Buy Valdis Story: Abyssal City

Great metroidvania game with fluid gameplay, good challenge at higher difficulties, interesting art style and beautiful soundtrack.

Heartily recommended to fans of the metroidvania genre.

I liked this game at first. The idea, story, and gameplay are all great at first. After a while the graphics get to you. They aren't quite 16 bit and they're blurry. If you do 2x to try and improve them it just looks bad. The game should look much better than it does honestly. However that's not the part I really don't like about it. Given everything about the game I would rate this highly except for the squishy factor.

You start out super weak. You remain super weak throughout most of the game. It's crazy how OP some of the enemies are with powers that just destroy you in seconds. One bad hit can mean 80 damage and death. There's no blinking, no temporary invincibility when you take damage, so you just keep taking damage which just compounds the more enemies that are attacking you.

Bosses and sections of the game are super trolly. Some areas you're supposed to jump gaps on tiny moving objects while enemies are shooting projectiles at you. They aren't on the screen, so you can't do anything about it except hope that it doesn't happen because blocking doesn't work that great. As you progress you get better armor, items, and skills that make it easier, or so you would think. Only the bosses and enemies get more OP and more troll as you go.

I haven't yet finished this game because every time I pick it up something about it pisses me off. I always forget why I stopped playing and I always realize it's because the game is made to make you try again and again and fail over and over. This isn't the kind of game to have that play style and it just becomes a huge turn off. Maybe if leveling up didn't take forever, grinding wouldn't feel like some epic task that takes days. No matter what, I just realize this game all around was half ♥♥♥♥♥ in many ways.

this game is broken for me, it always lags and lose framerate i regret buying it

This game is possibly the best purchase that i have made on steam so far. The gameplay is extremely satisfying, the soundtrack is incredible and the game mechanics are awesome as well. The only problem that I initially had with is was the controls for it on mouse and keyboard, but the game allows you to remap the keys to your liking. I have a razor naga mmog mouse, which was perfect for my attacking and skill cancel buttons. Solid game overall and I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes platformer rpg games.

The best fantasy platformer I've seen in a long time. The game consists of a large map with a main storyline and various minibosses you may opt not to fight. This makes the game very replayable, if having a choice of four different characters, with at least three different weapons each, weren't enough for replayability. Enemies are characteristic of each area and they are somewhat varied with their own limitations, although the general inventory of enemies you will fight is somewhat small. Voice effects are a bit low quality, but sound effects and music are top notch. Gameplay and combat is very fast paced at times, and fighting enemies, is very enjoyable especially because the game seems to implement a good AI system. There are three factions and often times you will witness them clash and fight each other. Enemies don't necessarily adopt an obvious pattern to try to kill your character making some encounters somewhat of a challenge. The game includes a lot of other content such as an arena, a bestiary, lore, etc. Overall this is a great game and there should be more platformers like this. A++.

A very good game I can't recomend because it has too many small flaws that add up to too much major frustration. There is no world map, which is very necissary. There is nothing to remind you where you were supposed to go for your next objective if you come back after a break (it will tell you what to get but not where to go to get it). Little explanation about what items you can get in the game what they actual do or what they're for or how valuable they are. The spell system is awful, essentailly having 24 different spells 20 of which you will never use. UNTIL the end boss fight where you suddenly need to use them. Great design right there.

This game should be good, it has good pixel graphics, it has a fun combat system, interesting lore and characters but it chooses to be challeneging instead of fun. Bosses are more often frustrating than interesting. And by the time you learn the basics of the combat (that are necissary for it be fun) you're already half way through the game. By the time you really think about how you need to build your character it's already the end of the game.

I'm sure this game has some major appeal with hardcore fans, but for a general player, it needs some work. I know this isn't only me, you will notice only ~10% of people have completed the game. If you buy this be prepared to be the 90% unless you're a hardcore platforming/adventure/fighting game fan.

Good ♥♥♥♥ing Game

Awesome game, reminded me very much of SOTN.

This is one of my favorite games. I've beaten it several times at this point. It's not especially long, but there's plenty of content that will take multiple playthroughs to see. I wish it were more popular, mostly because I find myself going to the wiki to find something and realizing I know more about what should be on the page than what's currently there. So this game has officially gotten me into writing wiki pages =p. But that just show's how good it is. The story and gameplay are so good that I'm invested enough to want make sure the wiki is up to date and accurate. Putting that aside, there are 4 playable characters with multiple sets of weapons and armor to unlock and subsequently upgrade. All of the weapons are unique to each character and have they're own different stlyes of gameplay. I've played most as the ranged character and the 'mage,' which is kind of just a split between a ranged and melee character depending on what spell/skills you're using. The bosses are fun and challenging and you're ranked on how well you do against each one. You get rewarded based on what rank you get. [PSA: I played for 40ish hours before I noticed, but if you look at the bottom left and bottom right during a boss fight you can see the timer and combat rank %. The timer will show exactly how much time you have before you can no longer recieve S rank, Then A, and so on. The Combat % will go down each time you are damaged, but it will go back up every time you do damage to the boss. I think S on that is around 75-80%]. You can make builds out of 3 different skill trees for each character. Each tree focuses on Attack, Defense, or Magic. You max out at level 20 but there are ways of getting more stats and skills if you're determined enough. Even if you're not into challenging boss battles, I would still definitely recommend playing through a few times on the easier difficulties just for the story. Unfortunately, as far as I know right now, there are no plans for a sequel. Hopefully if the developer see's more interest in the game that could change in the future. So if nothing else, buy this so I can get a part 2.

Oh, and by the way, This is the first steam review I've written in several years that I've had an account. I just love Valdis that much.

I bought at full price and I don't regret a penny. The game mechanics reminded me of Castlevania Symphony of The Night. The combat was great and once you beat the game you can play with other characters. I love this game!!