Zeran's Folly

EDIT: Kind of neutral on this game still, but I know I'm only still playing it because I don't have a lot else to play at the moment and it's cons are kind of outweighing its pros, so I'm switching to a negative. Overall not a bad game and fun to play through, but does have its downsides. Cons looks longer than pros because the pros are fairly self explanitory, while I want to make sure the cons are fully understood. Get it on sale if you're really on the fence. PROS: *A 2d action platformer that isn't total butt. I've seen metroidvania thrown around a few times, but Zeran's Folly is a little more action and movement based because of how it throws in physics to movement and abilities as well. It also carries over to some of the attacks, which make it fun to try and line up a shot through movement and timing. * I think this is fully a one-man project? I may be confused but that's worth mentioning, considering all the art assets and music for the game. The music is alright, but I norm...

This game goes beyond "suggestive" into juvenile pornographic garbage out of nowhere. What the fuck is wrong with you?

This game is more then NSFW, it is over the line of decency. If you're interested in playing a game with references to incest and sexual child abuse, pick up this game! I was just hoping to jump around and explore a bit with an anti-hero, this is not that game.

Zeran's Folly is a bog-standard Metroidvania with floaty controls, constant pauses for loading, obvious bugs, and an irritating generic soundtrack. In addition, while the game states it contains "crude/suggestive humor," what it actually means is rampant obscenity (not even dirty jokes, just flat-out offensiveness for its own sake). I got as far as the first boss fight, against half of an incestuous brother-sister couple who went to great lengths to make their exact motion-by-motion itinerary clear. (I got through said boss fight effortlessly because half the time when I hit the guy once it registered it as four or five hits.) This feels like a high-school student's programming project, with dialogue written by a potty-mouthed nine-year-old.

Well here's a surprise. A game I bought on impulse turns out to be one of the best platformers i've played in years. The graphic style is cute and detailed, large sprites and well animated. Enemy types are repeated but have a different look based on area and the different areas are unique and interesting. The music is seriously kick ass. From thematic tunes to metal rock, it's worth buying for the soundtrack DLC alone! Combat and platforming in a metroidvania style is this style of game's bread and butter and few do it better. Control is fantastically fluid, tight and responsive, the game is also nicely challenging, but in a very fair way. No dodgy hitboxes or cheap deaths here, if you get hit or die it's because YOU screwed up , end of story and there's almost no other games I can say that about with such certainty. Swapping between different characters with different abilities is key to traversing the levels and finding secrets and boss patterns need to be learned, re...

Gameplay is okay, but it's definitely on the janky side. Most exploration and combat feels pretty lackluster, but it works. Story is fine, it could even be pretty good if not for the characters... which brings me to, the character writing. The main issue with the game is that the only thing written for any of the characters is sexual assault "jokes". When they don't "joke" they try to have sex with and/or rape each other. There's basically nothing else going on throughout the game in terms of characters. Avoid it like the plague.

An enjoyable 2D adventure action game, Zeran’s Folly has been a surprise hit to me. This is a mature game, in that it has quite an unfiltered approach to its writing that is for an adult audience. For me, the writing had a nice mix of dark humor, mature scenarios and feel-good moments. Not only that, the gameplay is a fluid experience of platforming action to get through a variety of levels with distinct thematic looks and enemies. The accompanying music has a healthy mix of various melodies, such as soft and hard rock, each heard in appropriate settings. Overall, this made for a great and memorable time that I would recommend given one isn’t easily offended. After all, one can try the non-updated base game for free on the developer’s website to get a feel for it. The story features Lone, a mysterious individual that has a drive to retrieve seemingly random artifacts, in the hopes that will it help recover his memory of his past. Along the way, he meets a variety of individuals ...

nov 26,2017 all issues i've raised have been addressed by the dev, it is good to see a dev that cares about their game and customers

This game has two difficulty settings: "playable", and "blatantly untested nonsense". You'll find no enemy movement "patterns" in this game, just a screen-filling bombardment of erratic, unavoidable silliness that isn't actually possible to "get the hang of" because nothing has actually been programmed with any kind of consistent rhythm. That aside, be aware that the "fullscreen" menu option in fact means "specifically 1280x720, and nothing else" while the "borderless fullscreen" menu option means "your monitor's native resolution". The game looks absolutely terrible and heavily aliased at anything above 1280x720, though, due to the fact that each and every art asset (and you can see this for yourself in the "ZeransFolly/data" folder) is a fixed-resolution PNG where said resolution is exactly enough to look good at 720p, but no more. I have no words for how moronic of a design choice this is for a 2D title released in 2017, but it is perhaps at least partially explained by the running...

Controls were not optimized for controller use. The jump button wasn't A, and movement with a joystick was a crawl unless you jumped to start the movement. Additionally, the movement and gravity feels slow like you're on the moon. Even if that was ok, the writing feels like a first draft and the comedy feels really forced. I enjoy extremely vulgar and explicit humor, but this felt like it missed the humor aspect.