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Alwa's Legacy (Switch)

Overall I think this one's better than Alwa's Awakening. The gameplay is blessedly much faster, you get more movement abilities, there's more character progression (meaning more reasons to explore), and it's less linear. I liked it a lot.

I will say it could use a bit more polish. For one thing, even though the game is like 99% sprites, it seems like they modeled the water using actual fluid dynamics?? So the Switch really starts chugging any time moving water is on screen. Kinda unacceptable for a 2D retro game like this. The load times are also embarrassingly long. Most annoying, though, is that the game eats your button inputs sometimes. After attacking, being hit, and sometimes during your run cycle, there's a moment where you can't jump. It doesn't make the game unplayable, but like... it's a platformer. Jumping is the thing. Maybe make sure it works right before you go gold? Sometimes your attacks randomly don't hurt enemies, too. It's frustrating, but rarely a big issue.

The story for the two games is also pretty bad! It's mostly an excuse plot, which is fine, but there are constant hints that there's something deeper going on and then the game just doesn't follow through on any of it. As far as I can tell there really aren't multiple endings, either. Bizarre!

KCF0107 posted...

I bought that like five years thinking it would be right up my alley, but I just found it underwhelming and dropped it around halfway

Halfway is around when it opens up and gets somewhat better, but fundamentally it's the same game all the way through, so if you weren't feeling it I don't think more time with it would change things.