The Willow Man

The game has a number of issues that make the game effectively unplayable. Dodging's invincibility frames are effectively meaningless as they exist for such a small part of movement that hitting them is effectively RNG. The sanity restoration mechanic that stops the screen from being filled with random bullshit is possibly RNG as it requires you to spam the U button until you restore a section, and if it isn't RNG it means that it sometimes just doesn't work on if you are able to restore sanity. If you don't restore sanity you are going to have various images spawn covering the screen, have a reduced field of vision that gives you pretty much no time to run away from the monster, have your dodges stop working (This also happens at low health), and are going to be inundated with even more noise then is already caused by the cacophonous background noise that is way too loud even when you reduce the sound of it. Furthermore, blocking is next to useless as if you block you are guaranteed t...

This game is not good, but i can see some good in it. It was made by a new-ish solo dev, so i won't be too harsh. Let's get the negatives out of the way: The gameplay is very clunky, it's buggy (i got stuck twice and it required resets), the dialogue is bad (expected, writing is hard) but it's also full of typos wich make it feel like it's a low effort game and i don't think that's the case, and the animation is very limited. Now with the positives: I think the sprites look nice. I respect the ambition the dev had for the gameplay. This could have been a simple "hide and seek" horror game but they decided to give it boss battles, blocking and punishing, a dodge roll, a sanity meter. None of it is well executed but i admire them for trying. The music is good, a few times i found myself thinking "that's a nice tune". The Willow Man himself is a cool character and a good concept for a monster, i like him. Unfortunately, i can't recommend this game for it's price. if it was a free ...