Steel Sword Story

“Visuals can get kinda fuzzy-looking on bigger monitors.”

“Graphics and sound I can do without, but 'cheap' difficulty and unresponsive controls are big turnoffs for me, plus a bunch of minor annoyances.”

“Has some amateurish aesthetic qualities.”

“The gameplay itself on the harder difficulty shows its teeth fairly early, roughing you up a good bit as you are learning the controls and getting used to them.”

“The gameplay, enemies, and level design are all reasonably well done but you won’t come across anything new or innovative.”

“It's a quite precise description of what you can expect gameplay-wise.”

“The game doesn't have a high price tag, so you get what you pay for here - a basic platformer hack and slash with a basic fantasy story and alright music.”

“I'm gonna be upfront with this game's flaws: it has pervasive slowdown issues-- one level in particular near the end of the game has it so bad that it plays at a quarter speed throughout its entire duration; the game took me around two hours to beat on the highest difficulty (though my first playthrough was actually 3 hours thanks to me accidentally resetting my save file before the final boss with the new game option on the main menu being labeled as 'start'); the soundtrack is forgettable and the story and characters are a non-factor.”

“Animations and music was passable.”

“The game is in dire need of optimization, and likely won't provide veteran action-adventure fans with anything more than a hyperactive slice-and-dicer.”

“For either action or platforming (or both combined) games that are trying to be difficult through technical performance, this is a grave issue.”

“The game is in severe need of optimization.”