Moonlight Pulse Steam-Diagramme & Statistiken

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A nice and small metroid game that I really enjoyed playing. The controls feel very fluid, and the mechanics are original and integrated well with the controls. You play as one of up to four characters and can change between characters at any time. All four characters have different movement skills and attack abilities/restrictions. For example, You can combine a updraft with a glide and a grapple to a ledge later in the game by switching between characters midair. Getting rescued by a passive team member if your active one would have died is also a really nice mechanic. The little comments while this happens also add to the immersion. The visuals feel appealing, and there is hardly any grinding. Even the 100% achievement can be reached with little effort. Some enemies are tricky, and it can be hard to see where you have to go next. However, I was able to reach 100% on my first playthrough after around 4h playtime. Later on, there is an item that can also reveal undiscovered items. The quicktravel here is realized through bloodstreams that have specific entries and can be blocked by parasites. The player has to navigate through the map to remove the parasites to reach further areas. This is a very immersive and intuitive approach, in my opinion. The story itself is original and appealing, but pretty simple. You play as part of a defense force to defend a world-sized turtle from invading parasites, navigating through blood streams and its different organs. Multiple big, evil boss parasites pop up and need to be defeated to save the turtle. At one point one character becomes unavailable, which forces you to take different routes with other movement skills, which is also a nice touch. There are some plot holes, like the low number of inhabitants of different species. Apparently, there are children occasionally, but we only see one parent, and most species only have one NPC present. With a constant barrage of aggressive dog-sized parasites, I would have expected loss and repopulation to be more important. Perhaps, if there had been an inaccessible village or some closed doors in the research facilities, it would feel more immersive. ^^ Another major immersion break is the speed race in the lung. Your task is to patch up wounds as fast as possible to avoid infection. "You think you can do it even faster? Let me rip off all bandages and reopen the wounds, so you can get a better time!". I thought we wanted to save the turtle at all costs. ^^' The character ability growth also feels pretty awful at a number of times. In the best cases, you find an item that plops into a place at your weapon, and the weapon is improved. Like a bit of bone makes a powerarmor glide and expulse fire. Or someone explains to you that you should hold the water magic longer, and you just do it. The worst cases were, in my opinion, things like "you put in so much effort, so I thought I could also give it a try," and then you can wall-jump. Or the sheep gliding with a cape especially made for gliding, which she had the whole time but could only use that after almost falling to death. Another interesting aspect is that characters can permanently die in the boss fight, leading to different endings. The game also features attack/defense modifiers to make a playthrough easier or harder. In total, it was a fun game with nice controls, interesting concepts, an entertaining story with nice details, and maybe a few logical gaps.