Moreover, Normal wasn’t a good middle ground since enemies still deal far too much damage. Unfortunately, Hard is near-impossible except for the best players, and Easy strips away all challenge. In an effort to deal with this problem, the game offers three difficulty modes. Players who love pattern recognition will appreciate this approach, but the rest will likely grow frustrated and quit. The game rewards players paying careful attention to patterns, but punishes others with quick deaths. In this way, Momodora draws more than just its pixelated visual style from earlier eras of gaming - it also mimics their broken difficulty curves and poor design choices. Momodora’s first big challenge can deplete almost all of the player’s health with just a few attacks. This stiff difficulty extends to the game’s first boss fight, too. Bells act as both locations to save progress and as fast-travel waypoints once that ability has been unlocked. I eventually started skipping combat encounters and running between save points, which take the form of prayer bells. Momodora provides a healthy challenge, but sometimes this challenge feels excessive - respawning enemies, the overuse of poisonous bombs, darts, and gases, and the lack of health items early in the adventure meant that I ended up dying a lot during my first 30 minutes of playtime. These will prove increasingly important in order to stay alive against enemies that can kill players in a few hits.
In addition, players can find countless vitality fragments around the world that increase their maximum health. These abilities are acquired either by finding them in the world or purchasing them from NPCs using star points, which can be collected from chests and fallen enemies. To this arsenal players can add additional powers, up to two active (as in, manually fired off) and three passives at any given time, provided the player has acquired them in the first place. Players also use a magical leaf as a sword to slash at enemies, and a bow and arrow can be charged up to release three arrows at once. A roll lets players quickly get behind armored or shielded enemies. To accomplish these tasks, players have a number of base abilities like leaping chasms or reaching high platforms with a double jump. Players must collect power-ups and overcome bosses to arrive at the final confrontation. That’s as much story as is required, although it does introduce a slew of side characters and micro-narratives, none of which really convey anything meaningful or moving. In Momodora, players set out on an adventure as Kaho, a priestess who must rid the kingdom of an evil curse.
The end result is a solid but deeply flawed adventure recommended for fans of the aformentioned genres only. Unfortunately, it suffers from a lack of depth and a broken difficulty curve.
As a side-scrolling action game, Momodora features a vast, labyrinthine and interconnected world, countless bosses to defeat, a gothic atmosphere, and punishing difficulty. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is what happens when the Metroidvania and Soulslike genres meet. WTF Needing a hidden item to get the real ending. LOW Having to retry the same boss dozens of times. HIGH Taking down a difficult boss on the first try.
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