Here’s my experience with the game
This game looks great, pretty nostalgic for me, The intro part is pretty engaging (the part before you get the pendant) As far as I can see this game is pretty polished.
I’d say transform mechanic might be interesting, their charge and cost will make me think twice about when to use it.
After defeating the boss it moves onto level 1, I’m a bit surprised it didn’t heal me when I enter the new level though so I’m left with 2 hp, after a while I finally got a life potion so I drink it immediately.
Then after using the key to unlock the gate, level 2 start, and there’s a green goblin that shoots a projectile, that surprise me!, Its projectile is so quick that there’s no way to dodge it, I almost died have to bait it to shoot first before I can safely shoot back at it.
Then I proceed forward and there are even more enemies that can shoot! They shoot right through trees and walls There’s no way I can fight back! the octopus is kind of possible to dodge, but the green goblin is impossible, with 1 hp left I decided to transform into a magical girl, And then realize I can now shoot through the wall too, I can fight back now. I come across a pink door and grey door but I can’t open it, So I go back thinking I missed something, And I did! There’s a part with lots of octopuses, I’m a bit hesitant though, I only have 1 hp left, and I have no life potion but lots of soul potion, these octopuses can shoot through walls but I can’t? that’s not fair. I then use all the soul potion I have and barely have enough soul to transform and kill all octopuses. after that I got the pink key and proceed, turn out the pink door is also there, It turned out the path is connected, But I still can’t open the grey door, So I walk around for a solid minute, kill one pink slime and after some times later I come back to the grey door, This time there’s a key in front of it? where did it come from? after that level 3 starts.
Enter level 3 I still have 1 hp, but wait! the plant thing finally drop a life potion! thank god. I now have 4 hp. The octopuses there drop a lot of life potion what? I guess I’m just very unlucky on the last level, There are some octopuses that shoot fire, I’m playing way more cautiously now so their fast projectile never land on me, and then boss fight, green goblin there give me a bit of trouble but after killed them all, I transform and easily kill the boss with no effort
Conclusion: very fun game, I never play Arkista's Ring so I don’t know how closely this relates to that game but the gameplay does put me on edge all the time. I had fun all the way through,