Recent reviews by Six Python

I really loved this game, and I wanted to share my thoughts and feedback with both potential players and the developers.
First of all, I didn't have any high expectations of the game, but the art style caught my attention and it is truly good
The story follows the Crow King, an anthropomorphic bird(?) ruling a kingdom and expanding his lands further and further. That's actually the whole story. It's quite simple, but it's still interesting to follow, and the game actively keeps you engaged.
A few words about the mechanics: I'm not fond of deck-builder genres, so I was quite skeptical before I ran it.
Here's how the gameplay works: you start with a deck on a battlefield. The field consists of columns and the final column is the base that you need to destroy. Every turn your cards (that you put at the first column) advance further and each new column buffs your card. However, if you hit the final column (the enemy's base), your card will die.
The gameplay is based on collecting cards on your way to the boss, defeating them and continuing the cycle. There are tons of things that may happen to your cards and you can create unique combinations. For instance, I had a card that gives me money and boosts morale for each poisoned card, so I made half my deck poisoned and that way I could farm money.
The thing that I found cool is that the game is divided into two Acts and the mechanics in each Act are distinct, which allows you to replay both of them and it feels genuinely different. The story is not that long, but endless mode solves this problem.
After all of the above, there are some drawbacks that developers may take into account for their future projects (and I hope there will be more games from them).
Maybe it's my personal problem, but it was hard to understand the descriptions of some cards. English is not my native language, so sometimes I switched to Russian to make sure I got everything right, but it didn't clarify much, and the only thing left was to test it in practice. Moreover, there are some cards whose purpose I can't understand even now. Why would I even use them? Some cards can cause freezing or bleeding and I don't know how I'm supposed to use them to gain an advantage. Yes. there is tutorial and manual in game but it lacks details
Another small element that I found annoying is that the history of your dead cards shows only their name and the cause of death. But sorry guys, I don't remember what the cards are called. It would be much better if I could hover over the name to see what the card is, or if I could name a card myself, because two the same card types can exist in your deck with the same name.
Honestly, all these drawbacks didn't affect me much and the game still feels amazing and draws me back to try new combinations or find the rest of the unopened cards.
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♥♥♥♥ Bilewater, but the location's soundtrack is divine

It's better to die for the emperor than live for yourself

Hollow Knight is 2D side-scrolling game which makes you flame on it and love it
Gameplay is made in the best traditions of metroidvania - styled games

First things first i wanna say about the world
It's huge, it's very huge and beautiful.You can feel the atmosphere because of music and dungeons that filled with cockroachs and the other insects.
You have to discovery a depths of the Hollownest (The biggest kingdom)
Upgrading yourself by finding charms. Few of the upgrades are being bought through the various merchats that are scattered around in different locations for Geo (Geo's the value of Hallownest)
Thanks to the amount of different locations, The Knight is able to use stagways as some sort fast-travel system between them.
Throughout the world the Knight will encounter various NPCs. By talking to them he can learn about lore and secrets of Kingdom.
As long as game progresses you will get spells that make your Knight more powerfull.
Protagonist uses Nail as his weapon in Hollownest. During the game you will be abble to upgrade it.
Also the Protagonist uses SOULS for healing and using spells. To get SOULS, The Knight needs to damage enemies.
To accompany the incredible level design and art of it, there are a lot different bosses, to which you must learn the patterns first and then defeat them.
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1228608847

"It is better to die for the Emperor than live for yourself"

One of the best RTS of all time.