Undying Lantern Reviews

Felt like i was walking around a tech demo. Not for me.

It's complicated. This isn't a bad game, but is very rough. The exploration is interesting, with nice enviroments and filled with lore, and the puzzles are very throughful. The problems come with the movement, collisions and combat... they are a bit janky. Sometimes attacks don't hit, sometimes bosses hit you with no explanation and sometimes you fall through the floor, nothing game-braking but a bit annoying. I really like the mechanic of finding the weaknesses of the bosses, even so you can still fight them souls-like style but, with the jankyness is just too hard. I played the game in normal but halfway through I had to start over on story mode to finish it. Some improvements/not so good things: -it would be nice for the interactable objects to be highlighted like the lore ones (there's some fireflies things that do so but are easy to miss). -story mode is nice (maybe making the player invincible is too much), but just an "easy" mode would be better, one where the player can take more hits and there aren't that many projectiles or attacks. -talking about projectiles, some bosses shoot too many of them, filling the screen of noise you can't even see where you are, especialy the later ones. I'm impressed that this was made by a single developer, it's easy to see the dedication and creativity poured to this game. All the luck with future projects!