#Blud 

Just like enchanted portals

@@canaldequalquercoisa7012no enchanted portals was just rushed and lacked funding because people were wrongly calling it a cuphead clone. I disagreed with it being a clone when it was just trailers because theming, plot, and bosses were much different. What we saw of the gameplay and animation were kinda similar but there is no rubber hose style and the gameplay had variance

@@SuperDestroyerFox yes, but as I said, the game design was really bad, almost everything wasn't working properly or in a good way. The game is really nice in terms of animation, but it's barely playable, but idk about now, maybe they fixed it?

@@canaldequalquercoisa7012 oh yeah I agree with you on it’s bad at least at release but I think that’s because it was rushed because everyone said it was a cuphead clone and also because kickstarter failed they had MUCH less budget(I’m pretty sure it failed)

@@SuperDestroyerFox that's a shame, the game had a lot of potential

Ps5 platinum difficulty?

Nah this sounds like a nightmare to me who fears missing out game content for not exploring throughly enough

Sounds like a game for people who like to replay. And to achievement queens. Cry more. Achievements shouldn't change a games direction. The game is meant to be replayed, not easy achievements.

I’m with you, I’m working full time and I don’t have a lot of time so these types of games are wonderful for me

Cookie Cutter and Clash: Artifacts of Chaos are both very, very solid games with awesome art direction around that playtime. Can warmly recommend them both. Cookie Cutter is, like Blud, hand-drawn 2D animated and a more combat-heavy Metroidvania. Though the lead dev also has a story he very much wants to tell and was *very* adamant to find a publisher that wouldn't interfere in the vision. (went over a hundred publisher interviews before he found the one.) As is, the game has ended on a cliffhanger due to budget-- but support so far has been good. Recently there was confirmation that the devs keep work going. There are big updates in the works with new story beats, weapons, bosses, areas, characters etc. which can extend the playtime. Keep an eye out on the upcoming Genokids. Hack-and-Slash/character action type game which I believe is said to be around... six, perhaps seven hours for a normal playthrough, but the devs go all in on the combat. Would want to mention Soulstice as well. Same genre, came out 2022, has some rough spots and one of them has been that either the beginning or the middle dragged on for certain people. But it's got production values like Darksiders, with a *lot* of love for both the story and characters, and a big amount of depth in the combat. Character Action games are sometimes described as that the first full playthrough is the tutorial, and I don't disagree in Soulstice's case. But that's not a bad thing. Means you can get more gameplay out of a single game if i *want* to after experiencing the story once. There's so many games to look forward to that are worth spreading the word on. And that does include Blud, despite all its shortcomings.

I like games with long playtimes or that I can replay for hours.I DON’T however like games that achieve that playtime with padding instead of a fun and interesting gameplay loop. A game that takes 100 hours to complete is worse than a game that takes 20 if those 100 hours are mostly padding.

It depends on the game, stuff like Yakuza is rightfully long, I feel like it would be way less enjoyable if it was a short game

I've seen a pattern that the most celebrated indie games take the arcade-style of gameplay approach that a lot of 90s platformers took inspiration from. Make the overall exprience short but sweet and then have a bunch of bonuses and secrets that add a lot of replayability This is why the original Crash triology for example still hold up, their core gameplay mechanic has aged well

GET OUT

​@@Lucas-dy5mt Blud is mad ☠️

"BRO REALLY JUST SAID THIS" wow great meme, keep doing it

​@@jankington216blud doesnt like the meme💀

2.1$ per hour!

@@parisulki729 As long as the time spent is enjoyable, I’ll take $2/hour for a fun little indie game over AAA $70 games that last 150 hours but only 30 hours of that is genuinely fun.

@@parisulki729 I’m not sure if this is meant as a complaint or not. But I’d much rather spend about $2/hr on a game that I enjoyed all 12 hours of than your typical AAA experience of only spending around $1.50/hr, but only actually enjoying about 20 hours of that 45 hour experience, with the rest being tedious grinding and annoying minigames and lengthy travel times where nothing interesting happens.

@@parisulki729wow, underpaid much? sheesh.

I generally want at least an hour per dollar but with inflation 2 dollars per hour seems reasonable.

Horrible way to engage with art

Kinda like Don't Starve and Cult of The Lamb?

​@@Kyumifun No. Those games you'd definitely wanna play instead

⁠@@Kyumifun Nah, more like SSB Brawl & (most) FNAF games.

@@BobbinRobbin777LOL Brawl is fun as hell

Yes! And we need more

@@fireplacegamingYT absolutely i feel a stardrw valley type deal would fit this style great

@abbiebabbles hell yeah boy CAMP LAKE BOTTOM WHERE THE ZOMBIES RULE🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

CAMP LAKEBOTTOM WHERE THE SPOOKS ARE COOL! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Does remind me of Canadian cartoons

The bosses are fantastic and I didn’t catch the John Carpenter reference that’s pretty cool!

those jokes are in the trailer too 😭

I don't understand

​@chideraumejiaku3895 blud is not gettin it 💀

amazing group😂

"rizz" "blud" this is truly the gen alpha game

@@omgman5745 gen z*

@@Lazarus971 reflection

@@omgman5745 🪞

So true! I hate games that are too long, I will get bored of them before I can finish

A lot of people dislike games they feel are too short. No matter what the actual quality is. This is something movies and novels struggle with too.

i think it depends on the person. i know i love really really long games that are extremely in depth with story (100 - 150 hours)

Nothing more off-putting than a 40-hour plus slog with too much busy work

@@Eva17-kp2ki ok but obviously you aren't getting that from this type of game

(I ran past entire enemy sections in the last boss fight area because there was just no reason to stick around and fight them when I could just grab items from the boxes, run past them, and go to the next phase without risking all that damage for no payoff.)

As I mentioned in my own comment, I think having the enemies drop money and health items would give you more incentive to actually fight them. Whole stretches of them can just be straight-up avoided in the last boss area because the game will let you just go to the next part of the boss fight without finishing them and why risk that damage for no payoff?

That freezer area was a war crime

A guy who recorded blud in Poland calls them fire banshees

A fairly odd selection indeed!

that’s the sequel

Tord

In sumary: He finds the pacing of the story a bit jarring at time, could be a little bit longer and devellop some aspects more. The UI can be confusing and make it hard to track quests. The combat has an unconsistant feel to it. The range of move on the main character is pretty limited can make combat a bit repetitive sometime. The dodge mecanic has no invicibility frame which make it easy to send yourself into the big bosses hitbox or an enemey, which can be frustrating and make it feel a bit off. He wishes either there were i frames or that more enemies telegraphed their attack better.

Great summary, thanks for putting it together!

​@@s.m.2523maybe they could make a dlc story that fixes those problems

@@s.m.2523did he mention the SFX in the cutscenes playing too much? thats the biggest issue for me personally

I honestly found that endearing as it was definitely like old cartoons 😂 but I understand why it could be annoying because they do use the SFX often

I-Frame is short for invincibility frame. Some games make you invincible while dodging and others don't.

It’s isn’t too bad, but with a bit of polishing and feedback from players they can either patch it or release something a lot better

its not any sort of bait if thats LITERALLY the game it does everything right but the gameplay focused stuff is a big problem just be normal and put your resentment of a formant thats been being used properly forever aside

@@iconica9516 Alright fair enough

Question mark?

Wth is xenophobic

@@14days61 it's when you're scared of aliens invading the place you live or something like that

@@newtonmarques1271 wow new weird phobia i never heard about -

@@14days61you’ve been lied to, xenophobia is basically just a fear of anything different from yourself that is usually used to describe those who are racist or prejudiced towards others that do not fall into a similar line to them