{"id":3742,"date":"2024-02-16T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2023-12-29T16:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:41:44","slug":"video-game-deepest-sword-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/video-game-deepest-sword-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Deepest Sword (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2021
\nRating: E
\nTime Played: 41 minutes \/ 0.68 hours<\/p>\n

There are plenty of reasons I like Deepest Sword<\/em>. It\u2019s a simple gameplay gimmick with wide-ranging applications. It\u2019s a quick play-through that doesn\u2019t overstay its welcome. Most of all, it has a cute pixel art aesthetic and amusing dialogue for the dragon at the end of each level. There was a lot of love and care put into a game like this, and it shows. It almost feels nostalgic for the little freeware games I used to play growing up and I can half imagine it sitting on some floppy disk in my parents\u2019 basement.<\/p>\n

As a physics-based puzzle game, the challenge scales with the size of your weapon. Each level increases the length\u2014and by proxy the weight\u2014of the sword. After the first few levels, I was hooked. While it uses basically the same layout for each level, the limitations of my sword forced me into different paths that led to the dragon I was meant to slay. I quickly had to learn different techniques to move around the level, as the massive sword became more of a hindrance than an asset. Of course, this was not without its challenges.<\/p>\n

My only qualm with this game is that it didn\u2019t have the proper platformer \u201clead-up\u201d technique that\u2019s common for those kinds of games. A few of the puzzles stumped me and had to look up how to accomplish them. Some were only solvable by some very precise movements, others used techniques I hadn\u2019t considered using with the sword because there wasn\u2019t anywhere to learn or practice them before I had to use them. Still, despite this difficulty curve, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the solution before I finally gave up and looked it up.<\/p>\n

A cute and unique physics-based puzzle platformer, I give Deepest Sword<\/em> 4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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