Beard Blade

It's beautiful, but the gameplay is disappointingly sauceless. The end of every level sequence where you chase a guy around to get a sheep back or whatever is old after the first time it happens, and i couldn't bring myself to continue once i got to a very long haunted mansion sort of stage.

Beard Blade is a love letter to 16-bits old school platform games that made me feel nostalgic! It's somewhat of a collectathon game, amd thus I was expecting to have some kind of achievments integration with Steam, but it doesn't, which kind of put me off chasing fully completing the final few stages of the game. But overall, I don't think that takes the shine of what the game has to offer. Aside from a couple of things in it's game design that felt to me rather unfair in the later portions of the game, I think it offers a couple of hours of fun for everyone looking into a light hearted experience. The visuals are very detailed and carefully designed, and the music and sound design are really pleasant.

This was a solid platform puzzler. I had fun playing it. It wasn't anything super ground breaking but it has good level design and fun upgrades. My only complaint was every so often it felt like it was eating my inputs but for the most part it worked as expected. Also, not a complaint but the day/night cycle didn't really add much to the game other than flavor for alternate levels. Very little of the level was the same in each case. It would have meant more to the game if the mechanics changed slightly between day and night and if some of the same core path was used but differently. Still I enjoyed the alternate versions of the levels and there were only a few places I felt like it was unreasonably difficult to get through and that was generally due to the issue of lost inputs I mentioned earlier.