Review: Feudal Alloy (Steam)
Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.
Pros:
- Feudal Alloy has crisp hand-drawn graphics.
- Controller support.
- Steam achievements.
- Graphics options- Resolution, Fullscreen, and V-Sync.
- Can rebind controls.
- Voiced story cutscenes.
- Metroidvania action platformer.
- 327MB Download size.
- Earn EXP, Level up and get points to put in 1 of 3 skill trees.
- Save/checkpoints.
- Coins- Currency for shops.
- Full inventory and loadout menu.
- Loot chests.
- Hidden routes and rooms.
- Unlock shortcuts.
- Map uncovers as you find the scraps and uncover the land.
- Keys- Find to unlock new areas.
- Combat is a dodge and attack kind of affair.
- Oil- Health.
- Coolant- Temperature goes up as you swing your weapon and attack, Stopping or taking an item will lower it. Its to stop you spamming attacks. It’s a clear dial.
- Many enemy types and variations.
- Tight responsive controls.
- Difficult.
- Big boss encounters.
- Feudal Alloy has a real sense of accomplishment.
- The tense atmosphere as deaths really count and give the game an almost roguelike feel.
Cons:
- UI is hard to understand.
- Difficult.
- Zero guidance or help.
- The map takes some getting used to especially as you work out the aspect ration of it all.
- Slow animations.
- Takes a while to get going.
- Combat can get annoying quick and had instances of enemies “stuck” on you.
- Save/checkpoints are far apart.
- Can exploit the game by farming enemies as they respawn quickly.
- Enemies begin to look the same but have different annoying attacks.
- Hard to look down or around the platforms.
