Legends of Dionysos Reviews

Great game, improved a lot since I first played the demo!

Those damn Ice Golems! Controllers advised. It's simply for slaying some foes the oldschool way.

Admittedly I didn't play for long. If the combat looked like slop/jank to you then playing this will likely validate your assumption, as it did mine.

Game was fun for a little while. However all this falls apart when you have to fight the dragons. Hands down the worst experience I've had in a video game. Grind gear and levels all you want but it still is awful. Can not recommend this game.

Pretty amazing game! The nice hack-n-slay concept and straightforward gameplay got me into a flow right away. The sound & music are also nice, and the overall atmosphere is quite unique and just well-done. Overall, this game has all it needs... recommended, and please make more of this stuff!

Good game, controls take a little to get used to, and feels slow at the beginning, but gets better with gear when you focus on agility.

I can't bring myself to recommend Legends of Dionysos to anyone, it's too bland. I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking, just some sidescroller slop I could enjoy for a few hours and I won't even get that. I REALLY enjoy this genre so it's a shame. If this is something you're looking for I'd redirect you to Withering Rooms which is arguably the best I've played. The Gamplay here requires you being a mix of everything, swapping between Weapons to fight. Fairly similar to Guild Wars 2 where Weapons have specific Skills for each one. So if you're an 'Archer' and an Enemy gets on top of you, you can use the Bow to slide away, switch to Staff to blink and gain more distance, then to Shield to heal, then back to the Bow. What are the Issues? - Traveling is a Chore and every map/arena is too big. Squeeze everything down a little. When Waves spawn in Arenas you practically need to go kick an enemy in the head to come towards you. Enemies need to just start moving towards the Player as soon as the Wave spawns. The Portal Home should also have a 'Return Portal' similar to many ARPGs like Diablo. - Unable to hover over anything. You can't read any Skill Descriptions or Stats. My assumption is that STAM/STR/DEX/INT directly scales into Shield/Sword/Bow/Staff, which if true it's incredibly lazy. - Leveling up (the main aspect of the game) only nets you increased stats. Armor directly scales with level so anytime you level up your armor is immediately outdated. - No Talent Tree whatsoever, so the only 'spec' in the game is trying to focus a specific armor type which have affixes like "of the Knight/Mage" to give TINY extra bonuses to STR/INT. - Animations and Movement are janky. What I'd WANT from a game like this is: - Weapon/Armor Sets at specific Levels (7, 13, 19, 25, etc) that give bonuses (or Skill boosts). Look at how MMO's or other RPGs handle this system, it's not new Armor at every level. - A Talent Tree (gives something for Leveling up). This can help make the 'build' that Players want to use. - More Skills, and the ability to form a personalized Build. There should be Weapon-specific, and NON-specific Skills.

Legends of Dionysos. Gives me major Fate vibes. (Pre-installed Windows game from back in the day.) Pros: Beautiful music. Character creation. Side scrolling is a nice feature, the background art is aesthetically pleasing. Cons: Recommends playing with a controller for the best experience on PC... Some of the quest text has missing or poor punctuation. Moderate motion sickness when moving. Not very fluid movements between the character, foreground, and background. Overall it's a nostalgic side-scrolling action RPG where reaction time certainly matters. It has some amazing potential, I just feel that it needs some fine tuning. Will update my review when I've played the game more.