Recent reviews by Kaelix

Dead Cells is a masterpiece. There are few games that come along and can push someone to go outside their preferred genres. Dead Cells did this for me. I've come to love the rogue-lite genre because of this game.

It is very hard and you will die and die again... but the controls are so smooth. It just feels natural and aside from dying towards the end of a run, the jump back into action doesn't make it as frustrating as I expected.

The possibility to customize the run, as per Devs ("Not cheating - it's how it was meant to be played") - allows you to experiment and get better with different setups (and achievements are still available - within reason).

Just love this game! To support the devs, I have both it on Steam, Switch (Collectors Edition), and MS Store.
And the devs keep pumping new material! Thank you for this labour of love!

Aragami was a very nice game. I really recommend if you are a fan of stealth / ghosting / silent assassin type of games.

I spent 32 hours to complete each of the 13 chapters twice. The first pass, I would aim for No Detection (Yurei Medal = Ghost) and All Enemies Killed (Oni Medal). The second pass, I would aim for No Detection (Yurei Medal = Ghost) and No Enemies Killed (Kami Medal = Pacifist).

Some maps were harder than others but usually the second pass took around 15-20 minutes while the first pass would be always over an hour.

The sound is nice. The graphics are nice but you will find issues here and there. Honestly, I was enjoying the game too much to care for the small issues. I had a few occasions where I died due to the way the "Shadow Leap" is limited in distance but it wasn't frustrating.

I recommend focusing on the "bird" abilities first as it will give you the ability to locate all scrolls in a map. This will make it easier to unlock the rest of the skills faster. I would usually end up getting the scrolls on the first pass.

I got all the achievements.
It will be easy if you do both passes. Some of the situational achievements, I had to go look for how to force trigger them. Two example are the last two I got: God Eater and Dishonored.
I restarted the game after finishing both passes and found an area with 3 guards close by to draw and then swallow with Shinen (which I didn't use much of the game). As for the Dishonored achievement, I had never died while performing a stealth kill during the rest of the game, so I had to force the situation on the same first level. :)

All in all this will go into my best games category. Really good fun. :)

The story was beautiful and the game play was just the right balance between easy and hard so that I didn't feel frustrated on the hard parts. Recommended for those that like platformers with very nice artwork and sound. Although, if you are looking for a hardcore die 1000x times game, this is not it. Loved it!