Anyone on /v/ play this game?
Thoughts?
If you like games like IWBTG then you'll like this. It's nowhere near as bullshit but the platforming is still really precise and difficult to execute.
I'm not masochistic enough to enjoy it and its bullshit.
It's insanely difficult. I wouldn't call it unfair, but it's definitely up there.
Run-of-the-mill hipster indy faux-retro platformer trash with sex appeal
>>320334685
Oh yeah, day one purchase.
Utter regret.
See, the game wasn't fully optimized or some shit so it often had lag spikes. This is one of those super hard platforming games that demands perfection from the player, so those lag spikes would fuck you over hard.
I heard it got fixed a while ago but it really sapped all of my motivation. I should pick it up again though, the characters are pretty sexy. That being said, I recall not being able to get past the first boss. I don't even see how it's possible since some attacks don't seem to be dodgeable. The closest I got to winning was due to RNG luck since he only used attacks I could deal with.
If you're MLG pro then try the game. For everyone else I recommend not even trying.
>>320334685
it's games like this that have put me on my quest to just make games that are fun to play.
everything being a white-knuckle "roguelike" is fucking tiresome.
>>320335197
>>320335347
i'm a huge fan of platformers so i'll give it a try.
but didn't know it was that hard. would you say it's a full step up from something like dustforce?
>>320334685
I'm not good or dedicated enough to beat it, but I enjoy the challenge and gameplay a lot.
I thought the characters looked hot, and I mistook it for a metroid style clone.
Unfortunately it's a super meat boy clone, and it's really just about trial and error and seems to expect you to memorize more than hone your reaction times.
>>320335557
No.
>>320335531
All attacks are dodgeable, it's just figuring out the trick to each
Honestly I got about half way through the game before I stopped
The platforming was fine and secrets were nice
But the bosses have too much hp
Usually with the masochistic platformers you've got bosses that have are insanely dangerous but they don't take fucking forever
Here you've got dudes where you can do a few hits after one of their attacks and you'll take off maybe 5-10% of the boss's hp
And each attack can take 5-15s+ and easily murder you
So a full boss fight can take some time just due to all the time spent dodging through the moves to get to the hitting the boss
It just gets kind of tedious
>>320335557
Dustforce is pretty different from WoV since all of your movement options are available to you at the get go and you can do really creative and fast platforming. In this game you have to gradually unlock shit and it never really gets as fast as even the intermediate levels of Dustforce, you just have to be really precise with your movement. if you're okay with a lot of trial and error it's okay but I wouldn't call it a great platformer. Watch a youtube video or something to get a feel for the design.
i think theres a free demo on steam. i personally didnt like it.
>>320335968
I felt like the first boss had too much HP for a first boss and I was hoping the other bosses wouldn't be the same. It's a pity they're so tanky, it's kinda artificial difficulty then ain't it?
Looking at this thread... is there really anything redeeming about this game apart from "The MC is hot"?
I liked it. It's a lot better than the dongs.exe school of IWTBTG killing you for dumb stuff. Having there be achievements for not gotting hit on each of the bosses made me actuallly put in effort to learn their patterns in places where ar first i was like "whats with this undodgable bullshit."
The only downsides are the dumb vertical scroll section early on due to the main character's weirdly shaped hitbox and the section right after where the path to take isn't clear.
I can't git gud enough to enjoy it, I had fun for about the first half but it just gets too hard for me later on.
>>320336342
It's a better masacore platformer out there than 90% of what you can find. Also Rubi is hotter than the MC.
>ctrl+f "nose"
>zero results
Impressed
how does she kiss without a nose?
I like Eishiban's art of it
its prety gud
though im not gud enough to get very far in it
but i do likes it
>>320336831
dongs.exe isn't really trying to be a masacore platformer, though. It's just a fun joke game.
hope it goes on sale soon. im too used to getting paltformers for so cheap
cute bump
>>320334685
It's shit. It's a badly designed game where everything is hard for the sake of being hard rather than for the sake of being a good challenge, and the shitty controls leave you battling with them constantly.
>>320335197
No, fuck off. IWBTG is a great game, because it's all about surprise. Every single room does something new to throw you off. IWBTG isn't just "oh check out how hard our game is you have to be a pro gamer to clear this shit", it's just a game that wants to surprise you, and it's enjoyable because of that.
>>320335531
I beat the first boss, though it was a massive pain not because of the boss itself, but because you find your second weapon directly beforehand, and instead of using an extra button to bring up the weapon select menu, they made it so holding down the attack button would do that. At the time the game had an issue where sometimes the input wouldn't come off when you release the button. This wasn't a problem before but after getting the second weapon you randomly get stuck with the weapon select menu popping up, and since it's a radial menu it fucks you over. The second weapon is also complete shit.
After finally beating the boss despite this bullshit the next stage is an auto-scroller that is pure trial and error. It's a maze of missiles rising along the screen with a set path you have to take through them, but if you're not in the right spot by the time it appears you move too slowly to make it before it seals off, so you're constantly dying while figuring out and memorising the stage layout because there's no other way to get through. At that point I just said fuck it and didn't bother going any further with it because I knew it'd only get worse.
>>320340828
Wait, so surprises designed to fuck with you the first time and then it's no longer a surprise is more interesting than having a clear challenge you have to puzzle through?
And while I was hating on Vi's weird hitbox, the controls are pretty exact.
Oh, and the game really is full of pixel perfect bullshit. Pic related, for example. To get to the chest you have to jump up from the platform on the left and land in the pictured space. If you touch the enemy at all it's an instant death and you have to try again from the checkpoint several screens away, and it's not helped by the ambiguous hitbox. I was certain that I was doing it wrong because this was just too goddamn stupid, but nope.
>>320335968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop
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>>320334685
I prefer the angel ryona game that isn't ashamed to admit it's smut/porn.
In case anyone wants source, it's called DepraviA
>>320341359
IWBTG's screens all each very short, so you move on from them to something new quite quickly. WoV rarely has areas that feel like puzzles; the boss patterns are the closest it comes to that. Most of WoV is just brute forcing your way through an obvious solution until you get your pixels perfect.
Contrary to >>320335968 I thought the stages sucked dick and the boss fights were the highlight, outside of the fucked up weapon switch system.
>And while I was hating on Vi's weird hitbox, the controls are pretty exact.
I didn't say they're imprecise, I just said they're shitty. The single biggest issue I have with them is that you can only attack in the same direction that you're moving in, and there are a shitload of enemies that attack by rushing towards you and dealing contact damage.
>>320341925
That reminds me, WoV really does feel like it's a softcore ryona game at times. The wide variety of deaths is one thing but they tend to feel just a bit too gratuitous.
>>320341925
Yeah, I like that one too. Honestly Wings of Vi could've done a little better with it's death animations. Like, not even full gore porn, but better than just-- disappearing in a dumb blood spray.
>>320341957
>only attack in the same direction you're moving
Okay, you clearly didn't play the game.
>a retro inspired indie platformer made to be overly difficult like literally none of the games it was inspired by
I'll pass.
>>320342165
Unless you get a new weapon eventually that does allow you to attack in a different direction to where you're moving, you're full of shit.
There's a free demo, go try it.
I found it hard to the point of being not enjoyable. Games like Super Meat Boy will at least ease you into the mechanics, and save the bullshit-tier platforming for post-game.
>>320341925
How's the gameplay?
After playing Kurovadis I became spoiled. Quality porn with perfectly good gameplay.
>>320334685
It's garbage.
If you want to play a 10/10 platformer in every sense of the word, then play Dustforce. It is a masterpiece.
>>320342318
You can attack in all eight directions with the basic staff. Even before you get any of the upgrades or find any of the Seven Deadly Sins weapons.
>>320342515
>You can attack in all eight directions with the basic staff
I didn't say you couldn't.
>>320342462
Kurovaldis was too much bullshit platforming with too little porn.
I guess that does sound like Wings of Vi, but at least WoV tells you that's the type of game it is.
>>320342552
>allow you to attack in a different direction to where you're moving
Is english not your primary language, because this is exactly what was said.
>>320342697
>>allow you to attack in a different direction to where you're moving
But it doesn't, you fucking idiot. You use the left stick to move. You also use the left stick to aim your attacks. As such, you cannot attack in any direction without moving in that direction at the same time.
This is not a difficult thing to understand.
>>320342697
Clearly it's not yours.
>>320342825
>Moving forward
>Can attack up, forward up, forward, down forward.
It's fun.
>>320343439
>>320343439
Shame that doesn't apply to any of the flying sections.
>>320343582
This fight in particular was great. I had a lot of fun learning the perfect pattern on this one.
>>320343439
>>Moving forward
>>Can attack up
You already fucked up. You can't attack straight down or up because then you're no longer pushing forward.
>playing a game from the same guy who made the memeiest game of all time
>>320343672
What sections are you having trouble hitting enemies with? Like, everything is set up to be right on your path.
ill stick with super meat boy even though i know /v/ hates it
The top Steam reviewer has 300 hours played.. holy fuck
never seen that for platformer
>>320343923
"Super Meat Boy would be more fun if it starred a cute grill." - /v/
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/m6Fkibc.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>320342462
It's pretty fun. Some of the parts are a bit bullshit and the quality is merely okay, but it's got some replayability at least and the deaths are all pretty nice (even the gorey ones aren't too extreme).
The replayability comes from this dark angel transformation you can do. Depending on your rank in the levels and how many times you use the dark angel shit to powerboost through changes the final levels and endings.And this halfway point where if you've been bad you have to get a needle injection minigame to the eye.
Waiting for the Eshiban posters...
why does this game have barely any lewds
>>320345324
it's not particularly popular. only 700 steam reviews.
Instead of good design that's really hard, we went for bad design that's just really hard. Feel free to call everyone who "doesn't get it" a casual. Now eat up your slop of waifus and give me fucking money.
>>320344338
It's not particularly hard, though. Like I remember having to do a bunch of stuff to drop rank to get the final CGs, but other than that it was over pretty quickly.
best plaformer of the past few years
dare i say better than shovel knight?
>>320348015
The Swapper is better
>>320348015
Castle in the Darkness is better.
>>320348341
is that an actual game? don't get me excited anon.
>>320348341
The Swapper is fucking shit. And it's also not a platformer.
>Shoulder and tit freckles
>Almost never exists IRL
>>320351297
why is it shit? curious. It has a perfect score on steam
>>320351493
You get it alot in the South, or Ireland.
>Not a porn game
INTO THE FUCKING TRASH
>>320351748
>97%
>Perfect score
I guess I should be fair, the puzzles are actually pretty decent. But the story is garbage and gets far more praise than it deserves.
What is shit about the gameplay is that it's an open environment which serves no real purpose, you just do a shitload of walking back and forth because of it. The game's secrets are also largely hidden behind completely invisible gaps in walls, so the only way to find them without a guide is to push yourself against and try to shoot through every part of every wall in the game.
>>320351978
ah ok, well i like puzzlers almost as much as platformers so ill prob give it a try if i can snag it cheap
