Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus Review

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus Review - Gaming with Joy

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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox X & Xbox S
I hope you will enjoy my review of Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (PC). One of my most anticipated metroidvanias of this year set in a visual stunning world inspired by Japanese folklore. Let's see if it was worth the wait! I tried to keep it as short as possible, but hopefully you will still get the full picture. Enjoy!

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@trik6727 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful looking game, I'd love to give this one a try, thanks for another indepth and awesome review

@GamingwithJoy15 2 ай бұрын

Any time, trik! Thanks for watching! ☺

@d00mnoodle24 2 ай бұрын

To avoid spoiling myself i'm not watching this fully yet but was most likely gonna play this anyways. Your opening enthusiasm and the fact that it is platforming heavy makes me super excited about this one! I'm sure i'll love it and maybe it can make my top 10 metroidvania's, who knows? Keep up the great work joy!

@soulsborneseeker 2 ай бұрын

Oh, if challenging platforming is to your tastes, you'll probably love this one :D

@GamingwithJoy15 2 ай бұрын

Thanks d00mnoodle, I'm pretty sure you are going to love it as well! Let me know your thoughts when you had time to play it 😊

@DoubleJumpGR 2 ай бұрын

This game looks stunning, gotta love its artstyle! Its gameplay also feels sharp and responsive! Especially that platforming segment, watching it kinda felt like a mix between Ori and Aeterna Noctis, with a little bit of Hollow Knight's pogo mechanism. Great review!

@GamingwithJoy15 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, are you going to give it a try soon or have you played it already?

@DoubleJumpGR 2 ай бұрын

@@GamingwithJoy15 Haven't tried it so far, but for sure it's on my must-play list for the near future. Currently playing Death's Gambit Afterlife and after that, it's Animal Well's turn!

@GabrielPerez-yg9bi Ай бұрын

Solid game. But I had some issues like: The level design being kind of meh makes you quite often redo a lot of boring long segments. The game misses two things that I praise a lot in modern metroidvanias, map pin and decent teleport system. The way how an area of map is revealed make the exploration kind of bad. Overall it's a fun game, that I quite often need to take a break of it for being annoyed of boring.

@GamingwithJoy15 Ай бұрын

Haha fair enough, it can be a frustrating game indeed, but I'm glad you still call it a solid game. Just keep taking those breaks if you need them, that's totally fine!

@soulsborneseeker 2 ай бұрын

Awesome review! I should have figured you'd breeze through the platforming challenges of this game, your skills in the genre are quite reputable based on other reviews of yours I've seen! I'm curious, what did you think about the last two bosses (without spoilers for anyone who might read this :P)? Did you find them challenging?

@GamingwithJoy15 2 ай бұрын

Haha I just really like platformers, but thanks for the compliment! Oh yeah, the second to last boss fight was a bit frustrating sometimes, but I managed to beat it in one try. The final boss felt like a gauntlet though and I always died at the last phase, after dying for atleast 5 times I decided to get the last attack damage upgrade and after this slight detour I beat it in one try. So it was definitely a challenging fight 😅

@ridleyrage5283 2 ай бұрын

There she is! Dont mind me, again, being amazed how quickly you finish games. Bo, for me, managed to wash out the bad, acrid taste Nine Sols left me with. As of writing this, I'm about 90% through this one, taking a small break from the third stage of an optional dummy-destroying, no-touching-the-floor sidequest that managed to consistently frustrate me. But yeah, fun is the main word on this one, and as you mentioned, the movement was super fun, and imo, unlike another very fun mv about a mushroom that's getting a sequel/prequel coming out soon, movement options werent manic, pretentious needlessly awful strings you have to chain together that feel like a chore to do. What really blew me away visually was the parallax scrolling in the main hub town, where you can see the next layer of terrain you can visit, as you scroll left and right. The bosses for me were also very fun, with somewhat simplistic patterns, albeit making them feel kind of easy for the most part though, there is a certain 5-candle siren boss that reaped more lives from me than I'd like to admit, other than that, it was smooth sailing from there on. The fragile egg sidequest (which is 1000% inspired/cut from that one much more terrible Hollow Knight sidequest with the fragile flower) I really didnt have a problem with, as long as you realize and plan the one route thats going to help you make it through, it took a few attempts sure, but Im having a much harder time with this aforementioned dummy-destroying quest, and I also don't think the ice cavern so far, is the "hardest" area of the game, I quite like the flow of it. Atm, I'm at the third stage of the elevator level where you have to power the switches; those foxhead platforms with the directional crystals are interesting to say the least. But yeah, I agree 100% with you, this game does feel quite short, I dont mind a linear game, I'm going through Gestalt a 4th time now; just because that game feels down to the point and doesnt overstay its welcome, but a game like this with imo some pretty well hidden optional treasure merits an overall bigger size/scope. That said, this to me is so far, one of the best if not the best mv of the year yet; albeit it is veeeery early one, it just seems the most competently made and again, fun, and maybe its the nature of the beast, but because its more of a classic mv and not a soulslike hybrid like Nine Sols, its much less divisive and more easily accessible. Tmv~

@GamingwithJoy15 2 ай бұрын

Hey Ridley, I still haven't played Nine Sols so I can't really share my opinion about it, but I'm glad you are also really enjoying this game! I still have to play Lone Fungus, it's just waiting to be played in my Steam library right now, but hopefully I'm going to give it a try soon. Yeah this game's art style is one of the most impressive achievements I have seen in an indie game, every screen was like a Japanese painting! The hardest area in the game is for me a toss up between the ice cavern and the castle with the elevator, so that's why I said arguably in the review haha I still think BIOMORPH is a better metroidvania, because it had great exploration and a massive interconnected world, but this is my personal favorite as well, I just wished there was more content! Thanks for sharing your in-depth opinion as always!