The Shaman's Ark
Main game
2.00 average rating based on 1 rating
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Action
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How Long Is The Shaman's Ark?
Rhythm-based 3D Metroidvania
I kept waffling between "this game is pretty fun" to "this game is so dull" the entire time, but ultimately landed at the latter. The Shaman's Ark is a 3D metroidvania, using 2D sprites within a 3D environment (like Cult of the Lamb). You fight enemies using a rhythm mini game, sort of like guitar hero. Outside of combat, you are free to roam around the world and its 6 or 7 biomes, aiming for bosses and gaining abilities.
The game's art style is just soooo bland. Both the 3D world and the sprite work is just janky, unimaginative, and barely passable. The rhythm game was an interesting novelty, but it gets reallllly old. The game has an xp system, and you do have to grind to have any chance at later bosses, so you constantly have to play this minigame - and it never really switches it up.
The exploration was probably the thing that kept me playing. There are classic metroidvania type secrets and backtracking. Again, nothing really special, but passable.
Outside of that, that's pretty much it. The story is just generic and I really couldn't be bothered to read dialogue after a certain point. I got …
I kept waffling between "this game is pretty fun" to "this game is so dull" the entire time, but ultimately landed at the latter. The Shaman's Ark is a 3D metroidvania, using 2D sprites within a 3D environment (like Cult of the Lamb). You fight enemies using a rhythm mini game, sort of like guitar hero. Outside of combat, you are free to roam around the world and its 6 or 7 biomes, aiming for bosses and gaining abilities.
The game's art style is just soooo bland. Both the 3D world and the sprite work is just janky, unimaginative, and barely passable. The rhythm game was an interesting novelty, but it gets reallllly old. The game has an xp system, and you do have to grind to have any chance at later bosses, so you constantly have to play this minigame - and it never really switches it up.
The exploration was probably the thing that kept me playing. There are classic metroidvania type secrets and backtracking. Again, nothing really special, but passable.
Outside of that, that's pretty much it. The story is just generic and I really couldn't be bothered to read dialogue after a certain point. I got probably 80% through the game before realizing I was just not having fun at all, so I gave it up. It could have been a really fun game, but the developers just didn't have the skillset or the passion to really pull it off.