Marginalia Hero

This game just makes me smile and grin because it’s so funny and awkward, yet so simple and addicting. It’s not P2W and I love it, it’s all about skill and timing, you soon get used to it, sometimes it’ll feel like it’s cheated you but when you finally beat that next level you feel so accomplished with yourself because you know it was hard. I love this gameplay and the funny art style, I just hope that I can make my character in armor, that’s the only thing I want, armor! Like, just for looks, wearing chainmail because it’s cool!

Pre-ordered it as soon as I saw it listed. What really drew me in was the 12th century Medieval art style. The gameplay is fun too, but distracts a bit from the visuals. Having a ring showing the enemies hit points in the center with a sword representing your attacks moving throughout the ring. The goal is to successfully hit the targets plotted on the ring. Certain levels become quite the challenge, like level 40. You’ll get the hang of things really quickly if you understand how each mechanic works. Here are some suggestions, different sound effects for different types of weapons and their materials. Centering the player character and the enemy on either side of the ring instead of below it, so we are able to look at the characters interacting better. Better timed animations. Currently, rapid succession attacks don’t work very well visually. The second attack doesn’t show up if you tap quickly to match the targets movement. All in all, very fun and entertaining little game. Thanks a bunch for making it. I’ve always dreamed of a game making use of this style of art. Really scratches that itch.

Really a pretty and fun game. The ring fighting is made enjoyable by all the mechanics that weapons, shields, and familiars (or whatever you call the animals) add. The game starts to get tedious after level 35 or so because the bosses become much more difficult than the regular enemies. So every five levels you have to go back and grind for coins. You use these coins to buy (blindly - you can’t see their effects) equipment in the hope that it will help you pass the boss. Of course this is the game’s freemium engine, as you are exposed to the same horrible game ads over and over (also to multiply the items you occasionally win). I was really upset to save coins to buy a familiar that “just eats cookies” rather than actually help me. So with these grindy/freemium elements the game becomes tedious. I am at level 65 but will give up here...

The art style is a main selling point of this game, especially for medieval literature nerds. Gameplay is fun, but repetitive. The challenge will come from doing harder variations of the same task, which is to press the screen to hit stationary, moving and/or disappearing targets using a sword that swings round in a circle. Buy weapons, shields and companion animals using the in-game currency (obtained from accurate hits and some wins) to progress. The game has a moderate to high amount of ads and can be frustrating when buggy. Coins, the in-game currency, can be hard to come by and right now, there seem to be bugs that prevent the companion that spawns coins while you play from working properly at all times. I’ve taken off a star for the bugs, random ads and repetitiveness of the gameplay, in that order.

I got this game when it was first released. I really enjoyed playing it the first night and played it throughout the next school day. I soon reached a problem, though. I ended up getting to a really hard boss (unreasonably hard) and I quickly ran out of power ups. I think it would be a good idea to make it so you are able to go back to the last boss or heroic challenge and still be able to say, earn one or 2 power ups again. It’s really tedious to have to grind for 60 coins just to buy one power up and lose it after one mistake on a boss. The boss I am talking about is at level 35, by the way. I think this game has a really nice art style and concept but I don’t like getting this frustrated over a game. It is boring to have to do the same boss over and over again.