Heaven Dust Reviews

I enjoyed it! A somewhat short RE love letter (took me a bit more than 4 hours). Where this game shines is the level design. Running around finding new items and codes so you can progress, backtracking to previous areas to fetch items or unlock previously locked doors, saving your ammo and buying appropriate upgrades, all of that was very fun throughout and kept me engaged! The criticism I've seen is valid - some aspects are unpolished and feel like just passable, like sound (sometimes felt like it came out of the wrong L/R side), ambient music (some badly looped BGMs broke immersion) and atmosphere (you just start locked in there wanting to escape with no setup or explanation, although it is explained later. Plus it's chibi-style which is OK). Also, the puzzles were hit or miss. I had to google the solution to some of them, and often I'd been very close but little details put me off of the solution (ex. space for 4 digits when the code is 3 digits), but then I just moved on and continued playing. The "combat" gameplay is not particularly engaging, even with the final boss - it's mostly stay away and auto-aim and fire, as long as you have enough ammo - but this does not feel like it is particularly the point of the game. As somebody else mentioned, the translation felt off often, which is too bad because I could perceive good writing behind it. Going to play Heaven Dust 2 now, which people seemed to say was better. I did like this one so I think I'll have fun.