Recent reviews by Randomish Lodestone

I really wanted to like this game but there were so many small issues that, piled up just don't make it enjoyable. Two-colour graphics are cool at first but get old as everything just starts to blend together. Your swing has barely any range even if you get the sword upgrade. Enemies aren't knocked back (which I can normally excuse but in the context of everything else here I can't ignore). There's practically no story. Money feels completely irrelevant. I'm almost at 500 and there's not much to buy or let alone do anything with aside from just getting a bigger wallet. Graphics aren't that interesting to keep with the palette, feels like I'm playing a Playdate game. There's barely any save points so exploring is a complete slog and I've spent most of the run so far backtracking because I died in a far spot and have to go all the way back. Music is the only thing I can't criticize. It's pretty good.

I stopped right after getting a ham, not knowing what it does and then being forced to use it in the forest Orc fight (essentially wasting it) and then having to backtrack ALL the way back to the forest from the town because there's no save points.

At this point, with no story to be invested in, graphics not standing out and it being a pain to get anywhere I don't see a point to keep playing. There's nothing to keep me interested.

Absolutely gorgeous visuals, excellent music, cryptic story and the perfect amount of trial and error to figure out the puzzle. Really good stuff. It even has an extensive post-game that allow you to do all the puzzles in reverse from a new perspective.

My only issues with it are that the level just before the final level is actually do-able but it's BS that the game forces you to lose to it and that 4-6 is by far the hardest level in the entire game. 4-6 is complete BS in how it just expects you to brute fource your way to beat it. Almost gave up the run because of it.

Other than that the difficulty is perfect. The invisible enemies gimmick was total crap but still do-able. Still progressing through the post-game as I write this.

Also, despite what the store page says this game is fully playable with a controller. You just need a mouse occasionally to pause or access menus.