Stones of Sorrow

What was I thinking about when I bought this piece of garbage.

Hello everyone I did a video review on the game highlighting the pros and cons. This game does need some polishing, but the overall concept is really interesting. In it's current state right now I wouldn't recommend it. Video Review: https://youtu.be/Pp-SV7PHR6s Brief overview of pros and cons Cons - No Main Menu - Not Enough Tool Tips - Underdeveloped UI - Jumping Mechanic - Music - No Platform Design Pros - Art Style - Gore - Zoom Out Minimap - Variety of Weapons

Just, what the fuck. You're greeted instantly by a terrible voice-over story with no background music, bad vocal quality and editing, and a painful accent, which ends with as much abruptness as it begins. Immediately you're thrust into fire and death. The soundtrack tries just as hard as the UI and the controls to confuse and terrify you, immediately blasting you with metal riffs that personally sound like they were designed to make your ears bleed as soon and as often as possible. I know there are a lot of artistic decisions here - but the game feels as though it was coded on the same stone tablets the art was drawn on. It's clunky, patched-together, and even though it looked like there was a lot of interesting things going on - the lack of visual clarity (both with the small, scrunched up font, and the general unpolished feel of the whole game) really made this not worth getting into. Honestly, I would have been a lot more harsh with this game, but from what I understand, the dev is ...

This game will blow your mind! Like, where else can you play a game so innovative like that? Cave paintings killing each other, a cool variety of items and, in the middle, a story well arranged and nicely told? Holy crap! You'll say "why didn't I play this gem before?" (ps: you'll die a lot, but that won't keep your hands off the controller. You'll beg for more or, should I say, beg for gore?) I've already "finished" Stones of Sorrow 4 or 5 times and now I'm in for the achievements, mainly 'cause this state of the art item of human badassery -both the pre-historic cave art/21st game development- totally deserves it. There are so many cool things to say about it I don't know where to start. But this so called cave painting procedural death-a-ton of a game is for the tough dudes and dudettes only: the weapons, carved in stone - wildly cool and varied - can bring a sense of "rewardness" when you get to slash a big guy or some gigantic boss and knocks the mofo down. Something from out of ...

I gave it a shot because of the low price, but it's a bit unpolished. I feel like it was worth the price to give it a go, but Steam asks if I recommend it or not and I have to say no. It has an interesting art style and concept, but everything about the gameplay feels slippery and unrefined. Movement feels like you're on ice, the player character keeps moving after you let go of a key which is frustrating, especially when you fall off a cliff (there's no fall damage, but you have to jump back up again). Levels are uninspired, there's no value to the verticality and not much to reward exploration, levels being too small to really explore anyway. Attacks are fiddly, it's the sort of game that queues up commands so if you spam attack it will sit there and do as many attacks as you clicked the mouse for before you can do anything, which you can get used to but sometimes the game just doesn't seem to register commands. Pressing a key to turn and face an enemy often wont, why I couldn't sa...

Horrible game.

It might get a pass as a free flash game but the lack of flair and polish makes it a waste of time when there's far better action platformers out there for free or a few bucks because this game never left the stone age when it comes to gameplay.

I've enjoyed this game overall so far, yet definitely see room for improvement. One minor technical issue that turns me off is the lack of true full-screen, another is the sometimes too-narrow spaces in levels that you can fall through, yet not jump back up. Pretty good overall, though. First, the pros: Combat is paced well, and on reading the dev's responses in other reviews, is made in a logical fashion. The cave painting style looks pretty cool, though it would be nice if the borders/terrain looked more natural, like the curve of an actual cave. Perhaps in that vein, some set spawn points could be larger groups of paintings in the background/foreground that enter the arena and diminish as you kill them off? The money management system increases the difficulty in a good way. Bonfires. Now the cons: The music isn't bad, but it gets repetitive. More variety (not outside the genre, more death metal) would be nice. The endurance bar is hard to keep track of during combat. The enemy sp...

The intro to this game, man, this is Real. Pure, brutal underground software, from the soundtrack to the difficulty. Take time to read the control scheme (Esc)-- progression through skill is pretty rewarding. Making the endgame harder from death is unrelenting. The Best dollar I've spent since I was 10, buying the styrofoam Focke Wulf aeroplane toy from the local convenience store. As a side note, digging into Neoandertals on YT because of this game was well worth the asking price. Only gripe is the 'slippery' nature of the main character's movements in gameplay. Otherwise \m/

This is a tedious game with no replay value after it's been completed. The only thing that makes it last long is how easy it is to die, and once you've worked out the formula that will almost never happen. Don't waste your money on this awkard little game that should've stayed on Newgrounds.