7/4/2023 0 Comments Phoenotopia awakening guide![]() Now, there are difficulty options for turning off both of these things (as well as for making energy start recharging faster, allowing food to be eaten instantly from menu rather than consumed over time mid-combat, and having longer invincibility after taking damage) but it seems as though the default/how the game wants you to play is to have all difficulty adjustments set to off. When performing your regular (or “quick”) attack, not only does it consume your energy bar, it also does less damage with each successive attack. ![]() In particular there were many times during boss fights where I had the sense that avoiding certain attacks required pixel-perfect precision on jumping or whatever else.Īdditionally, the game features a stamina system tied mostly to combat but which also has the side-effect of slowing down other parts of the game, such as the many times when you might want to smash up some crates or pots. Enemies are very strong and can reduce your limited healthpool to critical or empty levels in no time at all, especially since dodging them can be arbitrarily challenging at times. Combat, on the other hand, is a good deal weaker. The controls are tight and all in all the platforming aspects feel very satisfying, especially once you start to really get a handle on the more advanced techniques. The player character Gail has some satisfying movement, including sprints, rolls, and maneuvers that let you cancel or negate certain things like landing hard from a fall or getting knocked around by a strong enemy. ![]() The gameplay of Phoenotopia: Awakening is, for the most part, that of a side-scrolling metroidvania. Developer: Cape Cosmic Publisher: Flyhigh Works Genre: Metroidvania Nintendo SwitchĪre you ever playing a game, dear reader, and find yourself thinking “I mean yeah this is pretty close to being my jam but there’s just one or two things putting me off about it”? That’s largely how I feel about Phoenotopia: Awakening, an expanded-upon remake of a 2014 Flash Game known simply as Phoenotopia. ![]()
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