Cantirium: God Slayer Reviews

I really wanted this to be good, because I love me a good catgirl game and I love Metroidvanias. It started out kinda janky, but I could forgive that. The Spanish dialogue (there are no options to manually set the language) was obviously machine translated (and not particularly well done even at that), but the worldbuilding was decent enough to keep me vaguely interested. The levels, which I wouldn't be surprised if they were partially machine generated due to the weird geometries full of dead ends, had enough little touches to keep me moving around instead of going directly to the next exit (something which wasn't always obvious apart from a very vague direction from the overview map). I could forgive the stiff combat with a pathetic range melee attack against enemy sponges and more than one plainly unfair enemy because I guessed eventually things would improve with powerups. There was a store where I bought one powerup but I didn't have enough coins to continue (there's a minor currency penalty for dying which might have kept me just short of buying everything), and as the game was strictly linear so far I couldn't farm for more... but I pushed on. Then I fought the second boss, beat him, and there was no way to advance. I reloaded the save and tried again to the same results, even being careful to not die in case that might have influenced that. Then I tried the same another day in case I simply had some outside factor keeping the game from running well. Then I posted the glitch report on the forum and was hit by deafening silence. Now I write this review to warn others from wasting their money, even if it's only a small amount with the admittedly generous sales. Could this be patched into being good or at least decent? Sure. If that happens I'll gladly update my review.

Not really a metroidvania, let me say that already. First saying I really wish i could recommend this, but the flaws of the game, the clear lack of playtesting, the developer's nonchalant attitude towards their players their complaints AND the developer reviewing their OWN GAME in the steam reviews makes me give it a not recommended. Now to the game: it looks pretty and the music is really nice! But there is just so many issues. Gameplay wise it's just boring. The bosses are all basically tanking while standing still, the platforming feels clunky because of the character hitbox and the enemies are just so fucking repetitive. It's also too short for the full price. Overall just meh and could've really used some playtesting.

this game looks beautiful and composed on the outside but is actually a horrible mess on the inside, just like me fr!