Blue Flame

Ever since my first Iron Pineapple video, I have been snatching up and playing almost every souls-like game that looks worth my time. Heard about Blue Flame. Googled Blue Flame, but nothing came up. Googled Blue Flame Twitter, found an Adult Entertainment twitter profile. Looked through it. Realized I wasn't in incognito. Cleared my browser history and came to Steam properly. Added this baby to my wishlist only to realize that it was releasing the next day. Release sale, 20% off, under 10 bucks. Dev diary says game's about 3-4 hours with about 7 bosses and more content is coming. Can always refund it if bad... It's Friday, let's play games. Open game, title screen is beautiful, almost want to just stare at the title screen background, but need to play. Start her up, read some lore, watch a hundred people die, Feels Bad Man. Oh that's me! I start to move, I can shoot, controls are crispy. I laugh at my own pun as I burn bushes and fallen trees. But wait, it looks like gauntlet legends...

Oh dear, this game is relentless, but good. The cons: -Difficult to the point of unfairness. Bonfires are for providing checkpoints and refilling your health. They also reduce your maximum mana (the only way of attacking) substantially and permanently! If you manage to kill a boss, you'll get a little bit back, but I found myself constantly in the negative and started avoiding them all together. This seems like a broken system, bonfires are supposed to provide a sense of relief. -The enemies are incredibly bullet-spongy, really dragging out every encounter and making them tedious. Why on earth does a little archer dude take 8 hits to kill? -You slow down to a crawl and attacking has about one second of delay before a fireball is launched. The enemies, however, may attack constantly without telegraphs much faster than me. It began to feel like my character was inadequate, not my actual skill. -The fireball spread spell only seems to work 3% of the time. I'm very confused on how ...

I really like this game! At first, I was thinking that the zoom level is a bit odd (too close up to my taste), but it works really well. It reminds me of Diablo, in a good way :) The game is fun to play! I love the pixel art graphics and I especially love the details such as the possibility to light up trees. It is challenging, at least for me, but it also feels quite rewarding when I succeed.. The only improvement I would suggest would be to improve the UI a bit, as I did not read in the help how to use the potions and I had to guess and press random stuff until I got it :D

Real EPIC work of art! Nice story. Fairly hard gameplay. Definitely worth the prize. Nice Job!

This game is a souls experience for sure. Main problem is that it was too easy. Fuck the maze tho, that was just not a great experience, im not buying a maze game. That being said tho, was not too bad took maybe 40 mins of running around. Only had problems with the Harypys, all the bosses pretty much was a first try. Game seems too short too. Overall not too bad, but the lack of players that own the game and the smallest community I have ever been in makes it a problem to even google anything about the game. Wait for sale tho becuse, the game is 4-5 hours and you must likely wont be playing it more then once or twice. I hope the devs add more stuff and maybe a Wiki for the important things like achivements and a small guide for getting stuck on directions despite it being a souls like. 1 thing they could add is more options in the settings menu and maybe a ng+