ICEY Reviews

Bardzo przyjemny slasher/mettroidvania na jeden wieczór.

Game nearly broke my mind beyond repair, but I still quite enjoyed the ride.

Very brave to make a game that leans so hard on meta-narrative when the core gameplay is so mushy. In this case, it does not work.

Enemies stun lock you, save points are rare, the story writing and narration are cringe, and the control scheme is ass, like who tf thought B to accept and A to go back was a good idea

Overall combat sucks. Controls are unresponsive, it's easy to get stunlocked to death, dodge has almost zero i-frames, grab attacks with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hitboxes, attacks with zero windup. The whole combo system can be put to trash, because you will mostly just spam single attack with that amount of enemies the game throws at you.

Amazing game, I learned to always move in opposite direction from what someone suggests. I wish there was a harder difficulty than hard, since I thought it was an intended difficulty. If you plan on playing this game, I HIGHLY recommend the japanese voice, it's a lot more expressive than english dub.

It's been a while since I played this so I don't really remember details, but I do know that I found it to be pretty fun even though this isn't really my kind of game. What really drew me in was the story, the meta narrative of one person's game development journey, expressed through constant fourth wall breaks that I found amusing rather than cringe. It's not just an obnoxious, endless barrage of stupid jokes. Definitely don't play it with the English language narrator though, I played with the Japanese one and they were amazing. I love the soundtrack as well, I'm grateful to the developer for making that free DLC. The other free DLC, UCEY's Awakening, seems to be an endless battle mode. I had a problem with one specific boss' attack being entirely unavoidable, but besides that my only complaint would be that the game is really short for the current price of $14 Canadian. I spent about three hours on my first playthrough then the rest of my time was achievement hunting with a guide and a little bit of playing for fun. On sale at 40% off or more I think it's a great deal, and highly recommend it.

Definitely worth more than 5x the price this game was a fantastic fourth wall breaking experience and a great joy to play. 9.5/10 sometimes its finicky to enter rooms or to activate the upgrade bot that's literally my only problem everything else is peak!

Interesting action game. The gameplay is nice with the combo abilities which can be upgraded with currency found in the world and through fighting enemies. The story on the other hand is where things go off the rails (in a weird way). Without spoiling this game's narrative, the story is like the Stanley Parable but with very cryptic messaging which I won't go into to prevent spoilers. I can recommend the game for its gameplay but the narrative seemed all over the place for me/I didn't understand it too well (I took the route of playing the game for achievements in the first run so I don't know if that messed up the tempo of the game's story and made it more fragmented/confusing). Overall I'd give it a try on a good sale since it is pretty short of a game as well (4 hours to 100% complete).

I recently played it and i gotta say its a short but very nice time.