Topic: Abyss Odyssey

[Xessive]

If you love MetroidVania style games and punishing difficulty, do yourself a favour and grab this.

It's a classic 2D sidescroller with 3D rendered characters but the combat feels more like a fighting game. It is frantic!

Here's a Destructoid review.

And here's a Let's Play:
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[Quemaqua]

Looks pretty cool. The art style is wonderful. Might have to check that out!

[Cobra951]

This game popped up on XBLA a few days ago.  They're selling it for $10, which when new, means they don't expect great sales.  May be a bargain.  I'll grab the trial version at some point, if I can ever tear myself away from AC4.  It does look intriguing.

[Cobra951]

I finally tried this.  I couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes.  It's a shamefully subpar effort, at least on the Xbox.  Rayman Legends sets the bar for how sidescrollers need to perform on this hardware.  Even the better indies like Dust: An Elysian Tail do the needed rock-solid 60 fps.  A stuttering 30 fps will never do.  It doesn't even look good when standing still.  Bleh!

[Xessive]

I finally tried this.  I couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes.  It's a shamefully subpar effort, at least on the Xbox.  Rayman Legends sets the bar for how sidescrollers need to perform on this hardware.  Even the better indies like Dust: An Elysian Tail do the needed rock-solid 60 fps.  A stuttering 30 fps will never do.  It doesn't even look good when standing still.  Bleh!

Stuttering? Seriously? That is bad. Practically inexcusable on a console.

It runs flawlessly on PC, solid 60fps when I have vsync on (which I rarely do).

[Cobra951]

I'm guessing they just didn't put in the effort into this port, perhaps because of the older hardware on its way out.  A quick and easy port, using some sluggish middleware?