Medieval - Embers of War

It's not bad, just doesn't seem finished...

TLDR: Medieval - Embers of War is the most basic, boring, repetitive side scroller fighting game of this century. Despite the colorful visuals, It clearly shows it's inexperience; either coding/design/concept wise all together. *pulls hair* [b]BUT[/b] it is a much, much better product compared to their first product: Urban Justice (UJ). That is a piece of crap. it's a bigger crap if you compared it to Street of Rage 4 (SOR4) which was just released on 30 Apr, 2020, which the devs mentioned UJ was inspired by SOR. *crushed the mouse* Non TLDR: Medieval - Embers of War (M-EOW, in short) developed & published by Evil Bunneh. The PC version is released on Oct 18, 2019. On Metacritic (https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/medieval---embers-of-war) it has no user feedback as of this writing. [b]Luckily[/b] In it's current state, M-EOW is a sticky product to recommend. It is a basic functioning product with many design/concept issues that makes it so darn boring/totally turn off. Flat banana ...

Things I like: -It has local co op, so me and my non gamer boo can play this relatively easy game. -It reminded me a bit of Double Dragon type fun. -Does challenge even a seasoned gamer in it's harder modes -Graphics are pretty darn nice and smooth Things I didn't like : -In Local Co op, the keyboard player gets stuck holding block randomly -Slow and clunky battle system -Lack of variety in gender, fashion, upgrades. -No button to go to Home screen/Quit game from the Castle Upgrade page.

Combos. What is a hack and slash without combos. Tried grinding, and it was so repetitive without any real gains. The graphics are good. The hit detection is off. Would love to see an update with story and a little better fight mechanics.

doesnt seem so bad but only 1 button works on my controller (xbox) and no quit option

One of the worst beat em ups available on Steam. Only one of the character classes seems to be worth anything, which means the characters you unlock are worse than the starting spearmen. The enemies are braindead and only appear on one side of you, so challenge is negligible. Also one of the bosses was T-Posing the whole time I fought them.