my desire to not leave things unfinished. Unless a game is terrible, I'll keep playing it. This game isn't terrible, so I'll finish it. But I'm not really enjoying it.

I got it for $2.50, and it's not bad for that price. I had enough fun in the beginning to justify $2.50. But I'd never recommend paying full price for it. It's just not worth it. I hate saying that. I really wanted to like this after watching someone play it on youtube. But I just can't recommend it unless the developer fixes those issues. Which they probably won't.