Zapling Bygone
Zapling Bygone
Description (IGDB)
Murder bosses, collect and equip their skulls. A pixel-perfect platformer focused on exploration and hard but fair combat.
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Médias
Informations Steam
Description Steam (Français)
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls.
Every ability is gained by killing a boss and stealing their skull. These abilities allow you to transverse the world in new and exciting ways as well as help you destroy your opponents.
- Killing the Ratking allows you to wear his skull and use his ability to climb on walls.
- Killing an ancient manufacturing robot allows you throw his claw-head and use it to swing around the world.
- Killing The Protector allows you to use his power core to fire devastating laser beams.
Make every inch of the alien planet your playground as you learn its secrets and use them to your advantage. Take advantage of Zaplings sticky tentacles to fluidly jump and climb around the world.
Find game-changing mutations that modify and enhance your abilities, collect skull fragments that shine light on long dead civilizations. Trade plasma for ancient keys, forgotten secrets and weird paintings.
Explore a vast, dangerous and interconnected world with only you and your skulls as company. Reveal each biome in the world by collecting the skulls of people who lived in them.
Explore and conquer 6 biomes, each with their own enemies, bosses and backstory.
This includes:
- Ratqueen Gardens, an old mine that has been overgrown with monstrous plants and angry rats that are rampaging due to their kings untimely death.
- Grimtown, an empty shell of a fallen civilization occupied by people who have lost everything to a creeping virus that causes everlasting suffering.
- Mountain Path, a snowy inhabitable mountain littered with ancient technology built to protect the planet from alien invasion.
When wearing the skulls of your foes you will gain access to their memories and unlock comic strip panels representing major events in their lives. The skulls will even talk to you throughout your adventure.
Piece together the history of the planet, one comic panel at a time.
Learn how The Ratking gained his consciousness. How an ancient civilisation destroyed itself in search of a fake god. Figure out the repercussions of an alien virus that causes enteral life, and enternal suffering.
Piece together the events that occurred in a post-apocalyptic alien planet, and use its secrets to fight a fragment of your own hive.
Éditions et prix Steam
Avis des joueurs Steam
Petit metroidvania plutôt joli et sympa à jouer. Le lore est assez obscur, et ce qu'on doit faire et assez obscur aussi. Globalement agréable à jouer, il peut être frustrant sur certains passages de plateformes un peu (trop?) précis. Mériterait pe...
Even for a one-man-team game, it has way too many flaws to be recommended. Amongst which - the map of the area is hidden until you defeat the boss of that area, which can be very far from the entrance - the map only shows your approximate location, t...
Played 1h~ so far but this game is already really good and relaxing to play, cant wait to see what comes next in it :D
Mises à jour et Actualités
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Check out Moons Of Darsalon! Another game with a crazy passionate developer, 8 years in the making. Visually it's a beautiful 2d platformer with a blend of 2d and 3d yet somehow maintaining a really cool retro aesthetic. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39257891/53b7764871dcdc067cf3dacd6d3ed3a3bc4ed523.jpg The gameplay is what makes it really interesting, it's a "save-them-all" platformer where you complete rescue missions on alien planets. (I wonder if they ever ran into Zapling?) It has really fun physics and shooting too as well as the ability to manipulate terrain. There is so much more to it that I can't fit here, just go try it yourself. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1234180/Moons_Of_Darsalon/
1.1.2 Patch Notes
Swing now uses the correct keybind set in options. Comic achievement now triggers correctly. Underbelly boss has proper telegraphing on attacks. Fixed a typo in the backer credits list Added a method to enter Tomb Of The Rat Queen earlier. Enjoy!
Patch 1.1.1 - More squashed bugs
These are pushed to the unstable branch for testing. Will be added to the default branch in a few hours. Fixed: Directional Dash should work with DPAD. Updated a music track. Fixed a typo in the Greed mutation. Stopped the grimtown bosses intro track from looping endlessly. Reverted a previous fix that was unnecessary. (Thanks Night!) Stopped the Daddy Long Legs charm from creating endlessly long legs. Fixed a boss sounds from looping after death and being too loud. Fixed a crash that occurs when completing the game with Orbs mutation equipped. Fixed a crash that occurs when getting killed whilt talking to a skull. Zapling no longer goes black and white. UI stays in full colour to increase readability. Fixed an issue with the egg chaser bois breathing forever. More fixes and polish are on the way. These fixes are on the "unstable" branch on Steam, will push to the default branch once some testing is completed. Enjoy! -EDIT- This is now available to all players on the default branch.
Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« We want to spread the word: absorb more people into Zapling Bygone’s body. This is a gruesome Metroidvania that will make you gag, and we loved every flipping minute of it. Join the hive-mind. We dare you. »
« A metroidvania that breathes the genre and gathers all the elements that a good game should have. Give Zapling Bygone a try, after a few seconds, you’ll be hooked. »
« Zapling Bygone is not a memorable experience compared to some of the more well-known Metroidvania titles…However, even if it is somewhat derivative and unpolished, the story has enough charm and 16-bit art to make it a worthwhile experience. »
« While not overly difficult until the later chase section and boss fights, there’s just the right amount of challenge. Your first playthrough will probably take around six hours or so, more if you want to find every secret. While it didn’t grip me as much as I expected, it certainly has charm to it and definitely worth the play if you’ve been craving a new Metroidvania to check out. »
« Zapling Bygone is a cruel Metroidvania title. What's more, there are plenty of collectables on offer and a range of skulls to find. Consequently, it'll test your ability and keep you on edge throughout. My only annoyance is the sheer difficulty, and the lack of guidance can become frustrating. »
