Alwa's Legacy Reviews

Surprisingly much fun and content for a small price highly recommended

After playing Alwa's awakening on epic I immediately bought Alwa's legacy. I already loved awakening but legacy improved almost everything and made me love the games even more. It's surprisingly challenging but it never felt unfair. The exploration was rewarding and there are so many things to find. I liked the story and the unique abilities and how they tied into each other. The artstyle was good and I just had fun playing this. It had some puzzles that made me scratch my head to figure out what I needed to do, but when I did know it still was challenging enough to actually do it. There's one thing you can accidentally do but the game doesn't punish you for it, you can undo it and it doesn't affect your achievements. There are people who complain about it but I really liked the way this was implemented and it did made me think about dead in video games. The movement took me a few minutes to getting used to, just like in awakening. Zoe controls a bit heavy but once I got used to it it was no big deal. I'm not the biggest fan of the music but it's not bad, just repetitive. And last but not least I really didn't like the map. While I liked that it was big you couldn't zoom in, and just like awakening when you wanted to scroll to an area you needed to pass the other areas in seemingly random order. The same goes for fast travel and since you can fast travel anywhere this felt like a bit of a unnecessary timewaster at times. Still a great game and I would definitely recommend it, I had a blast with it.

This one just keeps getting worse and worse. Around every turn is a dead end in this game. It's so bad it feels like you're getting trolled when you play it. Locked door dead end. Find a key? Open the door to a dead end. Equip the right skills to make it to a new area? Now you need the other skills equipped to continue. See a barred off path that you can access if you go back and throw a switch? Go back. Throw switch. Come back and move one map panel ahead. Dead end. It's not so bad for the first few hours of play....but mid game it just becomes a nightmare. And the worst thing is that you still walk into the room to discover it's just a dead end. So the map is getting completed and it leaves you with no idea where to go. Just backtrack all over the map while returning to the hub to change your equipped skills to have the right skills equipped briefly to discover new dead ends. I have seen some negative reviews for Castlevania games with complaints about backtracking. If you didn't like a Castlevania because of the backtracking, then playing this will give you a full on nervous breakdown. And at least in other games you can have rewards for exploration like exp, item drops, collectables etc.....In this there is no point to fight an enemy. Everything is just an obstacle while you are trying to figure out where to go. Long story short - Not for me at all. 2/10

I must say that Alwa's legacy is the game that left the biggest impression on all the games I've played on Steam. When I look back at the games that I have played and I see this game I always think to myself "What a great game" and I remember having the same feeling about the greatest games in my collections when I was a console gamer and didn't had to pay rent or go to work... good times. Long story short: This game got my seal of approval because it's awesome.