CLOSING: I'm sure you can get something like double the time I spent out of this game, but I'd never want to do so. This looks good to a viewer, but when you're playing, it just feels like the controls are being yanked from your hand. If you hit a wall or an enemy, you also slide along that wall for a period of time. When you get hit, the whole screen stops moving for a fraction of a second and you get flung in a seemingly random direction. Combat isn't just repetitive and time-consuming, it's also frustrating. Most of the game you'll be mashing a single button to shoot, just because they found it necessary to give your gun a 3-shot burst if you don't do that. A shotgun you get halfway through has a preposterous cooldown, which is awful when it's used for several repetitive puzzles. It's laid out like a twin-stick shooter, but the weapons at your disposal either don't feel remotely satisfying to use, taking far too many shots to kill, or are just impractical for combat. This also exacerbated what I feel was the absolute biggest problem: the shooting. Several "boss fights" were nothing more than waves of common enemies thrown at you, which was disappointing. The real boss fights, while good when present, were far too scarce. That's poor level design, even if I'm just bad at puzzles.
#Owlboy ending explained how to
I did end up progressing, but from what I could tell, nothing prior taught you how to do it, and the solution was not even slightly in-line with anything shown before. I tried to leave the area, but found the deadly moving blocks would kill you no matter what timing you used, so all I could do was try the screw again. There was a terminal window in the room, but all it said was a bunch of vague stuff about the story. I'd never seen anything like it prior, and couldn't figure out the solution. Case-in-point, there was a section where you pass some deadly moving blocks into a room with a giant screw blocking your path. The level design isn't particularly complex or elegant. It didn't feel like Metroid either I never felt lost, I never felt I had to explore much more than one or two screens over to find my next path to progress. However, I never got into a flow like you might in a Zelda dungeon, where you start being unable to do very little to progress and by the end, can do everything in it. There's some rudimentary puzzle solving, stealth sections, and shooting enemies, standard stuff.
It is more of an exploration-based game like Zelda or Metroid, but the only real exploration is done in the game's dungeons. In Owlboy you can fly indefinitely without consequence, which must have posed many problems for level designers trying to make a challenging 2D "platformer". The ability to fly is nice, though it ultimately may have done the game more harm than good. The first couple of hours were enjoyable, even if largely scripted. GAMEPLAY: This is where Owlboy just tanked for me. There was a surprising amount of the screen going a single colour (white or red) due to shooting an enemy or something, and I found that pretty jarring. You have options to change parts of the UI, which is appreciated. Menus worked alright, UI was fairly minimal and unintrusive. Characters can emote, and Otus is a precious cinnamon bun, but after the 50th time he gets spooked or looks dead-eyed you kinda wish there were more things they could do. Animations are also nice, though there are unfortunately not many of them to see. PRESENTATION: Lots of wonderful, stunning pixel art that I appreciate thoroughly. You have some options for graphical settings, though not many. There were a couple of framerate hiccups that frankly shouldn't have been there considering the style of game, but it wasn't anything harmful to the experience. This happened a couple of times, and may have something to do with using a second monitor.
What I'm certain it did was minimize itself at points without warning, despite me only using a 360 controller. George Weidman (Super Bunnyhop on Youtube) described this game best: "I love you, but sometimes you're a piece of **** TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE: I believe the game at on point exited to desktop suddenly without warning. It was alright, but highly disappointing. I did not 100% it, though I did do some of the extra content. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.Īlright, I just beat Owlboy after 7 hours of play (too much of which was cutscenes for my taste).
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