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Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
Phoenotopia: Awakening is a adventure, action and platformer game
developed by Cape Cosmic
and published by Cape Cosmic and Flyhigh Works.
Released on January 21st 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
It has received 2,517 reviews of which 2,091 were positive and 426 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.96€ on Gamivo.
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- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
- Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 1GB+
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- OS: Mac OS X
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 1GB+
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an extremely dense and particular game with a fantastic soundtrack. rewarding for folks who like to dig and dig and dig into something. the pacing is all over the place and the ending is a bit disappointing no matter when you get to it, so don't worry about burning out on the game chasing down every sidequest; all of that's the best stuff. high li'l stinker opportunity in this game. lots of places you can sneak into a little bit early once you learn the edges of the platforming and get some of the mid-game tools, but enough smart guardrails to prevent you from soft-locking yourself if you get too naughty. the combat prioritizes defensive play but still gives you a lot of wiggle room once you get a handle on the technical movement. very easy for a single hit to start snowballing, and also very enjoyable to learn how to prevent that from happening and recover when it does. for most boss fights i had a really satisfying progression of getting my ass beat at the start, catching my bearings just long enough to recover, and then getting it together and starting to recognize my safe spots just in time to scrape together a win. try out the demo, get to a boss fight. if you hate it, let yourself be filtered and save some time since it will only demand more from you after that. if you like it, you'll have a good 30 to 50 hours ahead of you to feast on.
Everything in this game is great from exploration, art, animations and even humor. But the combat system is ass. You cannot interrupt attack animation to jump, yet your jump attack can get interrupted from landing. So you get the worst of both worlds with this design. Top it off with strong enemy attacks making you bounce around the screen like a table tennis ball into more attacks or environmental hazards. Any encounter with more than two enemies is annoying to deal with because of how stiff the character controls are. The game offers you difficulty adjustment options but none of them fix the issues I mentioned. It was purely everything else being so excellent especially with the quality of side content and dungeons to explore that I dragged myself through the bad combat system. I may sound very harsh in this review but it is mainly because this one part of the game being implemented so badly ruins otherwise excellent experience. Still recommended.
I've been thinking about Phoenotopia for years, and I haven't written a review because I haven't been able to express just how good the game is. I still can't. It's the best. Enough said. But I can tell you there are some barriers to entry, and that a lot of folks bounce off of it. So instead of a review, here's what I think you need to know to about Phoenotopia to get into it. 1. Phoenotopia is not a metroidvania. It's maybe not even an action game, at least the way action games are made today. Rather, Phoenotopia is a love-letter to Zelda II. So it's largely linear, with areas connected by an overworld, and a handful of reasons to backtrack. You might call it a retro adventure platformer. And it controls like one too. Instead of bouncing around like a typical action hero, you'll have to proceed through areas carefully, with limited mobility options. This can feel constrained, because it is. But doing things despite those constraints feels great. And this extends to combat: 2. Phoenotopia does not have a typical combat system. The main character has many tools at her disposal, but she has her limitations too, and enemies have advantages she can't match directly. Which means planning for fights, taking advantage of what she can do, and avoiding getting into situations where even excellent play won't be enough. I mean, a lot of games say they do this, but this one actually does. It's a novel combination of familair parts, and nicely balanced, once you've adjusted. But, you have to choose to engage with that. And I do mean choose: 3. Phoenotopia was designed without a difficulty system. Yet, you'll be prompted to select a difficulty when you start the game. This is because players who were expecting a typically-empowered main character complained so much that the devs haphazardly added a way to remove the most hated inconveniences in the game. So each notch down the difficulty slider removes a core friction (stamina required to attack; time required to recover health; that sort of thing). This makes the game much easier, but mechanically shallow. And that's a shame, because each of those systems works together to create a tense, deliberate adventure. So I would recommend setting the difficulty to max. The result will be something about as hard as Ocarina of Time. I hope this helps anybody who likes what they see, but is unsure how to read the wildly conflicting reactions to the game. Phoenotopia is worth the trouble. It's a kind of trouble that's unlike many similar games, and it tends to drive folks off. But who knows? It might work for you. And if it does, it'll probably be one of your favorite games.
Overall solid game. I would recommend playing it. Combat has much more depth than I thought, and managing the stamina system is rough. Good enemy variety, and while there are a few different weapons late game, I had no problems just swinging the bat around. I actually liked that the game doesn't have any dodge/parry mechanic that is copy/pasted into too many games nowadays. Enemy variety is good overall, but heavily concentrated in their unique biomes. The bosses were fun to fight, but they are sadly few and far between. Huge number of NPCs to talk to. Plethora of side quests (some that don't even count towards 100%) The story itself is engaging enough to keep me interested, and the world building has much more depth than I thought it would at first glance. Personally I found the first 10 hours of the game to be a bit of a slog (specifically in Atai the desert city), and the last 10 hours of collection hunting was a bit of a pain (shoutout to the Oracle). However the middle 30 or so hours for me were really fun, especially the late game areas (everything past the wall).
This is gonna be a long review so bear with me... OR: TL;DR: Great game, story, puzzles, gameplay. But very hard with lots of annoyingly designed things. Weird first thing is the menuing. I wanted to start the game in english, as all games and selected english in Steams settings for the game. It still launched in german. After that I had to search for the button to change that option, because it doesn't just outright give you an optionsmenu, it just wants to throw you into the game. So I skip the entire intro, because I want to change settings, just to notice that it doesn't exist there either. So I had to check the forum. This is why instead of pictures, you need written text. I wanted to pick the cogwheel, which didn't open anything at all? It does now, after I've created a savefile, but did nothing at first. Because it didn't do anything, I didn't bother trying other buttons, I figured I would maybe need to have a savefile first. I also needed to immediately change the buttonlayout for my controller, because for god knows what reason, the default setting needs you to hit "X" (the left button), instead of "A" (the bottom one) to accept? What game does that? If anything, both buttons should work, or keep it like it is in all other games. Had to change that too, luckily that works in the options. Last thing right from the beginning. The game is incredibly loud! I Put it on 5% in the system and 20% ingame! In other games I can do 50%/50% or 20%/100% etc. Okay thats it for all the problems before the game even starts, now onto the actual game! It has a cute pixelstyle and plays mostly in 2d, but you move from place to place on a 3d map. After a short while, I noticed why the game has accept/talk on the left button, because if you put jump + accept/talk on the same button, you end up constantly talking to the npcs instead of jumping. Which could have been easily solved by not making accept and talk the same button. Usually 2d games use "dpad up" or "Y" (the top button) to talk. Thats really annoying sometimes, but still better than having to press X to confirm in menus. I must say, I reaaaally love the puzzles and how they utilize the environment, platforming, items and enemies! There are so many small little things to find and collect, but as it has metroidvania elements, you'll need to backtrack for about half of them.. maybe even multiple times, as you'll notice that there are still things you can't do once you decide to backtrack... The map itself isn't that big, but the way its built and how there aren't that many fast travel options, it feels huge! The game on its intended 5 star difficulty is actually unnecessarily difficult. Especially during boss battles. I remember the second boss already wants you to jump over his most basic attack, but your jumpheight is just barely enough to cover that. I had no choice but to heal my way through that one, as I only was able to time it right twice in a single fight. What annoys me about this, is that I do want to keep playing on 5star difficulty, but the game asks you after every single death, if you want to make it easier. No I do not. Stop being annoying and let me continue. It truly is a great challenge though and because of that it is good that the option exists. The player could change that anytime themselves if they wanted. So it could do without being reminded every single time. It also would have been great to simply get a "retry" option for bossfights, especially if these bossfights have a cutscene in front of them. That is way too much wasted time before you can go back into action. They are already incredibly tough and require you to sometimes move perfectly around them, don't make me lose my muscle memory from that, by stalling time from reloading, asking the question to make it easier, making me walk back and showing me the cutscene again. The game in general loads incredibly quickly. You can just spam the same button after opening the game, or going into the main menu by spamming the confirm button 5 times or something and you'll be back almost instantly. Why not keep that going inside the game? It feels awesome, give me more of that speed! In summary, this game on its intended difficulty is just so unnecessarily hard. Things always happen just a tiny bit too quickly. If the game gives you half a second to react, 1 second would be plenty and still feel like a challenge. It always feels like the game was meant to be much easier, but during testing the developer(?) got bored or too good at his own game and kept pushing the difficulty? Something like that. It feels like it would have been such an enjoyable experience if it weren't for everything being pushed so far. Granted, there ARE the options to make everything easier, but I like playing my games on the intended difficulty and it all feels very good. Its just that tiny bit too much, that pixel of a hitbox too big, that one point of too much damage, one projectile too much, that one enemy too much, that one jump too much, that one piece of a puzzle too far and the fact that you do not gain invincibility frames upon getting hit by lots of things... It ends up making things annoying instead of challenging fun. And it could really use a map. The game is much bigger than it seems, it has TONS of secrets scattered, even with guides, custom made maps and the wiki, it seems impossible to find everything. I did all the sidequests and things worthy to see, but I am not gonna run around a map that I can't check to try and find the last moonstones, hearts or energy crystals. Pretty late into the game, you can discover someone who can tell you where missing collectibles are to be found. If you had a map, it could just put a marker on the map for you to search that area, but as you have none, she speaks in a way that you might not even understand where to look. There is also another boss for collecting everything. It won't let you through to him if you don't have all hearts or energy crystals... and I just can't be asked to bother. I already went through the entire map multiple times, I will not do so even more times, it gets tedious. I will still rate it positively. I love the characters and how the world is built, how the dialogues change, how the story unfolds, the puzzles and secrets and just how much there is to explore and to collect! But because of all of these other things, I can not recommend this game for the masses, but if you can see past all those little annoyances, there is still a great experience and a nice game to be had! I definitely had fun, even though it has been annoying me a bunch of times!
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Phoenotopia: Awakening is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.
No, Phoenotopia: Awakening is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Phoenotopia: Awakening received 2,091 positive votes out of a total of 2,517 achieving a rating of 7.99.
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Phoenotopia: Awakening was developed by Cape Cosmic and published by Cape Cosmic and Flyhigh Works.
Yes, Phoenotopia: Awakening is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Phoenotopia: Awakening is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Phoenotopia: Awakening is not playable on Linux.
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No, Phoenotopia: Awakening does not support VR.
Phoenotopia: Awakening is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Phoenotopia: Awakening. Explore additional content available for Phoenotopia: Awakening on Steam.
No, Phoenotopia: Awakening does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Phoenotopia: Awakening does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Phoenotopia: Awakening is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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