Cyber Shadow - Easy Allies Review 

Its also on Gamepass, dont necessarily have to buy it.

@@mwmrhdm Only for a limited time before it gets rotated out,

Messenger really that good?

@@KenpoJuJitsu3 a solid 7.5/10 without nostalgia goggles. The 2nd half of the game suffers from poor design and making you backtrack so much that it becomes a slog. The writing and platforming is phenomenal though.

@@mrdan523 yea I loved the gameplay of the messenger, especially the boss fights. But the second half was pretty annoying and confusing.

@@KenpoJuJitsu3 Its good, until it turns into a metroidvania imo...

@@reed1645 sounds like resident evil 7 boat

I agree. The game, however, is absolutely fantastic. On a side note--those moths or butterfly fucking things are the bane of my existence. I cannot stand them.

@@nerdfather7361 oh yeah fuck those bugs

Does it work on RU-vid mobile app? Because I can't find any search function

Just buy it later on sale 😉

Same

It's on Game Pass

It's pretty short and it's on Gamepass 100% recommend giving it a try

I don't have Xbox or Game pass but will buy it later. Finishing up Ghost of Tsushima, Demon's Souls, P5 Royal, Nioh 2, Days Gone lol

It's on Game Pass, I've been playing it, it is pretty great

check out both bushiden and moonrider that are coming out in the future.

@@kollatt Wow...i just looked it up. I am very hyped for Bushiden!

The messenger might be better for you

@@danielmales123 yea, I enjoyed the messenger quite a bit. Cyber shadow is still good and the pixel art is fantastic. It's just not as good as I'd hoped.

@@danielmales123 Correct messenger is on completaly different lvl. I'm afraid that after the messenger no game will live up to the quality and freedom that the messenger gave me.

What no ducking? No buy.

Then it seems to play in line with classic NES Ninja Gaiden

Same

Gonna hijack this and add Blue Shadow (Shadow of the Ninja) to it o/ it's an old NES game with Mega Man difficulty.

44 hours for me

Some checkpoints taking too long to get to, not much story, some people won't like no lives and continues for a pure retro challenge, no new game plus that you see in a lot of retro inspired games. I already bought it and think it looks fantastic but those are the negative things they pointed out.

I agree. I'm not super familiar with Easy Allies, but it does seem like they omit the conclusion at the end for no good reason. The only thing I can think of is they don't want to be too similar to their former employer IGN. But if you ask me, that's not the best reason. There's a reason why most reviews run through the major aspects in the conclusion at the end of the review (to go with the score), and Easy Allies seems to ignore that

@@mrredisa.d.d.8566 Easy Allies was never employed by IGN

@@charoleawood lol right. I was like...... What I miss

@@mrredisa.d.d.8566 They weren't ever employed by IGN. Their former website was Gametrailers.

I agree. I looooove the messenger but at the end it was dragging.

I liked The Messenger's gameplay more, but this is still good.

I'm 42 and I'm managing.

First we need it to return in 3D and be great. Maybe they can do it Curse of the Moon style, have a three hour long 8bit promotional game ahead of the 3D one.

watch this channel that guy has another one on which he makes streams he create fan game ninja gaiden ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_WuDzcZu7YU.html

the position is wrong tho

I just got a Series controller, playing on PC, and it is a really great D-pad. Too bad Ghifari77 didn't want to say which controller they thought was best for 2D gaming...

Perhaps it's like the Bloodborne attitude toward shields, crouching "Engenders passivity". Maybe Ninja Gaiden speed runners don't use crouching much, I don't know. I've been playing Cyber Shadow and it doesn't feel as though crouching is a technique that has been removed, rather the whole game has been built so that the player never has to crouch. I do think it would be a nice thing to patch in, but surely the developer would fear that it borks the game. I play normal Souls more aggressively than Bloodborne anyhow because I CAN block but FromSoft never asked ME about it, clearly they were looking at those players who used it as a crutch, surely it was the same with Aarne Hunziker and the design of Cyber Shadow.

Weird thing to get hung up on.

No, we're not over it. Every time a video like this one is posted people like you show up that are "over" retro games in spite of never playing them, so you must be blind if you "never see any complaints" like yours. It should be no skin off your back anyhow, these retro games tend to be tiny budget games for a niche audience. Soon you'll forget the name Cyber Shadow if you don't play it (but you should play it, it's on Game Pass), but even if you never touch a big budget open world game you won't be allowed to forget it exists. The problem with big budget open world games is their ubiquity and that each one is designed to monopolize your time. I say this as somebody who likes open world games but we've been copy/pasting GTA3 for 20 YEARS, and that would be fine if they were small budget games for niche audiences, but they aren't. How much experience do you have anyhow with NES style games?

@@charoleawood I really do hardly see any mention or complaints of recycled retro-style games. People just love the nostalgia, and I get it. I love me some nostalgia, too, but you gotta look at things objectively. Never complain about another open world game or a walking sim, while you're playing the 647 millionth retro side-scroller I have played many NES style games, and they're fun. I don't have a problem with them existing, per say. I guess I just have issue with the hypocrisy of many "gamers" when it comes to complaining about a lack of originality, yet they gobble this stuff up. That's all.

@@savageplanet8299 Well, I'm playing the game right now because of this review, you should check it out too

It’s hard to judge a game after a “tiny” amount of gameplay. I’d recommend giving it another shot!

It gets better the more you play it.