I enjoyed playing through the game. Cleared all the levels, side quests, and everything at 100%. Got all the achievements possible. I enjoyed it. Game play took about 37 hours in total over a few weeks. One the one hand, I enjoyed the game, but I don’t know that I would replay it right away, so I’m not sure if the value was worth the price. I also thought the villagers should have changed their script a little once the villain was defeated, or at least once the magicians were all freed. Like “Thank you for freeing us from the evil that threatened our island…” a little confetti or something.

Finally a decent metriodvania on the App Store. Second only to castlevainia SotN (yes I know blasphemous is on the App Store. Afterimage is great but from reading reviews seems it may blow up my phone) Combat is simple but smooth feeling.Update: I am close to the end. I’m trying to complete all side quests before entering the keep. But now I can’t find the ghost! I thought I saved a screenshot to remember his location but apparently not. Help please. Also don’t listen to the negative reviews about the challenging boss fights. I literally have died I think 3 times. And it was my own fault for not backtracking to a save. Each zone has gotten better and better

Love this little game! Plenty of hours of enjoyment and opportunities to practice beating the various bosses. Only thing is I wish I could find some guidance on what the question marks represent in the info panels for the individual maps. The areas say 100% explored, yet it looks like that’s not quite true because in addition to lines like “Chests 2/2” there are “??? ???” lines as well. I’ve beaten the final boss and got the final credits screen that says my journey’s over, but obviously I’m missing something. Will just have to go back through and see if I didn’t pick something up.

Played with a Backbone controller, felt almost like playing a classic console game.Really enjoyed ‘Sword of Xolan’ back when that first came out so bought this game without hesitation and wasn’t disappointed at all.I have recommended both to friends to check out.Navigating the menus, selecting and confirming things with buttons was sometimes confusing, sometimes A was required and sometimes X and sometimes Y. I got used to it but at times it took some time to sort out which button to push in each situation. Otherwise the controls felt really good.There are some grammatical errors here and there, but I felt they had minimal impact on my enjoyment of the gameplay.There are so many spells and abilities to find and upgrade, which makes me really hope to see an expansion pack or more challenges that make specific use of them in the future.Can’t wait for the sequel.