HAAK Reviews

One of the best MVs out there.

Good Metroidvania. Not frustrating like others.

Such a great metroidvania game! Cantl believe that's not must metroidvana-must-play video never mention about this! If you like hollow knight, blasphemous (gameplay not art style), you will LOVE it!!!!

Too much boring dialogue with an utterly uninteresting story. I've been trying to play this game twice, both times I have had to quit as all the boring babbling is doing my head in. The actual gameplay is good, when you're platforming around solving puzzles, it's fluid and fun, but the pacing of the game is hindered so much by the poorly written dialogues that you encounter everywhere, and there are an endless amount of them needed to progress. If it hadn't been for them, I reckon I would really like this game.

An exploration heavy metroidvania with excellent level design, good quests and puzzles to discover, hindered slightly by tolerable combat with a near impossible to access endgame. PROS: -Excellent non-linear, branching level design. There are several possible routes. -Lots of upgrades that allow you to move easier or bypass certain environmental hazards, but only some of these abillities are actually needed to beat the game. -There is no difficulty setting, but your death counter is effectively a currency to make things easier (if you want to do so - I did not use this at all). -Some collectible items genuinely provide additional info/puzzles to solve in certain areas (beyond what the map shows). NEUTRALS: -Game is very exploration focused. -There are very few to no guides for this game. -Some poor English translations but it doesn't affect anything. CONS: -The final area is bugged out. In my case, the letter from Yaam never spawned so I am simply not able to access the final area (even though I have 100% completion on all quests/maps/everything else in the game). This was extremely disappointing. -It is very difficult to figure out how to enter the final area of the game (added in the DLC for the best ending). The game does not clearly provide hints so you will almost certainly need to look it up. -Combat is very basic. It is trivial anyway because your heal ability refills after you kill enemies. Against most enemies, you will just swing until they die with little regard for strategy. -Plot is told through verbose written text sequences. Thankfully you can rapidly skip these. -Several missable achievements

This is one of the best games I've ever played. Fantastic art style, music, movement, combat, story, exploration... Everything just works in perfect harmony. Thank you to everyone involved in creating this game for the experience. I loved it.

Fun game, quick hack and slash with metroidvania elments. A bit long, yet fun :)