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I was attracted to this game because the character reminded me of chakan the forever man on megadrive. It turns out the sprite in the promo video was actually ripped from chakan (it has been replaced since). There are possibly more graphics borrowed from other places.
The game didn't...
The Masked Mage bills itself as "a slow-paced, peaceful metroidvania game," but the only way a player could actually interpret this would be as an aimless, meandering, empty platformer with vaguely metroidvania-like progression.
This game consistently commits the cardinal sin of having the player walk extremely lengthy, empty areas, doing nothing but...
Looks great fore a retro vibe, but it was quite boring to be honest. Lots of running around with no platforming, monsters or anything to make it interesting. And you'd run one way for awhile, find you cant progress and run back (which is normal for metroidvania) but with the lack of content/stimuli ...doubley boring.
This game's main features if soft lock!
Soft lock by using up your single use heal pickups while the enemies endlessly respawn. Using the heal button does not fill up X amount of health, instead you'd better hope your fairy friend is flittering close enough to you to catch some of the pixie dust. Sometimes it fills one tick, sometimes it fills five.
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VERY bare bones type of game. Your character is slow and has exactly one "bonk" move at the start at least and most of the time you'll wind up getting hit when you try to hit an enemy. Thankfully the enemies die in one hit so far anyways though. Healing is also jank because it relies on picking up pixie dust and having your little fairy friend sprinkle...
