Incredible game if you like metroidvanias this is perfect game to play!

You play as two characters which you choose to switch out with ease. One goes down? You have chance to resurrect and/or have second chance with 2nd character!

The combat flows nicely! Bow vs Swordsman

Havnt finished game yet but loving slaughtering enemies and upgrading/buying items such as map features.

9/10

Would rate 10/10 but did have few issues with controller from time to time with aiming locking up at times but this was VERY RARE.

After Earth was destroyed by a virus and mutant hordes, the last humans escaped to a space ark, hoping to colonize a new planet. However, a mutant invasion of the ark led to disaster. Now, 400 years later, small groups of survivors are fighting for their lives on the remains of the once-great ark. Humanity's last hope became genetically modified soldiers, created to fight the monsters.

Anima Flux is a sci-fi metroidvania game with two main protagonists: Roy, the swordsman, and Eileen, the archer. What makes this game unique is the ability to play solo with an AI partner or in co-op mode with a friend.

The game features excellent visuals with atmospheric locations that perfectly complement the gameplay, along with cutscenes that are visually reminiscent of 90s science fiction-themed cartoons. You can switch between characters, and if your current character loses all health points, control is automatically transferred to the other character. Anima Flux is a challenging game, with dynamic battles and tough opponents.

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I'm not even sure how to start this review. Sure I've only got 30 mins into the game and beat the second boss on the roof tops. But here goes.

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I can't even begin to remember a time where I needed to rebind almost all the controls of a game just to start. It's baffling to look at the default layout and think anything feels sorted out correctly.
Then going on to the movement/animation/fluidity of the game, there just something so jank with it all.

Sure you can tell the character are like these animated cut-outs, but the issue is things feel... off. Like everything is a recorded cut-scene?? It's like Thief 2016 where everything isn't actually something you're doing, but a cut-scene that you've activated. I don't know how to put it. And because you have to finish out the animation there's a hurkey-jerky-ness to things.
Climbing, attacking, elevators, lifts.

These were my instant opening impressions on starting the game, and...it does not improve.

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Gameplay/Combat: As mentioned there's a jank to combat that just doesn't feel right. Your character locked in place with this bizarre built in dodge/dash. Like you have to attack and <> to activate it. Just a really weird DEV decision, like why not just have it on a dedicated button, but keep it's cool-down.

I'm not certain on the number, but I'm pretty certain the sword does 30-50% less damage than the bow.
"Huh...? We're really going the the inverse of the risk reward system? More danger close up = less damage?"
I nearly died to 2-3 scorpions because his 3 hit combo isn't A) fast enough B) do enough damage to kill them.

I saw this in someone else's review but ill repeat it. Why the fakk are we buying health pots IN THE HOME BASE?
It's reasonable to think, okay sure you have to scavenge when you're in the field, but at home? Really?? You're the tyrannical overlords with an Iron Fist over the world and were struggling to afford band-aids and neosporin in the command center?
Buying the map function? Paying to open doors, or elevators? I'm so confused... do I have to pay to lock the door in the bathroom?
Are there children who will be asking for an allowance?

Already I can smell there's an "economy" in here that isn't well though out.


Story/Characters: Wow.... it's been a while since Ive had a cold water splash like this, in the rude awakening of (unexplained at the outset) unlikable characters. Maybe this is explained later, but damm, there was an instant thought of
"Why are YOU so fakking rude?" and "Why are YOU just such a lone wolf stereotype?"
>>Ugh...just when you think you're out...they pull you back in. *hacks a loogie into a spittoon*<<

It opens with a the classic Research Monsters have escaped the facility premise, but there's no prelude/preamble.
No gentle nudge of what's happening. It's just
"GOGOGO! MONSTERS HAVE ESCAPED! DONT ASK QUESTIONS! JUST KEEP MOVING AND KILL THEM, AND WE HOPE YOU DONT NOTICE WERE NOT SAYING ANYTHING"

Un-Engaging and uninviting.


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I dunno mate there's something that really ain't clicking with me. I'm fairly certain it's this game as a whole, but I did just come off playing Hollow Knight. And maybe this is just such a step down I can't give this game a fair shake, but damn this game just isn't it.