The sound effects are nothing special, but they have enough quality to convey the weight of a heavy weapon hitting something for example. Lost Ruins overall sound design is what you’d expect from a pixel indie game. There are other sexually suggestive nuances spread throughout the game but it all feels much more comical than anything else. The most notable graphic prowess in Lost Ruins comes in the form of huge bosses that have very well defined sprites and excellently animated female “bouncy bits,” if you catch my drift. It’s kind of a mixed bag at some points, but it’s well done enough, especially when you consider the low-budgeted indie nature of the game. The characters are mostly rendered with very simple pixel art, and they are also crudely animated with few exceptions. Sometimes it can get a bit confusing discerning traps from harmless background scenery, but nothing that gets in the way too much. The graphics are mostly pleasing to the eyes but a bit on the pixelated side. Lost Ruins is entirely crafted using pixels with the exception of some CG art depicting the characters when they talk. There’s enough exploration and platforming to be had here, and the areas are varied enough for a game such as this one. Even then, the game is still a fun little romp. The same can’t be said about bosses as many of them are easily defeated. This isn’t much of a hindrance to progression as it’s irritating since there are a lot of checkpoints throughout the map. It’s commonplace to enter an area, take a hit from an enemy that inflicts some life-draining debuff, and then have a flying enemy that you didn’t see coming land the final blow. This adds an unnecessary layer of tedium, as this could be simply resolved by just adding slots where you could save your builds and a simple shortcut button to swap between loadouts as necessary.Īnother point of contention in Lost Ruins is its lack of balance in regards to its combat. The game uses an archaic item management system which consists of opening a menu and swapping equipped items one by one. If you’re someone like me, you’ll want to experiment with builds as much as possible, but that’s very cumbersome to do. The sheer amount of weapons, spells and equipment available enables the player to approach combat as they see fit you can make a variety of combat builds focusing on spell casting, debuff infliction, raw physical damage or even mix things a bit. You can, however, enhance your HP or MP among other stats this is done by equipping a piece of armor or an artifact in the appropriate slot. There’s no basic attribute enhancements since the game doesn’t use a character leveling system. The player can make use of two slots for weapons and two more for spells. There is no dash or run button or any other manner of maneuvering besides a simple jump and an evading roll. The Recommended difficulty is, well, recommendable since harder modes will lock out some gameplay features and are best reserved for a second or third run.ĭifferently from most traditional metroidvanias, the game’s pacing is deliberately slow. Right off the bat, players can choose between five different types of difficulty. GameplayĪt first glance, Lost Ruins plays like your typical 2D metroidvania with players navigating through a 2D side scrolling environment while battling enemies, collecting items and solving some simple puzzles to advance. Even then, it’s not enough to hold my attention. There are a couple of different endings and even a bonus mode that expands on the game’s lore and its characters. Regardless, the story is pretty barebones with dialogues that try and fail to be funny or interesting. Then, there are the so-called followers of the Dark Lady which at first glance are just other lost schoolgirls but with some loose screws. Other NPCs will ask for the heroine’s assistance which will trigger some more dialogues. This is a very overused trope in anime known as “ isekai.” After wandering for a bit, the protagonist encounters a witch that informs the girl that she was summoned by some kind of cult to serve as sacrifice for the revival of the “Dark Lady.” The heroine’s only chance at surviving – and possibly getting back to her own world – is to defeat the members of this supposed cult so the spell can be undone.Īlong her journey the nameless girl will encounter all sorts of messages left behind by other not so fortunate schoolgirls that give a bit more of insight on what kind of mess she got herself into. Lost Ruins story begins when an amnesiac schoolgirl awakens inside a dungeon located in what appears to be another world.
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