It’s often worth killing all monsters in each room just to see if it opens a gateway or discloses something else. The dungeon design is incredibly dense with numerous secrets to discover around almost every corner, fake walls, hidden abilities, various keys, invisible treasure chests, and so on.
criterium for a metroidvania, the Igavania games are notorious for how easy it is to cheese difficulty, it does lessen somewhat the enthusiasm for boss fights.īut the game scores in the category most important for any metroidvania, and it scores big time there. Halfway into the game (or even earlier) the bosses will become complete pushovers utterly getting annihilated by you. This is in theory a great system and worked really well in Rogue Legacy as its random castle generation could lead to some really tricky situations but here it somewhat trivializes difficulty. What it does have is a system similar to Rogue Legacy where dying allows you to spent your well-earned money on upgrades so that upon respawning you’re stronger than before. Some people have used the roguelike moniker when talking about the game which initially confused me as there’s nothing roguelike about it.
You can also unlock 2 more characters later on with their own abilities. Later on, you will find an item/ability to switch on the spot but honestly, it never bothered me to go back to a campfire to switch as the game is so well designed that it usually has a campfire nearby if you need one. Astalon has that as well but added character switching that you can do early on in the game at campfires, which you find generously strewn throughout the tower you explore. Usually, I’m not too fond of games where you have to switch characters to progress, I prefer the whole unlock-ability gameplay loop to do that. Visually the game is a love letter to NES games although while it looks like a NES game it has a modern heart beating inside it. It’s by Matt Kap (who previously did Castle in Darkness, a masocore metroidvania-ish platformer) and some others he teamed up with. I didn’t have Astalon on the radar until some people on the Metroidvania Review Discord were starting to talk about it so I checked it out and fell instantly in love.
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