Dormant World

Slow paced, sluggish control, boring combat, ear piercing music, hideous graphics that look like they were drawn by a 1st grader, uses a password feature instead of a save because that makes sense in 2018. This game has no redeeming qualities at all, avoid it even if it is on sale.

[h1]SUMMARY[/h1] A Zelda 2 clone, and a bad one. I wanted to like this game. It had a quirky little pixelated art style that's semi-realistic in its dimensions of characters, it has a good deal of adventuring and upgrades to health and regen, and it progresses nicely. There are brick-walls of design though, that HAVE to be addressed. FIRST; it uses maze-like design to make up for its short length. Around 10 to 15 minutes of each level will be figuring out the proper order in which to take paths off screen and walk through certain doors, and it will re-orient you and take you in loops, disorienting you and making things much harder than they should be. I don't care what this was skimmed from, it's trash design. It's fine to have 1 section like this, maybe 2 in a game, but that's it, and for a game as short as this one seems to be, it has zero excuse for having it as much as it does. SECONDLY; abusing pixel-perfect jumps over insta-kill death pits, and just in general. The only time a...