Mastodawn

➤I went in those nooks and crannies and scooped up the last of the notes and upgrade materials. I still don't have the money to buy the upgrades.
➤Turns out the light fragments are for the upgrade to the new form.
➤Looks like I encountered a couple bugs. There's a couple rooms the map that don't fill in even though I explored them.
➤Worse bug, I found the conductor to start his quest, but it looks like I already beat the boss relating to the quest so now I can't finish it. I did the same thing for some other band members and it worked properly.
➤So I went and beat the final boss. It was a good fight. A sprinkle of needing the different armors.
➤96% completion in about 7 hours
➤I liked the game overall. It could use some polish (and bug fixes). I would recommend it.
➤Health system is flawed in my opinion. There needs to be a better balance between healing and damage output of enemies. Spending health to shoot is a pain point.
➤Music is dope too. I don't see that you can buy the album anywhere!

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PaseoBaggage Apr 1

➤New area, had to enable some generators and unlock some paths to the upper part of the map.
➤Lots of bosses in this section.
➤Chess boss was annoying since there's been no previous fight where switching armors constantly was necessary. Neat idea though.
➤Giant grim reaper boss kept flying into me at high speeds whenever I went to hit him.
➤Your friend (who you run into one (1) single time before now) is possessed by the curse. Cool fight. I had to finish it by with the Zeus armor charged attack since the boss was moving around too much.
➤The throne guard took me the longest. She has lots of counterattack moves if you hit her at the wrong time and she ends the fight by constantly teleporting and launching huge projectiles. Very difficult to get hits in.
➤Actual story progress! Apino ran off and we learn he's sad little boy's heart with the pain taking over his body.
➤Got a glow up with some new armor and can make those long jumps. No more Zeus armor though and I can't do a charged attack? But I upgraded that armor!
➤Going to clean up the few areas I couldn't reach before then go for the boss.

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PaseoBaggage Mar 27

➤I've got the last armor and now we can explore the hot areas.
➤I also got the transformation to let you glide. That boss in the portrait was kind of unclear. I didn't realize it was the fireballs I was bouncing off of that were hurting him. I kept running into his face.
➤Although the bosses are getting harder they tend to leave a large amount of time to heal. I haven't had to really learn a pattern to succeed.
➤The quick heal QTE is part of this. If you are low on health you are better off taking a hit and using the invincibility frames to ace the QTE.
➤It's as I feared: I've run low on money unlocking all those warp points and now I'd have to grind to afford another upgrade.
➤There's something else I've collected and I'm not sure what it's for. No one in the theater seems to want it for upgrades.
➤There must be one more upgrade to let me cross these spiky gaps. Maybe it's a transformation for the Zeus armor.
➤I've got a little over 70% completion. I should be nearing the end soon.

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PaseoBaggage Mar 22

➤I've continued exploring and unlocked some teleporter rooms.
➤I got the Gaia armor and the snake transformation
➤I fought a very annoying boss that jumps around and throws bouncing axes. The room is very large and everything comes flying in from offscreen at a high speed. It was very tough to dodge if you weren't already where you needed to be.
➤Also there was no save point next to it. Had to do a short runback with each attempt.
➤I feel like most switches I hit just unlock a water column to swim upward.
➤Was money really needed in this game? Every upgrade needs its own 'currency' anyway. If I don't have enough I'll just have to grind which is not ideal.
➤I upgraded the Poseidon armor so now it's just stronger than all the others.
➤I'm only missing a couple of relics if the status screen is to be believed.
➤Despite increasing my health a few times, it still feels like two hits depletes the health bar.

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PaseoBaggage Mar 19

➤Metroidvania time! I've heard this is a fairly short game, but a good one
➤Controls feel good and you have a good amount of reach on your attacks. Solid backdash to boot.
➤There's some elevators for getting around, but even with skipping the cutscene they are long
➤The health feels very low. There's a mechanic for regaining your health when you run out, so it seems to be more about finding a window to recover your health if you take too much damage. You heal by hugging a floating sentient teddy bear, so that's neat.
➤You do heal by striking enemies normally.
➤You can shoot the bear out to strike things, but it costs health. There was a few times my health ran out and I couldn't shoot.
➤Bosses have been on the easier side so far. I've noticed very rigid attack patterns. They still took me a few tries.
➤I've got the Zeus and Poseidon armor and the mermaid transformation.
➤Things are moving at a good pace. Upgraded my health a couple of times and I might have enough to upgrade an armor.

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Rakuno 🐀Jul 19, 2025

It took me way more tries than I'd like to admit and almost made me think about quitting the game but I was able to beat the boss in the Shadow of Hope.

That third phase was just a bit too hard for my terrible reaction times.