Mym's Sword is a delightfully ominous Zelda-style action platformer with magic rings and knife-wielding raccoons

In funny Zelda-flavoured action-platformer Mym's Sword, you are a bluish canine who fell done a cavern extortion into a temple containing a magic sword. The dog's sanction is Nora. Who is Mym, then? Possibly immoderate benignant of past evil, which you are connected a quest to awaken, "for amended oregon worse".

To unlock the sword's secrets, you'll request to sojourn 3 twisty ruins, scattered crossed 5 areas comprising astir 300 azygous surface rooms. There are besides magic rings that confer boosts specified arsenic greater likelihood of a wellness bosom drop, but arsenic a digit-deficient canine, you'll request to cod "helper's hands" earlier you tin equip those rings. Gosh, that's a spot creepy. Bad dog?

Ugh, I can't find a trailer to exemplify each this. Instead, here's a clip of my beloved Mad Madam Mim. She's got much magic than Merlin successful 1 small finger.

Back to the videogame! Playing with a controller is powerfully advised. You leap with near trigger – your quality bounces a small connected landing, which adds immoderate weird but enjoyable clumsiness – and plaything the sword crossed 360 degrees with the close analog stick. Yes, having to manually swish and swack your sword is going to annoy a fewer players. As volition enemies leaping implicit your swings, successful a mostly top-down game. When you're slain, you'll person to trek backmost from the past checkpoint to reclaim your dropped weapon. Fortunately, it's casual to tally past oregon leap implicit a batch of the respawning opposition.

Myself, I'm wholly sold connected the energetic imprecision of the combat. I americium not a warrior, aft each - I americium a canine who recovered a sword. It's a wonderment I didn't widdle connected and hide the thing.

The demo gets a small much method past the opening moments. You conscionable a fewer blade-wielding racoons, for example. You tin disarm them if you clip your ripostes reasonably well, a interaction of Inigo Montoya successful a crippled of thwacking and flailing.

Mym's Sword recalls Zelda astatine its eeriest, the dead-end dreamlands of Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening (other inspirations see Ys and Tower of Druaga). The satellite does not retrieve you: each country resets betwixt visits, allowing you to retry puzzles instantly. Early enemies see slimes that duplicate a small little predictably than galore videogame slimes do. There are hidden stairways and portals each over, and statues that motion successful ways I expect volition go significant, a mates of dungeon completions from now. Enemies are often props: you tin bounce connected them to scope higher platforms.

Good stuff. It remains lone to accidental that this is from the developer of the superb Elephantasy games. Find the demo for Mym's Sword connected Itch and Steam. The afloat crippled launches aboriginal this year.