Cogen Sword of Rewind Review - Noisy Pixel 

I just played through a couple hours of the game myself, through the first three stages, and I agree with a number of these complaints, but my concerns are mainly the passivity the rewind feature can encourage, and the "death loops" you can get stuck in. The issue with passivity I think is that the rewind meter, essentially your "health," acts like a Halo shield: Meaning that basically any time you spend some of it, your best bet is to just camp motionless until it refills. it makes what should be a snappy action game like Mega Man Zero or Gunvolt feel just a bit too plodding. The death loops are maddening: It's only happened a few times so far, but it's possible to get into scenarios where you can rewind, but literally not have any way to get out of a scenario that would kill you. Both main times were in stage 3: One time I got trapped in a corner behind a shielding enemy and there was no way to get past them without getting hit, and rewinding would always warp me back in the corner. Another time was during a certain fire attack by the stage 3 boss, where there simply wasn't any angle I could use to escape being hit, even with rewinding. It essentially means you're "the walking dead" without quite realizing and it feels cheap. I'm definitely going to see this game through to the end, though: GemDrops turned me into an faithful follower with Crystar and how fucking BONKERS that story and progression got even though the game itself wasn't very good, so I'm kinda hoping there's some twist to Cogen as well!

Never been good at the harder 2d action game’s so I may skip. The art style is really nice though!! Thanks for the review!

I'm not sure if I'm just not getting it right but I already played the main game a lot and didn't find this "randomness" that has been said. I just think that this game relies on you memorizing the enemy placements on each stage and think of a way on how to traverse it fast. But if you're just playing this just to finish it or know about the really short story it has? It will be so frustrating. I already poured 23 hours of play time on this one and might pour more once I played the DLCs lol. But hey! Nice review!

3:20 - "Relying on incarnate "randomness"". "Out of nowhere scenarios" > Then shows a clip of them dying to enemies literally showing you the path of their attack with lasers. Bro. What?!

Got both Cogen amd Gunvolt Azure 2 physical

Gonna try the demo, but I gotta clear Deedlit's game before I grab another action/platformer. Looks freaking spectacular tho, and her voice is stellar, agreed!

I beat the game in about 8hr (not including the DLC) and I totally agree that the story was a bit lacking. But none the less it was a fun play. I can't say it was worth 40 bucks (got the physical Asia version) but it's still worth a play. They were spot on about the increasing difficulty, it was quite the challenge. But overall, I really enjoyed the game. I am a Dark Souls fan so take my enjoyment with a grain of salt.

Based on the demo, I agree. The game is gorgeous; a great example that games don’t need better graphics than pixel-art to look good and clearly convey information, and the voice-actress really brings an endearing character to life. But not only did the challenges seem “trollish”, the controls didn’t feel right - I can’t quite get ahold of the double-jump, wall-climb, and air-dash despite my experience playing Hollow Knight and Metroid Dread. I’m certainly no master of either of those games, but I seldom felt like the movement options were fighting me (even with joycon drift). What’s worse, there’s no “aerial downward strike” for clearing enemies (especially tiny moving enemies) off of the one tiny platform you must jump on to advance. On top of that, the game is just HARD, often demanding that I keep track of the timing for at least three different threats at once with very little time to make an error.

It’s very choppy because every time you get hit it goes into the time rewind thing and it’s annoying to the put I wish I could turn off

Definitely didn't get that vibe of randomness from the demo.

Well, I loved the demo, so I preordered the physical version.

Sounds similar to Double Cross where a MM successor just needs to get a sequel to turn out something great.

This game plays amazing, but lso ittle content out of the box with paid DLC stages...

I just got the game on pc tell me why my ass died 136 times on the first lv 😑

so it's just the same difficulty of og megaman games

On sale on xbox. Metroidvania? Or normal levels?

This game is hard as balls! Only meant for people who enjoy being punished over and over and over.

No matter how many big words u use or how elegant u try to describe the game, it honestly sounds like it just all boils down to you just not being good at the game

yea i have no interest in this game. i love 2d side scrollers/metroidvanias, but nothing looks interesting or fun. i dont care about stories, graphics look crappy, level design looks trash. ill stick to dead cells, hollow knight, ender lillies, blasphemous, and my other 2d games i havent finished yet

Oof, I really don't care for the rewind gimmick and the environments look terribly boring and lazy. It's like all the effort was put into the protagonist. Damn it.

The wall jump is as shit a metroid fusion wall jump, and the voice acting is cringe inducing. The rewind gimmick with one hit kill is awfully bad.

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looks like a cheap generic Mobile title that looks like a rip-off from the gunvolt series., that's bland dull and boring.