HIGH Appealing art.
LOW The lifestyle elements feel half-baked.
WTF One weapon is an… electric guitar?
HIGH Appealing art.
LOW The lifestyle elements feel half-baked.
WTF One weapon is an… electric guitar?
HIGH Engaging enemy design. Great platforming mechanics.
LOW One of the cooler combat features is hard to pull off on a controller.
WTF A boss called “Grief” is too real for a game about dead cats.
HIGH Fluid combat and solid build diversity.
LOW Paper-thin story.
WTF The Shredder knows who Plato is?!
GOOD Beautiful, well-crafted environments.
BAD Incessant narration every five seconds.
WTF Leaving the best feature until the end of the campaign.
No Rest for the Wicked is Moon Studio’s latest project, recently released into Early Access.
This new title from the creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps
breaks away from their platforming/metroidvania roots and pivots into a new third person,
open-world semi-isometric soulslike direction.
HIGH The PS1 aesthetic is captured well.
LOW Odd pacing and playing it safe for new players can skew the experience.
WTF Traps… lots of traps…
HIGH An accessible way to be introduced to PC-style RPGs
LOW Pixel-hunting to interact with items.
WTF The “Buttload of Porn” items around.
HIGH Gorgeous visuals. Likable characters.
LOW Buggy and glitchy. Inadequate save system. Too much backtracking.
WTF How did I fall through the map more than once?