Um ponto muito positivo aqui é em como tem a base da vasta mitologia hindu. Essa mitologia que eu amo de paixão estudar (apesar de eu ser apenas adepto ao ensinamento budista) e que é pouco representada nos jogos, tem uma releitura muito interessante aqui. É um jogo bem rápido na gameplay, ele na maior parte do tempo não tenta ser difícil e nem tenta facilitar as coisas pra ti. Tem um visual muito daora tbm, mas quando chegamos no level design, ai temos um problema. Tem muitas fases não só mal desenhadas e estranhas, como muito confusas. Não é aquele jogo que vai te por uma parede invisível e dizer q tu tem q voltar (tem isso, mas em fases mais óbvias), ele vai entrar em loop até tu entender q tem uma porta escondida por aí. E tem situações muito mal trabalhadas, como as fases das árvores lá que esqueci o nome, trabalho porco de design. Mas isso não ofusca as boas boss battles e interassantes designs de persoangens.

Pep’s Season of Spooks 2026 - Game 8
Happy Halloween! This is the first of a couple of bite-sized horror game reviews today before I start the final game in the Season of Spooks tomorrow (I've been pretty busy this month and haven't been able to play as many games as I'd have liked to).

David Szymanski, the mastermind behind games such as DUSK and Iron Lung, is just like me: he clearly remembers just how fucking awesome Condemned: Criminal Origins is. Butcher's Creek is a short sharp horror-brawler that attempts to emulate Condemned's scrappy melee slugfests.

You play a guy who, after searching for videotapes containing snuff films, ends up captured buy the gang of sickos making the tapes. From there you whack and slice through the gang, making use of whatever you can grab in the environment, and occasionally the environment itself. Limited weapon durability means that you'll constantly be picking up new weapons, and this leads to an often-frantic gameplay loop as you keep one eye on your durability level.

There's a couple of neat ideas sprinkled into Butcher's Creek. Taking photos of the various gory scenes throughout the levels actually heals you - it's a reminder that the character you're playing is not a good person (but I couldn't help but think of the Spider-Man "Neat" meme whenever I got the camera out). The tapes you collect are also used to save your game - but the more you carry, the bigger your max health gets. So at points you have to decide whether you want to save, or risk not saving to have an edge in combat. It's cool!

While Butcher's Creek isn't outright scary, there's a sense of unease that permeates the entire game, which gets worse the deeper you go. Some of the overarching lore was lost on me, as it seems to be connected to David's other short games Squirrel Stapler and The Pony Factory, but the writing was pretty fun.

A couple of problems: quite a lot of the enemy pathing was wonky - quite a lot of the time they would get lost on their way to me or just stand and stare at me menacingly while I beat them to death. Also, it's not a major complaint but I wish there was a little more variety in the gameplay as it started to lose me a little towards the end - even Condemned had guns!

Butcher's Creek is definitely recommended if you're looking for a scuzzy brawler that you can get through in a couple of hours.

Scary Rating 3/10 - Overall Rating 8/10
Next up: lily's world XD

Donkey Kong Land is a masterpiece tragically stuck on GameBoy.

Short as it is, the compact level design exceeds the quality of the original Donkey Kong Country. One liiiitle increase in aspect ratio and it'd be universally recognized as the better game. Every other level introduces creative mechanics that flip the way you think about progression. It matches the pace of the Mario Galaxy games in this regard. You'll breeze through levels themed around rolling tires, terrifying stalker squids, self directed moving platforms and sky-high rope climbing all in quick succession. It slaps you in the face with new ideas one after another.

The two inch GameBoy screen is the major hindrance here. Enemies and obstacles frequently pop into existence before you can register them. Static environments and moving parts are visually muddy, although the GameBoy Color and Super GameBoy can remedy this issue. Playing this in widescreen on a modern TV would be a dream come true.

The music is thankfully not held back by the hardware whatsoever. It rivals Pokemon Red in pushing the teeny GameBoy speaker to its absolute limits. Never thought a game on this system could establish such strong atmosphere with just its music but here we are. My only complaint is that Gang-Plank Galleon is not used in the K-rool fight despite being present elsewhere in the game.

Now this is a game from 1995 we are talking about. I am occasionally willing to be lenient with age related issues, but it's true the constant one hit KO's that send you back to the map are frustrating. DKL would greatly benefit from a game-over system more similar to Celeste. Quick respawns make bashing your head into a wall much more bearable and sometimes even fun. Something to consider when Nintendo releases the Donkey Kong Land HD remaster at 70$.

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