- Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.

Hah. I've gotten better, but am still not past Sister Splinter, maybe I'll give it a few more tries before this releases.

(OTOH I've had no trouble with the rosary economy, exploring and threading beads make rosaries more pleasant than HK geo for me personally)

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I would not trust my machine to a random free game like this. Please beware.

There are no positive reviews with significant playtime.
Dev is Russian and was into web3 cryptobullshit for a while, game was ceded to another account which has a VAC ban, and the one positive review with 580 hours playtime is from a cryptobro with an AI-generated blog.

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Tis good! I still get stuck on bosses (currently both Lace and the challenge room in the same area). The previous boss did unlock a large part of the game which was cool.
There is some stuff I find kinder: rosaries aren't necessary lost on death if threaded on a string (strung on a thread?), and there's a 400 shell limit (not that that second currency seems to matter much) that much reduces the impact of a failed corpse run.

The movement feels good and flows well, I like the way you grab platforms, and the downward dash. Hornet has a personality, thanks to that movement and a good voice actress (not a big amount of voice acting, but what is there during combat is good). I wish they had done a bit more still, as the cartographer's song is on a short loop.

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@R D Olivaw, I have a bottle for Ubisoft Connect, with freebies from back in 2021 [External Link].

I do prefer native apps like Steam/itch.io/Heroic, but Bottles does its job well for the rest.

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we use language models and image models that are trained on content from the internet that’s been extracted without consideration for its copyright or licensing

That's the case of anyone doing anything with LLMs and the current AI cheerleading. I dearly wish to see some of the big pushers go bankrupt with copyright damages.

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this is experimental. None of the developers are using Linux as a desktop OS

That probably won't be a problem for very long, if they accept contributions

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Meanwhile… Anyone considering a Switch (1 or 2) should know Nintendo introduced terms allowing them to brick them remotely. It doesn't look terribly legal, yet here we are:

https://www.gamefile.news/p/nintendo-emulation-hacking-brick-warning-terms-of-service [External Link] via
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/nintendo-threatens-to-brick-switch-consoles-for-hacking-piracy/ [External Link]

In section 2. License
https://accounts.nintendo.com/term/eula/US?lang=en-US [External Link]

Without limitation, you agree that you may not (a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; (b) bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo Account Services, including through the use of any hardware or software that would cause the Nintendo Account Services to operate other than in accordance with its documentation and intended use; (c) obtain, install or use any unauthorized copies of Nintendo Account Services; or (d) exploit the Nintendo Account Services in any manner other than to use them in accordance with the applicable documentation and intended use, in each case, without Nintendo’s written consent or express authorization, or unless otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.

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Who looks to neoliberalism and thinks let's financialize things even more? Gaming hasn't been improved by the integration of gambling and microtransactions, or by industry consolidation and layoffs. And now there are these clowns trying to get the crypto cult of deregulated finance to capitalise on the popularity of the steam deck. I hope they will run out of marks.

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Pseudoregalia is not working well with Intel graphics, unfortunately. I either get a UE4 "fatal error!" alert, or with `force_vk_vendor=-1 %command%`, an OOM kill.

Which is a shame for an N64-inspired game. Its predecessors are very light on resources, and for a successor, Frogun is super smooth.

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Here is the post by Extremely OK Games [External Link].

While this has shaken out other members of the team have moved on as well. Noel & I now want to take all of the (many!) lessons we've learned from Earthblade, wipe the slate clean, and refocus ourselves back to smaller-scale projects. We're prototyping again and exploring at our own pace, and trying to rediscover game development in a manner closer to how we approached it at Celeste's or TowerFall's inception. We still, of course, hope to collaborate with Amora, Kyle, Chevy, Lena, and Power-Up Audio again in the future. Scaling the core team up post-Celeste has ultimately been a failure, and that's okay. We gave it all we've got, and life goes on. We are happy to return to our roots and reclaim some joy in our creative process, and see where that takes us.

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