ENYO Arcade

Not very good! Most of the art is great but very repetitious. The controls are close but not quite tight enough. There are only 5 levels, each taking about 30 mins to fumble your way though the first time, 3 minutes if you are going for a speed replay. Poor level design and the odd choice to let you choose any weapon at any time takes away any sense of progression and makes the whole thing seems pointless. If they limited weapons to certain situations at least it could feel strategic, like an action puzzler. Good music but again pretty repetitious.

ENYO ARCADE, developed by James Mearman, is a side-scrolling plat former which borrows heavily from classic 90’s games under the same genre. Despite my distaste for these types of games, I won’t lie to you. This was a solid experience that a lot more people should witness. In all honesty, I wasn’t too invested in the story. Basically, the world’s a mess and you’re just trying to save the day. But then again, I highly doubt anyone purchased ENYO for an enthralling tale, so I’m not going to linger on it, anymore. What I have to commend the most is, hands down, the graphics. I’ve seen some good pixel art in my day, but damn, this was a sight for sore eyes. A dark overtone of black and purple mixed with the decay of a destroyed utopia. Colors mesh together and every pixel seamlessly coincide to create these beautiful backdrops and settings. It’s a shame you’ll be so busy trying to survive that you won’t notice the developer’s attention to detail. If you can, take a ...

The pixel art is pretty, however the enemies don't have enough contrast or hue differentiation to tell they are deadly. This is true with green dripping slime also. It looks like it's part of the background, not a dangerous thing that will kill you. The game seems ok, but controls are a bit odd. Controls make or break a game like this and it's a tad off. It feels either too floaty or something. They are close but not quite on. Dev/artist really needs to up the contrast on dangerous items, maybe make the slime shimmer or something. It's very pretty, but doesn't read well for split second decisions. I do love the art though, just not as an easy to read "death comes easy" type platformer. I would say this game may work for some, it's not bad, but it's not for me. I don't mind dying a lot, but when I never saw the danger because it blended into the background due to lack of contrast or hue differentiation, that's not good.

There's a few rough edges (which the developer is continuing to fix in updates) but the gameplay feels just right. Recommended for fans of DOS platformers such as Hocus Pocus, Duke Nukem, or Commander Keen.

Cool platformer placed in cyberpunk dystopian world. Nice music, challenging gameplay, dark graphics and low price. The cons are in details. Some obstacles/enemies are too small that you can't see sometimes what kills you and what is just world's object.

Emphasis on Arcade. I like to think I'm at least half decent at games like this, and the total death counter was over 500 :/ Had this been in a real arcade I'd be broke long before I finished the game (Which I did twice) I also have a new found hatred for red lasers, and those goddamn snails! Jokes aside, controls are highly responsive from the running to the jumping and shooting. Weapon variety is nice, so there's more than one play style. Plus the art style is nice to look at, lots of purple and green to look forward to if that's your thing. This one of those bang year head against the wall type of games. One hit and you're dead, learn where enemies are, what they do, whether it's worth killing them or just running past, and messing with hit boxes. Then get mad because one small thing went wrong and you're whole plan explodes into a flash of flying pixels. Only downside (for me anyway) is the game's on the short side, found a few secrets on my second playthrough and if you're the...

This game brings me the memory of "Abuse", with some nice additions. You control the chaacter with keyboard and aim/shoot with mouse, the levels are tough but challanging, you can select a few types of weapon with different attributes. Th best strategy of this game is to destory your enemies before they starting to move if possible, I hate the flying drone which killed me countless times.

Enyo Arcade really surprised me. It is unique but doesn't try to go over the top with gimmicks. It has difficult parts, but you get to start in the same room when you die. Lot's of weapon choices and plenty of different enemies with their own movements and style. The controls feel great and there is a bit of exploration and secret areas to get to with rocket-jumps and other techniques that take skill to perfect. All of this comes with excellent pixel art and music/sfx. The $5 dollar pricetag is more than fair. I have played $10+ games of similar style that impressed me way less.

Each item touted so highly in the other reviews enticed me to pick up this game. But after only ~20 minutes I'm not satisfied. The pixel art isn't particularly stunning. I can't see why it is touted so highly in the reviews. What are the purple fuzzy things? What is the deal with the mech and why doesn't it fit in? Everything is small an overly distorted. You zoom to "fix" it. Fix it? The controls feel off to me. The gravity seems heavy. The wall jumping isn't natural. Or maybe it is the default button layout. Where is the "parkour"? I can't exactly put my finger on it but there are many other platformers I'd recommend before this one.

If the player character was comprehensible and the music was better and the controls were tighter and the weapons were actually useful and the sound design wasn't grating then this would be a pretty okay game.