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Alwa's Awakening / Alwa's Legacy
So the latest games I completed were these two. I have Legacy on steam apparently, but I played both of them on the PS4. The Awakening one I have is the 8-bit one.
In Awakening you wake up, summoned to the land of Alwa to defeat the bad guy so you can get sent back home. It's a puzzle platformer that's both challenging, a bit unforgiving at times, but not so hard that it feels impossible. I've seen people complain about the "clunky magic system" (you use one button to switch between one of 3 abilities and you end up needing to go switching fairly quickly at times) but honestly I never found it that difficult. Timing is important of course, and I certainly messed up a fair bit, but again - doable.
Apparently Awakening took 12-13 hours for me to complete, and I got 100% secrets uncovered. There is a super cryptic puzzle in the game via hints here and there but it's not part of the 'secrets' you need to uncover/find to complete the game. It's basically an Easter egg of sorts. Apparently took the community a few weeks, pooling information, to crack the code. After I got 100% cleared I found out about it while reading some discussions on steam.
The ending was rather unfulfilling however, but then that's how they set up the second game, Legacy.
Legacy had you going through doing all the same things with a new land of Alwa. You're still limited to mainly 3 main spells/powers but they upgrade quite a bit more. I can't remember off hand how much time I spent on this one but it was probably close to the same amount, probably a little more as it took a little longer to obtain all of the secrets. The last few blue orbs (used to help power up your skills) were things that I had already found but kept having 'duuuuh' moments with trying to figure out how to reach them. This was in part due to not having some of the necessary power ups handy in order to obtain them, or just for some reason didn't notice when to use them. By the end of it however I still got all the secrets.
Legacy has a Pacifist mode as extra challenge - go through the game without killing anything. I started in on that but you leave pacifist mode as soon as you kill something. I accidentally killed something and lost pacifist mode and since it got saved there was no way to get back to it without redoing everything apparently. So ... yeah, not going to bother with that crap. I'm sure I'd rage if I got 80% through the game and then lost pacifist mode. In pacifist mode you don't even fight the bosses - however you manage that by finding specific rose points before reaching a boss which will de-spawn it. If you get to the boss without finding it, you'll either have to get a game over or lose pacifist mode. When I think about it, this is likely what happened to me in my run. Wasn't a boss, but pretty sure there was no way to get past it without killing or de-spawning it. Oh well.
Anyway, fun games. If they put out a new Alwa game I'll probably pick that up as well.
In Awakening you wake up, summoned to the land of Alwa to defeat the bad guy so you can get sent back home. It's a puzzle platformer that's both challenging, a bit unforgiving at times, but not so hard that it feels impossible. I've seen people complain about the "clunky magic system" (you use one button to switch between one of 3 abilities and you end up needing to go switching fairly quickly at times) but honestly I never found it that difficult. Timing is important of course, and I certainly messed up a fair bit, but again - doable.
Apparently Awakening took 12-13 hours for me to complete, and I got 100% secrets uncovered. There is a super cryptic puzzle in the game via hints here and there but it's not part of the 'secrets' you need to uncover/find to complete the game. It's basically an Easter egg of sorts. Apparently took the community a few weeks, pooling information, to crack the code. After I got 100% cleared I found out about it while reading some discussions on steam.
The ending was rather unfulfilling however, but then that's how they set up the second game, Legacy.
Legacy had you going through doing all the same things with a new land of Alwa. You're still limited to mainly 3 main spells/powers but they upgrade quite a bit more. I can't remember off hand how much time I spent on this one but it was probably close to the same amount, probably a little more as it took a little longer to obtain all of the secrets. The last few blue orbs (used to help power up your skills) were things that I had already found but kept having 'duuuuh' moments with trying to figure out how to reach them. This was in part due to not having some of the necessary power ups handy in order to obtain them, or just for some reason didn't notice when to use them. By the end of it however I still got all the secrets.
Legacy has a Pacifist mode as extra challenge - go through the game without killing anything. I started in on that but you leave pacifist mode as soon as you kill something. I accidentally killed something and lost pacifist mode and since it got saved there was no way to get back to it without redoing everything apparently. So ... yeah, not going to bother with that crap. I'm sure I'd rage if I got 80% through the game and then lost pacifist mode. In pacifist mode you don't even fight the bosses - however you manage that by finding specific rose points before reaching a boss which will de-spawn it. If you get to the boss without finding it, you'll either have to get a game over or lose pacifist mode. When I think about it, this is likely what happened to me in my run. Wasn't a boss, but pretty sure there was no way to get past it without killing or de-spawning it. Oh well.
Anyway, fun games. If they put out a new Alwa game I'll probably pick that up as well.
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They're both in my Steam "Give These A(nother) Shot" custom Collection thing, though, so it's more likely than not that I'll give them another attempt someday.
(I really need to get back into writing more "review" type posts like this myself, rather than just posting rage/mockery/cynicism-fueled rants about politics and/or the modern game industry all the time... I've got several I could and probably should write about, but just haven't felt motivated enough to bother... :/)