- September 15, 2022
- Troglobytes Games
- 10h median play time
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami has unique gameplay elements with a great story and voice acting but is incredibly difficult due to hit-detection issues and repetitive actions during your playthrough.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami has unique gameplay elements with a great story and voice acting but is incredibly difficult due to hit-detection issues and repetitive actions during your playthrough.
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About Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is a single player hack and slash game with fantasy, post-apocalyptic and science fiction themes. It was developed by Troglobytes Games and was released on September 15, 2022. It received neutral reviews from both critics and players.
Walk the dark path of a blind cyber-samurai in this action platformer filled with robotic Japanese folktales. Embark with Yami on a journey of revenge and face the dangers of a mysterious Edo period, discovering a forgotten past and unveiling its lost mechanical lore.
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- Unique and interesting concept of using three senses (sound, smell, heat) to navigate, detect enemies, and engage in combat, creating a distinctive gameplay mechanic centered around the protagonist's blindness.
- Atmospheric and well-crafted setting that combines cyberpunk with feudal Japanese folklore, supported by excellent graphics, art design, and a compelling story with thoughtful narration and voice acting.
- Challenging and methodical combat system emphasizing timing, stamina management, and enemy pattern recognition, with boss fights that test mastery of mechanics and provide a sense of progression through skill and upgrades.
- Game suffers from clunky and stiff controls, especially in movement and platforming, including awkward ledge climbing mechanics and imprecise hit detection that detract from gameplay fluidity.
- Repetitive combat and level design with a lack of enemy variety and slow-paced, drawn-out encounters that often feel tedious, combined with frequent backtracking and uninspired puzzles.
- Numerous technical issues such as bugs, crashes, unfair difficulty spikes, and poorly implemented QTE sequences diminish player experience; the sensory mechanic can be cumbersome due to needing to pause frequently to switch modes.
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54 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay of Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is centered on a unique sensory mechanic that offers an ambitious, atmospheric experience but is often criticized for slow pacing, repetitive combat, and underused sensor functions. While its challenging combat and innovative concepts are praised by some, issues like a restrictive stamina system, frustrating ledge mechanics, and uneven execution hinder the overall flow and enjoyment. Fans of difficult, unconventional action games may find its dark, cyberpunk Edo setting and sensory approach rewarding despite these flaws.
“Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is an ambitious and atmospheric action-adventure that sets itself apart through both its thematic fusion and its mechanical identity.”
“Rather than presenting this world through conventional visual clarity, the game commits fully to its central idea: the protagonist is blind, and perception itself becomes a mechanic rather than a passive assumption.”
“For players willing to engage with its demanding mechanics and unconventional approach to perception, it offers a distinctive journey through a grim, cybernetic mythos.”
“As a hack and slash game, the stamina bar is the worst mechanic constantly breaking combat flow.”
“The combat mechanic of the game is overall very repetitive, but the boss fights are even more so, because they’re designed so that you can place only a couple of hits before a long sequence of enemies spawning follows or some other event that makes the boss invulnerable. To defeat a boss you must correctly perform many cycles of a couple of hits on the boss followed by several minutes of killing enemies or continuously dodging attacks.”
“There’s a skill system that seems powerful, but if you don’t max it out, most enemies are too tanky and ignore most skills (no stun, no parry possibility on many, too many unblockable attacks), so you stick to basic hacking and slashing. The stamina system is tight like in Dark Souls, reducing gameplay to getting a couple of hits in, then falling back and repeating.”
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Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is a hack and slash game with fantasy, post-apocalyptic and science fiction themes. Common tags for Blind Fate: Edo no Yami include indie, exploration, 2.5d, cyberpunk, souls-like and others.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.
On average players spend around 10 hours playing Blind Fate: Edo no Yami.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami was released on September 15, 2022.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami was developed by Troglobytes Games.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami has received neutral reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked Blind Fate: Edo no Yami for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is a single player game.
Similar games include They Always Run, Sands of Aura, AWAKEN - Astral Blade, Eastern Exorcist, Trinity Fusion and others.