the screen should be a bit bigger also i opened up my map and closed out quickly and then the character just disappeared
Reviews for "Forgotten Dungeon"
HapPie responds:
Try enabling fullscreen from right-click menu. And I never encountered that bug, weird.
its quite a nice game asthetically but isnt too unique, its solid but i defintely wouldn't see me buying it in its current state, but defintely has a lot of potential
Medals don't work, got softlocked at the end because I died at the spikes on the east side (door locked with lever on the other side). Too dark to see the spiders coming at you.
I think there are some good ideas here but the execution is flawed.
Here's my take:
+The idea of the protagonist being thrown into an environment without a lot of context and leaving it up to the player to figure out exactly what is going on is compelling
+The Game Boy UI is neat
+The audio in the dungeon is somewhat effective gives a sense of unease
+The overall gameplay is fun
-The controls are a little rough at first on the PC
-The mobile mode on my phone (iPhone 13 Mini) is cumbersome to use, even with FireFox (specifically, I cannot attack and move at the same time and the game itself is rather small)
-The music and audio overall is too loud
-There are no sound FX cues for things like player attacks, monster attacks, damage (either to monsters or the player), picking up items, flipping levers, etc.
-The Game Boy UI takes up too much space and it makes it hard to see the game without going to full screen. (I suggest making the Game Boy UI a toggleable option for PC and mobile and, specifically for mobile mode, making the buttons outlined and transparent below the screen)
-It's not always clear what items can be picked up or not
-I'm not entirely sure about this but there may be a bug with the level design where the lever with the spikes next to it, once you flip it, closes the door so that when you die and respawn at the beginning you can no longer access that area because the only door in is blocked.
I think once the issues are tweaked this game would be really cool to come back to. :)
I liked the concept of revising an already looted dungeon making the gameplay a little tedious but some parts were just a little annoying. For example after flipping one of the switches, i died and respawned back at the centre but then i was locked out. Searched for the third key part only to read the comments to find out there isn't one! and the enemies you fight aren't all that exciting. I also thought the skull on the map was supposed to be a boss battle so I left it for last only to realise it was more like an introduction which should have been told to us before we start searching. Screen was also way too small and the other relics you collect aren't very interesting or relevant.