Beyond the Ice Palace 2 Steam Charts & Stats

The Good: Excellent visuals and satisfying chain lashing action gameplay that make up for a decent side scrolling platformer full of skellingtons, zombies, flying pests, and more, without going far deep into the "Metroidvania" style loop of game, instead it's quite linear based majority of the game with little backtracking save for chests and secret areas that are out of reach. Kraboat is the best boss ever. The Bad: The music is rather unexciting outside of bosses and the final area, seems to be very few tracks in the game. The overall sound effects+audio design leave alot to be desired, especially when it feels like enemies are just straight up missing sound effects and audio cues. Other major gripe I have is the very floaty aerial control and ledge grabbing can be very cumbersome, and things like the dashing to break down barriers is frustrating when it fails to break it the first time. The grapple/hooking mechanic of the chain whip is just kinda cheeks occasionally when you attempt to push/pull things and it just saps your stamina without doing anything, feels like a bug. I really can't stand stamina gauges whenever they pop-up, I get why it's a thing, but I grow tired of how they are in so many action games these days when in the 80's and 90's we didn't need them. The slow-mo counter attack on the dodge is kinda balls, especially in situations where it works against you when many enemies track/auto-correct their attacks. There are some strange visual bugs with undead enemies refusing to die but still maintaining hitboxes, as well as the rare stuck floating in midair glitch when hooking. The game is full of jank, but I appreciate jank. The Ugly: The first Page Boss. What an ugly mf'er. The the Purple Floating Baby mid-boss enemy is hideous as they come, and strangely has no sound effects at all.