Wibblewozzer
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Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/app/428550/
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvZhXtu5Wc
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight explores a cursed land in decline. Evil spreads, the dead rise, and corruption reigns. Hope is but a faded memory for all but one, a priestess named Kaho from the village of Lun. An audience with her majesty, the queen, would surely save the land--but time is short and each night darker than the last.
"Reverie Under the Moonlight is the fourth entry in the Momodora series, a side-scrolling platformer focused on action gameplay, with melee combos, dodge mechanics and a plethora of items and spells to unleash upon your enemies. Play casually for the rich setting and mysterious story or crank up the difficulty to run your reflexes through a truly brutal gauntlet."
That's the description from the developers and from having played the last game and by all accounts this one seems bigger and better I'd have to say that sounds like a proper description.
Features from the Steam page:
"Beautifully animated graphics
Exciting action gameplay - combo, dodge and skewer enemies with arrows
Intense boss battles with challenging patterns and epic scale
Difficulty settings appropriate for all, from story and setting lovers to hardcore action enthusiasts
A breadth of items that can be combined to create new strategies
A widely varied world to explore, filled with secrets and treasures
Eccentric allies and foes with compelling personalities
Mysterious lore and rich backstory in events, dialog and item descriptions"
I played through the third game towards the end of last year and thought it was a great, short game. It's fairly comparable to something like Cave Story but melee-focused and shorter on your first time through. It took me a bit over an hour to go through it but I definitely didn't uncover a bunch of the secrets and optional stuff. I think there's even a better ending? Suffice it to say there's more to it than a simple one-hour romp if you care about digging for secrets and such.
After going through Momodora III I was curious to see what those folks were up to and I found they were well into Momodora IV and had a Patreon. I signed up just to chip in $5/month since I wanted to see them get it made. Which is why I got the e-mail alerting me of the release date announcement. And here we are. I don't have a hand in this. I don't know anyone on the team or have any part of the creation. They're a small group that made a fun game (and I think the first two games in the series are free on their site) and I'm hoping to get them a bit of attention to spread the fun.
It's $10 with a 10% discount for the first week.
Impressions from a GAFfer:
It's VERY 'Vania.
I've played for just over an hour and I have like nine different places I can go and five different places I can't go because the door opens from the other side or is locked with a key or mechanism I haven't found yet. There's a map screen and it looks quite a lot like the Symphony Of The Night one, stylewise.
There's also money and items you can buy or find, like one that lowers your chance to get inflicted with status ailments, and your typical Raise Max HP stat upgrades, which tend to be behind punchable walls. I haven't discovered meat inside walls yet, but here's hoping.
There's also a Dark Soulsy influence with the save points, which not only replenish your health, but also max out your healing items, initially to three but later to more as you get upgrades. Also, there's a greyed out Warp option so I guess there will be a teleport between save points functionality later.
Standard enemies are more brutal than bosses on average, but there's a fair few feisty bosses too in all shapes and sizes.
Beginner tip: Try not to fight everyone right at the beginning, the shield peoples in particular are brutal and will own you with their sick moves. Just jump and/or roll past them because you are puny at the start. I feel like I was bashing my head against a wall for the first ten minutes but once I overcame the hurdle of my OCD telling me to kill everything, progress came swiftly in all directions.
And here's a giveaway for a few copies of Momodora III because it's short enough that you'll play through it and want more and then I'll leave it to all of you to get your own copies of the new game!
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Momodora III #3 --MB-0166EFBD123650C9- Taken by Miff. 19 entrants total.
Momodora III #2 --MB-D6B0801779D66C95- Taken by KimChi. 20 entrants total.
Momodora III --MB-A17EFE80E5502D54- Taken by Tremis. 14 entrants total.
A thread Speevy made back in 2014 that got practically zero attention for Momodora III (four replies) - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=959392
Steam page for Momodora III - http://store.steampowered.com/app/302790/
And now I've finally made my first thread on here after years of being a member. Hurrah.
Edit: Updated with price.