Islets - Two Minute Review!

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Title: Islets
Summary: Iko is an aspiring yet hopeful warrior exploring the land and sky to reunite a series of floating islands. With his rickety airship, he must travel from island to island in order to reignite each one's magnetic core while fighting off the many adversaries standing in his way. Islets is a surprisingly wholesome metroidvania about making connections with the people around you. By reuniting the islands and befriending a cast of charming characters, the world expands and reveals new parts of each area for Iko to explore. Scour every nook and cranny in order to collect the many upgrades hidden around this world and face its numerous hidden challenges! There's also a tour guide to show you around, but you should be careful. The guy's got some really weird vibes...
Release Date: AUG 24, 2022
Rating: Rated E +10 for Everyone +10
Developer: Kyle Thompson
Publisher: Armor Games
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox Series X, Xbox One
Genres: Metroidvania
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“Islets” (pronounced: eye-lets) is a metroidvania game with a very strong platforming element. The game is set around five independent islands, where each has a magnetic core that, once discovered, brings the islands together and opens up new paths between the islands and unlocking new areas. The level design is smart, and its filled with hidden secrets and upgrades that reward exploration.
The controls are simple yet solid, with additional abilities unlocked as you progress. Taking about 8 hours to complete, the pacing is well-thought-out, providing a satisfying learning curve, and strikes a good balance between exploration, combat, and precision platforming. Combat is based around a sword and a bow, with arrows replenished through landing sword hits, forcing a balance between the two attack types.
It should be noted however that enemies and platforming elements are in general are easy and forgiving, with a low penalty for death. This unfortunately leads to large chunks of the game enemies can get repetitive and boring at times, especially given the large amounts of exploration and back-tracking needed across multiple islands. Also, despite the clever level design, it’s still a largely linear experience. The multiple bosses in the game do present a difficulty spike, but the game does provide an array of assessibility options are available including the ability to lower or raise the difficulty dynamically, so its impossible to get stymied.
Overall, its a very solid, well presented and charming game that does a good job of combining a lot elements. Unfortunately, the gameplay is lacking the polish needed to make it an essential purchase!

[@hoseinbebany]

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[@KELMA245]

bro when i play islets and go in settings i cant see my mouse so i cant do anything

[@KidTrigger]

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[@KELMA245]

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