Arkan: The dog adventurer Reviews

Easy to play, hard to master. Pros: * nice pixel art graphics * cute dog * you can teleport!!! * provides you a challenge Cons: * almost impossible to exit level editor. really.

[h1]An interesting and complex mixture of two simple genres.[/h1] Pros: 1. Pleasant graphics, animations and music. 2. Interesting gameplay. 3. Challenging difficulty. 4. Level editor. Cons: 1. No Workshop for users-created levels. Wishes: 1. Ultra-easy mode. In which, for example, the strength of blocks and enemies will be significantly reduced. 2. Custom levels Workshop.

My girlfriend and I played this game for a little less than an hour. We were attracted to the beautiful pixel graphics and animation, the cute dog, and the jumpy gameplay. It plays like a platformer bullet-hell brick breaker game, which is a pretty unique idea. It controls well and the trailer represents all this very well. Sadly for us, the game was just way too difficult. We felt like we had little control of the ball and defeating enemies just wasn't fun. It never felt like we were being rewarded enough for completing incredibly difficult levels and even when we made it though a level by the skin of our teeth, it felt like it was just rng. Not to mention we often did it without breaking the stars required to unlock further levels. We managed about 15 levels before we had to quit, and we couldn't really tell any difference between the easy and hard difficulty options. Obviously a lot of care and time went into making this beautiful looking game, but the core gameplay was just too difficult and not satisfying enough to make us want to push ourselves to continue. If there was a progression system to make our character stronger, a way to have multiple balls in play, or even if the levels just used blocks that didn't need to be hit 4 or 5 times before they break it would be alleviate a lot of that stress, but in this state it was just too hard.