Frauki's Adventure!

I really wanted to give this game a chance and like it but alas I don't think I can recommend this game. First off the lack of custom controls was frustrating and I ended up using reWasd to rebind my controls. For future reference, default keyboard controls for platformers are generally z jump x attack. Never never use space bar for jump. The music frequently glitched in areas that used to have music but then no music. According to sound/music guy it's not a bug but it seems like one to me. What you see in the demo contains pretty much ALL of the enemies in the game. Which is a huge turn off. Maybe 1 or 2 is missing max. There are 0 bosses in the game. Zero. Not even a last boss. The way the game challenges you generally is to mash a bunch of trash mobs in the same room and make you kill them. But if you are also hit on the edge of the door, the knockback makes you teleport across the door. This happened to me two times. At the end of the game it introduces some slight additional m...

Fun enough game for a while but eventually the balancing kind of goes out the window and the last section is completely bugged. So the game is largely based on you getting locked inside challenge rooms and having to defeat all enemies for the doors to open. Well the last section something (me or an enemy) has fallen through the floor and since the doors backwards are locked you cannot get back/go back to fight that enemy and have to restart the attempt. And since the balancing stopped being fun, I'm gonna stop it here and finish the rest on youtube.

I'm not completely done with this game (I just unlocked the funal area), but what so far I had a pretty good time with it. What really appreciate about this game is how well it manages to differentiate its enemies. There aren't a lot of different enemies overall, but each of them has their set of behaviours, that cleary distignuishes them from the rest and the game does a pretty good job at both introducing them step by step, as well as mixing different types together in later stages, to create more variable encounters. The game also feels really nice to control and offers a bunch of different movement and combat options that help you not only to deal with the various encounters, but also make moving through the space interesting and varied. A last thing i really appreciate is how well Frauki's Adventure manages to create an interconnected space that rarely forces you to backtrack for a long time. It's a bit unfortunate, that there's only one checkpoint so to speak, but you quickly ge...

Surprisingly good! A compact but charming world, not many enemy types but that's good to practice patterns, not many abilities but well-tuned timings to make every fight challenging. The pixel art felt a bit raw at first, but it blends well with the soundtrack and overall tone of the game. The animations are smooth, the hit-boxes are ok, I faced only few frustrating situations (1. the tanks, with their fast punch animation and recovery times, and 2. ghosting through doors and locking myself outside). I see potential for challenge runs.

I'm in love with this game. The controls feel great, the art style is right up my alley, and the music has a groove to it. There's a lot to learn and practice which keeps the game feeling fun and replayable.

Cave Story if it tried so hard to being "Le Super Hard Darky Sowz" and "super funny quirky" while also featuring enemies who're basically just Samurai Jack factory rejects.

I overall enjoyed Frauki's Adventure: good movement and combat fluidity, nice worldmap to discover, unique artstyle, great music tracks and audio design. There are few bugs here and there, and, for my taste, some sprites of the protagonist need some polish. The gameplay difficulty is quite easy at the beginning, but I found the last level to be quite challenging, maybe a bit too unforgiving.

This is without a doubt the most unpolished mini metroidvania I've played on steam. There's no difference in quality between this and free games on newgrounds aside from the lack of flash lag and the pixel graphics. Let's see... - poor controller support - no keyboard rebindings (you're going to have to use sharpkeys for this, similarly to how you get sun wukong vs robot to work) - No support for resolutions other than 1080p or 720p - no map - clunky controls (although at least better than catmaze) - and more If this was for free or costed as much as sun wukong or less I would recommend it, but it costs more than sun wukong vs robot despite being of inferior quality to that game and as such this cannot be recommended.

This game is really fun. The combat is feels great, especially once you start getting good at it, and the world is really immersive -- it feels more like exploring than just progressing. I'm not super far in yet, but unless it suddenly becomes trash in the later levels (and I'm kind of doubting it will), this game definitely deserves more attention. I can't believe I found a game this good just by randomly checking out the new section of the store. I feel like I've found a real diamond in the rough.

Some good concepts, but lacking in execution and polish. Would be interested in what this team/person makes in the future.