Ikao The Lost Souls

Ikao is a hardcore platformer/bullet hell game with a nice visual style, a minimistic story, and 2 different play modes. You start the game as a blue two-tailed fox who has lost his memory, so of course the best thing to do is just walk to the right and hope you eventually uncover your memory and your purpose. As you progress through the game you will randomnly run into a spirit and your character will somberly put his head down and have a brief memory of his former love. Progression through the game slowly reveals the relationship between the 2 and what happens and eventually ends in a surprisingly somber tone that I completely did not expect. I won't get into any details here but the story is told well enough and does not get in the way of the gameplay. The gameplay is broken down into 2 different styles. About half the game has you playing as the two-tailed fox, these levels play like a standard platformer. Your fox can jump, double jump, and stick to certain walls. The other...

I have somewhat mixed feelings about [b]Ikao, The Lost Souls[/b]. On the one hand, the game is a challenging platformer and I mostly had a great time with it. But the game is far from perfect. In is my opinion, the main issues are: [list] [*]The core game mechanics feel unpolished and would benefit from some tweaking. You play as two characters, each with a different skill set. The two-tailed fox can walk, jump, double-jump, and teleport (I did not particularly like playing as the fox). The ghost can walk, jump and fly (playing as the ghost is a lot of fun). These are basic skills you will encounter in many platformers. What I disliked was that the jumps of both characters (but especially the ghost) are always of the same height, there is no ‘short jump’ or something similar. This prevents you from jumping in a lot of places because you would instantly die on the spikes above. [*]The double-jump is not very responsive, if you try to double-jump too quickly after the initial jump th...

I gave this game a try since it was on sale and the price itself was appealing to me. Actually It's a very challenging game (went myself nearly to frustration but there was always the motivation to keep going). and I loved the design of the levels and such. If you love platformers and a good challenge, this might be your game.

Gave this game a genuine try. There's some good aspects to it, and ideas present, but it suffers from the issue that plagues many indie games, in that it's just a bit overly "safe" without really ever impressing me. The movement mechanics are pretty bare-bones and the level design doesn't really allow this game to thrive, at least as far as I got (like the 4th little chunk of levels). This is made worse by some mediocre presentation. Visually, the levels change very little in between, even when mechanics are added. The design of the levels is often pretty dull and overly simplistic. The obstacles changed very little from level to level, and there really wasn't much character to any of it; the character art in game really did not impress me, some of the animations just didn't sit right and weren't satisfying to use (the double-jump or the floating ability) and the minimalist storytelling did little to immerse me into this game (and the lack of a cutscene skip feature is kinda upsetting...

I give the game a cautious endorsement, but beware of an issue with this game regarding refresh rates. Set the refresh rate of your monitor to 60 Hz, or you will have a bad time. The characters movement speed is chained to the refresh rate. The higher the refresh rate of your monitor, the faster they will move. At 144Hz, the game isn't playable.

First off, the game wouldn't let me tab out at all, which I consider kind of necessary. Like a lot of small games, there's no options menu and trying to set windowed from Windows and Steam launch options doesn't work. I had to use DXWnd to force it to a window. Works okay once you set up all the options, but it looks like that prevents Steam from tracking in-game time. There are some other smaller issues, but I still enjoyed the game. This is one of the few games where I didn't hate the [url=https://i.imgur.com/7jf8p7R.jpg]Helicopter[/url]-style controls. It feels like you have way more finesse than you usually do. Those sections are hard, but at least it's [b]not[/b] because the controls are awful. The platforming parts are pretty fun too, I liked the moveset. And the aesthetic is great!

It's a good platform game, it looks like a lot of fun.