Empress of Gold Reviews

"Empress of Gold" is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere (although this one is 3D rendered, it's just got 2D gameplay). You're supposed to control a ninja and go fight against a bunch of enemies, but this is so badly made it comes across as a high school coding project (and the student failed the course and was held back a year as a result of this garbage). There's an element of asset flipping here, too... it looks like the developer made their own ninja assets (because they look comedically terrible, low poly blobs), coupled with a bunch of immaculate background assets like high res, detailed medieval houses and so on. Yeah... I don't believe the developer when they're representing (by omission of any game credits) that they created all these assets themselves. They used someone else's assets and they're trying to pass them off as their own. That's plagiarism. It's not okay. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this game was never accepted on the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. "Empress of Gold" has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for finding a hidden thing in the first level, trivial to achieve, but less than 8 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. The game contains stock/store assets and other packages, but the "developer" here hasn't credited the people who actually did the work for the game. While this isn't necessarily against the license for the use of those assets, claiming the work of others as your own is unethical. "Empress of Gold" is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

I like the Japanese concept of Ninja doing something else than just spying and doing mercenaries work. Unlike from history in the game the Ninja is doing the "honorable" way of taking revenge from the one who was killing fellow Shinobis' near by and getting help from the Empress of Gold. The background is easy on eyes reminds me of old silk screen paintings which the music blends in smoothly. The Hero (Ninja) does the legendary light on his feet movement which folklore and legend tells how they move. The use of the throwing stars shuriken and katana...so into the game kill em bad guys and even become the Empress herself- am not done but I like...so far