Moonlighter

“I found the story resolution a bit jarring and empty considering the build-up.”

“The story and characters are flat and underdeveloped, with far less to them each chapter and a terrible twist ending.”

“The story is basically nonexistent for most of the game, but it's enough to give your character a reason to keep going.”

“The art style is...different; while the pixel art characters are generally appreciated, the character portraits feel bland and ugly, reflecting a lack of effort in that area.”

“The game has no resolutions matching my aspect ratio, except one which makes graphics blurry and texts unreadable; it is so low resolution.”

“Although the visuals are polished at first, the core loop quickly becomes repetitive and shallow, and there are some graphic glitches like floor tile visuals glitching out and covering pitfalls.”

“Once the music is muted out of necessity to keep my eardrums from bleeding, there's no relaxing atmosphere and so the game becomes pure annoyance and frustration.”

“The music is also the same, just boring tracks that repeat over and over again for the entire game.”

“The soundtrack gets repetitive - it needs more variety, especially the one used for dungeons.”

“Progression is way too grindy and RNG-based; you might need to go through the same dungeon for the tenth time to get rare materials and unlock a flat 100+ increase, which becomes instantly useless in the next dungeon.”

“Upgrading gear is tedious because two very common recipe materials only drop by chance from their relatively rare respective singular enemy.”

“The in-game economy forces grinding the same boring encounters repeatedly to afford enough resources that barely fit in your inventory, both sold for small amounts of money and used for egregiously expensive crafting upgrades.”

“One-and-done replayability: beyond hunting for achievements, there is virtually no reason to play through it a second time.”

“There is no replay value whatsoever.”

“Seriously, and the bosses not respawning doesn't add a sense of completion, it adds a sense of 'it's got no replay value.' Only your current dungeon does, so if you want this to be your first game then you need to make this as good as possible, otherwise your company is just gonna join the other dead indie companies. If you want to claim the game is difficult and replayable then add some end game content, new game plus that flips your difficulty to the hardest possible, and allow for more complexity in items other than sell and forge, cause there's about a million ways you could improve this thing yet I didn't see any real improvements to the gameplay, just bug fixes and tasteless additions. Get serious and I'll take it all back, change my review to positive, and hopefully more people will play it and make you more known. But don't stop there, and don't lose your players or there goes your money. I'm not saying change the story, just make it replayable in a sense of being wanted to be replayable, cause at this point, everyone will play it once then be done.”

“The entire game is plagued by numerous bugs: visual glitches with prices, chests, item icons, and the game freezing when buying shortcuts, forcing a forced closure.”

“The controller mapping is seriously broken and buggy, with rebind issues still unfixed seven years after release, which is unacceptable in modern games.”

“Frequent bugs and crashes cause the game to freeze randomly, sometimes trapping the player in rooms with immortal enemies, requiring quitting or restarting the dungeon.”

“Once the music is muted out of necessity to keep my eardrums from bleeding, there's no relaxing atmosphere and so the game becomes pure annoyance and frustration.”

“Sound's also pretty good, though the soundscape is a bit limited; more ambience in the dungeons and more enemy sounds would help the game a lot in building the atmosphere which is heavily carried by the graphics.”

“The bosses and enemies went basically unexplained, and the mystery of the dungeons fell off a cliff; most of the NPCs within the town were bland, there was a complete lack of character development in the silent protagonist that went at odds against the dialogue of the few NPCs that grew, and the general pacing was entirely skewed towards the beginning and end, with no substantial content in between, creating a jarring atmosphere.”

“Badly optimized keyboard controls, no mouse support, only play if you have a controller.”

“The key mapping for keyboard is insanely unintuitive. Controller is recommended, ok so I use the controller... it disconnects from the game (but stays connected to Steam and everything else) once every several minutes, and the combat is way clunkier on the controller, there's animation delay for every swing... so what even is it optimized for?”

“- Atrocious performance for a 2D game with the simplest mechanics possible, loading into a new location takes forever.”

“The game constantly stops you early on so you can watch the slowest NPC walk across the screen or listen to them ramble on about the standard boring story.”

“If you must explain your game mechanics, stop putting it in your boring story I don't care about!”

“Boring storytelling, oh yeah game needs to level up here, it was just pointless, might as well just make the game silent if you ask me.”

“I'm no stranger to grinding difficult games, but here there is no character development, the town and its people are irrelevant, and the overall experience is just repeat, repeat, repeat, with basically no payoff.”

“The bosses and enemies went basically unexplained, and the mystery of the dungeons fell off a cliff, most of the NPCs within the town were bland, there was a complete lack of character development in the silent protagonist that went at odds against the dialogue of the few NPCs that grew, and the general pacing was entirely skewed towards the beginning and end, with no substantial content in between, creating a jarring atmosphere.”

“There's barely any story or character development or anything of that nature, there are no puzzles, there's no world to explore, and there are only 5 simple bosses in the whole game.”

“The recent update is trash made to shove ads in our faces every time we play the game.”

“Update: first update in years and it's to add advertisements to the game!”

“I own the game now, this means you already made money off of me so stop spreading advertisement as a bonus!!!”