Afterimage
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Afterimage is a metroidvania, side scroller and female protagonist game
developed by Aurogon Shanghai
and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Released on April 24th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 7,524 reviews of which 5,863 were positive and 1,661 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 (64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
- DirectX: Version 11
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Not on the level of Hollow Knight, but still a good game. The map is large, locations are not too difficult, there are all sorts of secrets, everything is as it should be. I personally did not have enough strong bosses in this game. 🐨9/10🐨
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A very pretty metroidvania 34 hours for all achievements, but that ignored the Trial of Souls Boss fighting content. The good: Artwork Combat Music The neutral: Story The bad: Pacing Artwork I don't need to say much here. This game is really pretty. Convince yourself by looking at the trailer, it looks beautiful the entire way through. Combat Combat works like most 2d metroidvania's. You have weapons, explicitely melee of course, and you hit stuff before they kill you. You have two weapon slots and there are 8 weapon types, each with a unique moveset. Movesets consist of a normal combo and a number of special attacks. Your two equipped weapons can be switched at will and used interchangably to pull off all sorts of shenanigans. Special attacks are slightly fancier, and were my general go-to over normal attacks. On keyboard at least, some of the controls for special attacks did feel awkward to use. You have a subweapon, using it costs mana, it does magic, and I have no clue where to find an explanation of what some spells do. I used some of them that were self-explanatory on use, but they felt a bit underpowered (especially towards the end, where one of my weapons was draining mana in exchange for more power too). Other equipment does exist too, it does equipment stuff and the effects are interesting enough. Furthermore, you can equip up to x afterimages, which are even more interchangable buffs. Music The music is fitting, definitely one of the better soundtracks out there. Full game voice acting is also good. Story Nothing too special, and quite confusing around the middle. Things become mostly clear in the end though, and it doesn't distract from the gameplay. Pacing Not just the story is a bit weirdly paced, abilities are too. Most of the game, it is unclear where the next item of progression is, and due to enemies having (invisible) levels, areas are obviously meant to be done in a particular order. Most of the time, it is fairly obvious where you can't go and where you can, and if you scout out areas in full you generally find what you need. This does make it feel like stumbling upon a useful thing by accident, which is nice, but can be really frustrating if you think you explored everything. Conclusion Despite the pacing issues, the game is absolutely great. The combat is enjoyable, and there is a lot of it. Experimenting with weapons is fun, and stumbling upon random stuff is really fun too. The developers did a great job.
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I think the game is alright but there are few things you would want to consider. Combat is a bit unusual. Dashing in this game has no invincible frame (not until very very late into the game, like half way through the second last zone) and there is no blocking or parry either. The main way to mitigate damages is to jump over the enemies, which has its own problem because some of the enemies are very tall or hovering in the air. On top of not having an iframe dash is that there is collision damage which is a big nuisance. It was the main source of damage I took during my playthrough because the range of some of the weapon I used is very short so I ended up dashing into enemies, collided and took the damage instead of landing right next to them. These are things that you have to get comfortable with. Otherwise, just don't buy it. There are some really hard platformings which I thoroughly enjoyed. One was the area with one of the end game boss I stumbled upon where I was not supposed to be in because 1. my level was way too low 2. I didn't have the ability to reach there yet in an intended way. So I came up with an overly convoluted way to try and get there and then died to the boss. It was fun though, figuring out the way to make the best use of my limited abilities and squeeze them dry. Other than that are just hard-to-execute jumping. All in all, I give this game thumb up because I like it, thoroughly enjoyed. Do I recommend it? Nah, you wouldn't like it. 4/5
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandparents ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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The gameplay is great. The world is large. The narrative is completely idiotic. Apparently things happened before. Now you kill things en masse. Sometimes there are conversations that feel like the work of ChatGpt- early beta. There are words. They make sense in isolation but as sentences ... they are just gibberish. I killed enough things to get a credit roll, but I have no idea what really happened. Still, the gameplay was fun and I don't require a sensible story for that
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Online players
218
Developer
Aurogon Shanghai
Publisher
Maximum Entertainment
Release
24 Apr 2023
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