The Land of the Magnates Steam Charts & Stats

I played this game in its entirety, but I wouldn't play it again. This is mostly due to how frustrating it can be. Yeah, this is one of those platforming games that make you want to smash your controller against the wall. You attack enemies with music notes by pressing a precise sequence of controller buttons. I often found this mechanic unresponsive with what seems like a slight delay, which means you will often have to keep trying over and over again to get these attacks right. This is nothing though compared to when you are forced to make perfectly timed speed runs over spikes, numerous lengthy wall runs, and freeze water at the top of pipes with split second timing in the later levels. These sections are a big reason why I stopped enjoying the game. Another major issue is how LONG the levels seemed to drag on doing the same thing over and over again. There are only six chapters in this game. However, each area that you are in seems to go on forever and ever with seemingly no end in sight performing the same jumps and wall runs and battling the same enemies over and over again. There is also a highly annoying and frustrating boss section where a fire boss keeps killing you over and over again. This boss battle is divided into three phases and the game does not save in between phases, meaning you will have to start the entire battle over when you die. Voice acting in this game is atrociously bad and there are also some fairly harsh frame rate drops when entering new areas or when an event is triggered that cannot be fixed by changing the graphic options. There is also no inventory to manage nor any way to improve your character. You just keep making the same jumps, wall runs, and battling the same enemies until the game ends. The developer clearly designed this game to get more challenging as it goes on, but this only made for a more frustrating than enjoyable experience in my opinion. The way the levels drag on though doing the same thing over and over again is what really ruined it for me. Overall, this game is worth the price. However, I cannot recommend it as something to be played more than once.