Red Goddess: Inner World

Another game I really *wanted* to like. The art is very nice, the controls were mostly good, the levels were alright... but the gameplay simply wasn't there. The exploration is minimal for a metroidvania, the game is very linear. The fighting is simply boring, and sometimes completely bugged. For example 9 out of 10 hits I landed on golems didn't register, I found myself passing through certain objects, a boss kept summoning enemies on a loop at one time. The game is also somewhat heavy on surprise deaths. Many times beams trigger alaarm, then once it's actually 1hit kill spikes, and another it's literally lethal by itself. Or spikes suddenly popping through walls. Or laval at the bottom of a pit. Then it's loading... and try again. Not really fun at any point, just feels like the devs wanted to "outsmart" the players in a "Haha, got you didn't I?" sort of way. All in all I didn't enjoy most of the game simply because it was linear and boring, but at the same time it felt so close ...

Hmmm... I really want to like this game. But I can't recommend it to you. The game is very buggy. It's crashed twice in the >1H I've played it. The story of all things is a little distracting? So, there is a character that pops up frequently and you have to stop everything and aknowledge them while they're talking. This wouldn't be so bad, except they pop up frequently and without really conributing anything meaningful to your understanding of what is going on. On top of that, there is also a narrator at times as well, but the game doesn't seem to have paced out the narrator's dialogue enough so that he doesn't cut himself off when you reach the next point of narration? Also the platforming is kind of basic and the enemies are very bland looking. I dunno. Maybe this is nitpicky stuff. But I guess Im not a fan of the pacing of the early game and that's probably going to keep me from continuing. This game isn't bad per say, it just has some issues is all.

The game opens with an extremely long unskippable cutscene, followed by literally 2 seconds of gameplay, followed by an ungodly long elevator sequence where you are not in control of the character. Then control is yet again taken from you every time the game decides it is time for me to talk to a character. Game devs, don't do this.

I have to say, this is a neat little game. Animation is superb, music is atmospheric, and the controls are tight. Unfortunatly, it has crashed for me at the 44 minute mark both times I've run it. I'm going to reccomend it based on the notion that I think it has a lot to offer, and I don't expect much from a game under 10 bucks, but I'm also going to keep my fingers crossed that my crashing has been some sort of freak coincidence, and that I won't have to spend my future sessions with a timer running in the background.

Do not buy this game. Having now played both the Playstation 4 and Steam versions of this game, I can confirm that it is impossible to play thirty minutes of this game on either platform without encountering multiple game crashing bugs. During my time with the Playstation 4 version I was able to soft lock the game two different ways before reaching the fourth area. The first was when I picked up the collectible Gem right after leaving the room where you got your first memory before the babysitter began her dialogue, the gate read it as a sequence break and caused my character to freeze in place. I could pause the game, but that was it. After that I reloaded the game and found various progression essential NPC’s began disappearing from the world before I could interact with them. There were also numerous other smaller graphical and collision glitches, as well as a several spelling and grammatical errors, that showed the complete lack of polish and quality control found all thr...

Review from a crappy gamer: Pros: +Neat narration +Smooth graphics +Intense intro sequence +Pretty colors +Simple story. Cons: -Combat Bugs (3-4) -Sudden Difficulty spike near end -Sudden end to story -Not much character development -No reason to replay Overall: *2-4 hours of platforming with a few powers *Steam sale for a couple bucks might be worth it *Can't recommend full price

mostly very good. Aer sstyle is cool, story is starting to get interesting but the text/dialogue is rambling and doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The jumping is a little tricky as it's very hard to tell what I can jump on or not, platforms blend into the background many times. I'll keep playing, I got it on sale so if it comes up for $5 or under I'd say it's an 8 out of 10, at $10 it's a 6/10

I can't recommend this to anyone unfortunately, i was excited about it, but it just feels a bit too bland. It doesn't do anything terribly wrong, but there's not enough that it does to make itself worthy of a recommendation. The story: Its a bit convoluted as its all apparently taking place inside of your soul or your inner being, the world is actually you? Something metaphysical and quite honestly maybe some people will appreciate the uniqueness of it, it comes across to me as bland and uninteresting. I don't usually mind stories that are a bit out there, I loved transistor, but that story worked well because of all the great personalities within it, this game doesnt have that. Its a lot of restore your memories and remember the past events, and the enemies are manifestations of your anger and fear but they're also golems which are being sent by the king to kill you so... which is it game? I always thought trying to be a bit out there doesn't work for this style of mainly combat and ...

Definetly didnt enjoy what i played of the game. combat was bad. so much waiting on platforms it hurt.

I had been waiting a long time for the release of this and was hoping it would be a great game but when it did finally get my hands on it my hopes were shattered. The games looks nice and colourfull and for the first 10 minuts or so things seemed to play nice and smooth but then it happened the game started to stutter and big frame rate drops soon began to show. On certain parts when going up to a higher point instead of it being nice and smooth the whole screen seems to flip to the next screen this also happens on when you try to drop down also. The other thing is I found myself getting bored with the going backwards and forwards meeting the same old but few but far between bad guys who don't really do anything other than move towards you. Boss fights are another drawn out borefest and seem to take an age and by the time you have finished them off you start to think what was the point and when you get to the next one it is more of the same thing. There is also a problem with collis...