Unity - The Buried Pillars [v0.6] [T.F.A.N.C.S]

[v0.6]
Basically, the game itself is fairly tight and feels good to play. But it's unfairly difficult. Focus on the unfair part.
Specifically the bosses. The notorious rat boss took me 30+ tries and only about 20% of the time it was my fault I died, the rest were undodgable rng attacks
There's a stun mechanic straight out of jump-king that exists to make the game worse, You will *always* get chained meaning you always die in 2, maybe 3 attacks when you should survive 5 which the game seems balanced around
In the new boss I died a dozen times to stunlocking, decided I wasn't having fun anymore, and dropped the game. That's pretty damming so I feel justified in giving it a 2.5 score. It is mechanically solid and has good art and audio design but none of those matter if you intentionally make it infuriating. I just wasn't having fun man.
Cautious 3 score in the hopes they add a difficulty select, or remove the anti-fun mechanic in the full release

i did say what nakara will be the only game i'll review but man i cant stop the urge for this one

i just really like the dev, his cute artstyle and games. specifically difficulty of this game, this is what i needed from porn game industry. YES punish me all the way for missing those damn blocks.
also i don't have any delays or problems with block, it was always clean for me, dunno what people down here talkin' about. but i agree what this game needs difficulty sliders, otherwise it wont get the love it deserves

I'd like to start by saying that I expect good things of this game, judging off the dev's previous work, potentially a 5 star.

As of build 0.6 the game's done incredible artwork, I'd wager to say the scenes in this game are already better than the last, and the backgrounds are nice to look at. Though, I am a simple man who see booba and have neuron activation so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Now when it comes to the second most important thing for a game of this genre (porn obviously), gameplay, the most concering thing is how overly punishing it is. Now as someone who's played games like DMC III it's nothing too crazy, but the fact that I had an easier time beating the first boss of DMC III than ANY other boss in this game speaks volumes. Now I don't think the difficulty is something that needs to be removed, what needs to be added however is difficulty sliders, this could be a normal mode for instance.

And as for what I'd like to see out of this game, other than the difficulty sliders of course, is the ability to do SOMETHING to the knocked enemies, I mean you could kinda do that in the last game and this is kinda like the last game but platformer? If that makes sense? Nothing hurts my fried dopamine receptors more than seeing busty ladies laid out on the floor and having to walk by them.

TL;DR: Add difficulty sliders, game's got potential, really nice art, and let me do something to the knocked enemies.

Sigh... a platformer game where enemies are fast and you die in 4 hits... even as a fan of platformer games, I just can't have fun here at all.

Oh and, if you don't believe me, well, to play normally first you must re-map the controls. There's 2 buttons for casting magic spells but, they don't actually do anything right now.

0.5 Build
For a game that relies heavily on parrying as its entire gameplay loop, I personally find its parry system completely inconsistent. First of all the window to parry is deceptively small because the actual parry animation has you hold your sword out like you've got a good full second of parry window, but that's not the case. It's pretty much instant and enemy attacks are also just as instantly fast. That said there are times when the parry will interrupt my attack and come out the moment I press it and need it. Other times it'll queue up the parry and make my attack finish first, and by then the enemy attack has already gone out and hits me, and then my parry comes out anyway immediately afterwards because it was still queued up. Beyond that the parry is both required and borderline useless, it is literally there to break up the fighting and that's it. You don't get a stun for parrying the enemy, your only reward is that you negated damage on yourself and now have to be ready to do it again, and again, and again. It isn't particularly difficult since most enemies are set up in a way that you can fight them within a vacuum but it's just drawn out and boring after a while, especially when you don't get anything for fighting. You get what you see and what you see is what you plan around fighting and your reward is just special meter stuff.

I get that it's super early on into development but if you're gonna put such a heavy emphasis on the parry mechanic you gotta give the players something, man. It should stun enemies for a moment, give you a damage boost on your next hit, anything to reward actually doing it right. As it is the parry is just there as a skill issue check and nothing more. You either learn to parry or you will not play this game, and honestly i fucking hate that for a porn game of all things.

It's still super early but it's hard to say if it'll get better or worse. With the porn being tied to game over I personally lean towards worse. Nothing is quite as annoying as having to redo a section because you wanted to see what the new enemy does and sacrifice your progress along the way over and over again.

seems fun honestly looks good so far i hope you'l do a controll layout soon so i don't have to schrub my keyboard to find the controlls but yeah looks good. also i like the boob goblins they are cute and sexy