Maya Star

Why do I feel like this metroidvania doubled in charm after the first area, it really does not do it justice. It's like you put a lot of love and character into every zone, except the first one, I mean it's typical for a game in this genre to get better with the power-ups, but something about the level design, it was just not good for the first hour, both in terms of visuals and navigation. I would say every area after the town is a lot more fun to navigate, the backgrounds are better, and the enemy patterns are more enjoyable (on a side note, can you link me the soundtrack for the Castle, I really like it). I would say game has between 6 to 8 hours of content with a couple of endings, one of them has an entire hidden zone so you may want to find it. I thought the game was put together very well, many friendly features once you know how to utilize your tools and attacks, such as teleporting between waypoints, or the map that saves the areas of interest, making it easier to get the coll...

A metroidvania that is really rough around the edges. The two biggest problems are that the first world is really poor compared to the others and 3D physics are used for all the 2D sprites. Basically the devs have no idea how to program the mechanics of a platformer and decided to just wing it with Unity's 3D engine. It's the same problem that red goblin cursed forest has. The low price made all of this acceptable but then came the third problem... The save points are spread too far apart while death involves the loss of all progress. The result is that each time you die you're going to have to traverse large areas over and over and over again and unlocking the same secrets over and over as well on the way until you finally manage to reach a savepoint somewhere before dying. After having had to do this one too many times I decided to call it quits with this game. There is better stuff out there.

I have to give this game a thumbs up because it's fine. It works at intended. But ( and maybe it's because I'm spoiled on other indie platformers ) I find my interest waning. Everything is feeling rather "samey". NOTE: I've only beaten the mushroom boss.

overall very good. the game has pleasing aesthetic, visuals and sound design. i am not all the way through the game as of writing this however from what i see so far, the game is very nice. the game is a frantic scramble from checkpoint to checkpoint. if you are not good an 2-D platformers, (aka hollow knight, super Mario bros, big tower tiny square) this game will be very challenging. game play: that is not to say that the game is bad because of its difficulty, rather how rewarding it is when the area is finally conquered. the game mechanics are very easy to use, although i found the initial key bind to be not particularly comfortable. most enemies are unique, and have very nice pixel art*. visuals: i found the pixelated- purple aesthetic to be extremely pleasing to the eye, and all the sprite work to be very life like. it was very clear what was what. although i will have to add that some of the backgrounds are a bit lacking (area 1 as an example) a simple gradient will ...

not a good metroidvania. but not too bad for the ones who make their first games. still get LOTS of improvements to do. + nice music - terrible controls such as fixed jump heights - stupid money system - not good terrain design, and there's only few types of enemy, and their attack patterns are dull - skills are basically designed to open(break) certain walls - bad boss fights, gives too little time for players to deal with certain attacks, and some attacks are even not avoidable because the jumping and dashing system.

It's great for the price, but the roughness around the edges can be very frustrating. Not enough checkpoints.

Really liked this one - if you like retro metroid games, you'll like this one - not too hard, not too easy...

purple