It's worth noting that this is the same developer who made Kingdom Ka, which I wrote an article about here on GoL a little while back. I've been following his progress, and he's had some really interesting ideas about random generation on the "world" map and other issues. It's definitely worth following his development blog on the subject.

He's also on Mastodon [External Link], if you prefer your social media to be open source.

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A lingering feeling that you're not getting the full story unless you know where to look.

That doesn't exactly sound like a selling point, honestly. It's more the sort of thing I'd find frustrating. Hopefully it's not so bad as it sounds.

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From the looks of the YouTube comments, the dev is pretty dismissive of "it looks like Minecraft/test with a few mods" comments. Which, given that it literally does look like that and all he's got is the promise that he's got other things in mind, seems a bit of a bad approach.

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According to the update announcing the change, the dev suggests this is part of the run up to the 1.0 release. From what the dev told me, the early game content is finally going to get some attention prior to that, after being largely untouched for more than a decade.

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Quoting: liamdaweProbably a good choice to introduce a younger audience to the side-scrolling shoot 'em up genre but not good enough for anyone even somewhat skilful at such games.

I think one problem shooters have is that "somewhat skillful at such games" seems to be the base for them. There's no entry level at all, you just need to already be good somehow (or willing to put up with a lot of frustration) in order to play them in the first place. This would be a good shooter for people like me who simply aren't good at frantic shooters.

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I have never seen this played without it being a speedrun. Is it fun to play other ways (like stealth, etc.)?

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Time travel from one medieval looking realm to....another pretty much identical medieval looking realm!

It does look fun to play, but they really don't do much of a job communicating what role the time travel thing is supposed to play.

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The trailer makes it look like movement, even out of combat, is frustratingly slow. Hopefully that's not actually the case, but it's the impression I get.

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Sorry, I'm just giggling about the idea of Japanese developers preferring unpretentious games in a world where the Metal Gear Solid series exists. A lot of JRPGs have a taste for the melodramatic, honestly.

That aside, some of the visuals and the monsters in this look really sharp, and I definitely get that inspired-by-Earthbound vibe, the same way Undertale had it but going in a different direction. From what little we've got to go on from the trailer, it looks pretty fun for folks into that sort of style.

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I've played the first one, but I found I would always die, even when following a guide, shortly after destroying the first portal. Somehow I got the second one, probably in a bundle, but I haven't really sat down and tried it out much. Maybe I should.

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