Beautiful, with great potential, but some very frustrating niggles and jank that really spoiled my playthrough after about the six hour mark where the game asked more of me but couldn't deliver me the precision I needed. Wonderful exploration and puzzle design, but yeah, the frustration got the better of me. Very much a "your mileage may vary" title. Definitely one to keep an eye on, as it's doing many things well, but the FEEL of the game isn't always one of them.

I am. I've been playing Somber Echoes because I was really enjoying it, but my enjoyment has dwindled exponentially over the last couple hours of play so I've written some feedback for the devs and put it aside. Gonna start on Magnolia now.

@@demajen OK, no worries, I didn't play Ender Magnolia early access version, but did watch your video... compared to Ender Lilies to me this game feels a lot more polished, visuals, effects, audio and movement all feel better, can't say about difficulty yet, but now there are options to adjust it, which is great for slow and clumsy people like me at least.

BODDDYYYYYYY~! Yeah, I definitely want to play it as I mostly did enjoy the demo, but the loot system puts me off. Doubt I'll get the "three days advanced access" pre-purchase for an extra £5 though. Depends how slow a month March is, I guess!

@@demajen The only thing that has really confused me about the game is why wait until after the first boss to allow "easy mode" to be selected? Most people that really need it will bounce off the first boss and give up I'd think... Either way the only thing on my list for march is assassins creed and I'm not buying that in march, but I don't keep a good release list.

Yup! Decent but not mind-blowing. Definitely something I want to play, but maybe not for full price - depending ON the price, which I haven't actually looked up xD

60 bucks. 70 for digital deluxe with new exclusive weapon and armor gears.

The only place I can think of that you might be referring to is in the vertical shaft with the recharge station in the top right, after going through the purple gate that Inayah has locked. The room with the little bobbing robots that fire stuff at you that destroys purple blocks. You need to get the robots to shoot at you when you're stood next to a block then slide/jump out of its way. :) If it's not that room, can you show me where you're at and I can try and help!

I can recommend "Devil Within: Satgat" if you like your souls-like metroidvanias. It's quite linear, and realistically is more "Metroidvania-Like" but I enjoyed it a lot.

I thiiiink that's behind a breakable wall to the left of that entrance? And you activate a console which opens up a ledge to stand on and electrify the node?

@ wow! Yes it is. Look at you my man. Impressive. You must really know this map well. I broke the wall completely by accident and reached it. Thank you so much my man!

Looking forward to it. You always go into way more detail than I do, in half the time :D (One of the many reasons I scoff at the notion people have that I am a "journalist". xD)

Level 4 keycard* sorry, not keyboard

Hi! So from the very first area (the shopping mall) go through the blue shutter (which you should have opened by now) and up into the hospital. (The blue shutter door is just up and right from the literal square you start the game in, in case you've forgotten!) From there, do all the story stuff the game tells you to do, then head through the MANY ROBOTS corridor and down-right in the next big room (there's only one way you can really go). This will lead you to the Level 4 Keycard.

​@@demajendude you're a lifesaver thanks so much! Hate you didnt enjoy it that much but to each their own. I'm a huge ladybug fan (mainly for their extraordinary pixel art work) so I always end up loving every game they release.

@@dustylee9234 The art is fantastic. I really REALLY loved that pixel shader they used that made the edges of your character and the enemies glow with the ambient light. That was SUPER cool.

The Greenhouse Entrance foxed me for a while too, because the game didn't mark the exit from the zone on the map properly. It's in Ice Caves West, at the left end of the corridor at the top of the area. That transition is actually one of the things that I spoke negatively about it my review as it was an unecssary frustration. I kinda hoped they'd fixed it by now, but seems not.

@@demajen I’ll check out your review for sure. Sounds like you put a lot of thought into this. Much appreciated! Definitely earned a sub from me. While I’m liking the game - combat is coming together better now that I have half or more ability upgrades - and clearly there’s a lot of love put into the map design, the biggest issue for me is trying to understand the map, the areas seem subdivided into smaller sections that you can’t see in the overall map, and routes don’t seem completely logical, as in if I look at the overall map I would expect to come out at X spot but come out somewhere else. Perhaps it’s me and I’m not reading it right but sometimes I’m not sure what the map is trying to tell me exactly. That said, hope this doesn’t come out as bashing the game. Enjoying it for sure and can tell the love put into it. Has a Metroid or Matterfall feel. Read somewhere the devs spent five years working. Good for them. Quality addition to the genre. Hope they earned investment back.

Absolutely well deserved! I wish you all the success on the launch! ❤️

Good job and congrats on the game. It's great! I've nearly completed it and am really enjoying it!

100% agreed. It was such a disappointing experience but it was so PRETTY. Style over substance, alas.

Yeah, visually I suspect this is the comparison people are gonna make. It’s super fun and feels great to play though.

@@demajen Thank you for pointing that out as I felt Goo Keeper was janky and not very fun making me very hesitant on trying this one. I may give it a go now.

Aaaaah I can clarify that! The red/blue doors alternate using the Shutter Control switch over the right side of zone 3. I’ll add a note to make that clearer. Apologies.

@@jakeperkins862 hi again! I’ve updated the map to v1.3 and added some stuff about the doors on. Hope that makes it more helpful :)

Hi, yes the room in The Court was moved in patch....errr.... I want to say 1.4. This has been updated on the static maps but, I can't update the video itself. www.demajen.co.uk/Voidwrought has the latest version of the map :)

@demajen thank you!!!

Hahaha well the game is rather short 😅

@@demajen anyway, I already figured based on your previous videos that this game ain't for me. I'm a sucker for pixel art, but the game feels rather generic and underwhelming, and your views made me sure I'm going to get this game eventually when it is discounted if at all.

There’s a demo to try if you wanna see how it actually feels for yourself, but yeah, it’s definitely a sale title in my opinion. I’ve sold a handful of maps for it, though, so I made my money back 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

@@demajen nah, I don't need a demo, TBH that strange random character design style is not my thing, I know Castlevania SotN had similar thing going so they probably took it as is. But anyway, I got Nine Sols from Steam winter sale thanks to your videos, completed it yesterday with help of your maps, with good ending (have to send Steam points again if nothing else).

It released on switch

@@IxAhmadxI-dv6nm i am guessing digital only? Thanks

Really hope it will be on PS4/5 ...

​@@ShadowCthulhuwell, since all 3 of Team Ladybug's other switch games eventually got physical releases, if you want to hold out for a physical I'm certain one will release eventually.

@@dustylee9234 I know about Record of Lodoss, I wil have to look at their other games. That is true it is usually just a matter of time.

Same! You know where the last three demons are? Starts with what looks like a shiisa(temple dog)

@lathrios #23 is right at the start of Phoenix Gardens in the small room left of the 2x2 room. #24 is in the right 2x2 room in the Church Base place. There's someone standing near the door in a disguise. #25 is in the prison cell room where you have to break out of. Again, an enemy in disguise. If those aren't the ones you mean, let me know!

Do you know how to get the level 4 door keyboard? I've been stuck trying to get to the hospital ruins in cosmo city for like a day now lol. I've talked to everyone and looked everywhere I can think of so I'm super stuck. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Smack bang in the middle of the Malthus Factory, just left of the save room that links to City Centre.

Iirc (and it’s been a loooong time) you have to explore both sides of the zone to unblock the way down the middle. So make sure you’ve hit switches/pulled levers on both sides.

@demajen thank you very much 😊