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I wanted to like this game. It is fun for a while but it is frustrating to play this on keyboard and I would only tell people to try this game if they have a controller. I played it only in singleplayer and I’m sure it would be much more fun to play it with friends. I like the pixelated graphic of the game.


The game in singleplayer has some story but the whole gameplay was made for controller. There is no way to change the key bindings and no list of key bindings so I had to try every key on keyboard to see what they do. Z – jump/confirm, X – shuriken/back, C – sword/change name, V – special weapon but you can’t start the game – to start the game you need to press P as that is start – not enter not space just P. Don’t try to play this on keyboard as you will instinctively try to jump by pressing space and you will often forget where is what type of attack. For me this was the worst keyboard layout ever and it was stupid that I could not change it. Also there is no way to exit the game as there is no exit option and ESC does nothing and if you want to quit game you have to use ALT+F4. This shows that this game is a very lazy low effort console port. Also maybe it is just me but I think this game has some memory leak problems and it made my PC crash after about 2 hours.


Short game that is more fun with friends but you should never try to play it without controller.

Overall score 3.5/10